Victoria's Best Bargains

Sidney Allinson is a Victoria-based communications consultant, Canadian
news correspondent for Britain’s The Army Quarterly and Defence, and
the author of Military Archives: International Directory of Military
Publications and The Bantams: The Untold St

Everyone loves a bargain, and perhaps enjoys hunting for them just as
much. So this guide to the offbeat, the cheap, and the obscure places to
buy and dine around Victoria could be the key to getting your money’s
worth—no small achievement in a city with a new reputation for being
among the most expensive places in Canada.

To say that the authors have done their homework might be an
understatement, for they must have put in countless hours of research,
and maybe worn out considerable pairs of shoes, to compile this book:
they’ve managed to include bargain sources for nearly every taste.

Want to know where to buy good maternity wear cheap? There’s a
listing of eight places in Victoria. Like old books but want to avoid
those literary rip-off artists along Antique Row? Victoria’s Best
Bargains lists more than a score of reasonably priced second-hand
bookstores, as it does for every other conceivable kind of purchase,
from low-cost linoleum and discount earthworms to once-worn Paris
evening gowns and cheap places to get your car fixed, from little-known
charity sales and flea markets to cut-rate stores. The book indexes 12
pages of categories of bargain items available around Victoria. Not
least of interest are economical eating-places, rare finds in a town
notorious for costly restaurants. This book’s a bargain in itself.