Forgot to log it but the Salvation Army on Hillside @ Quadra closed permanently sometime last year
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Showing posts with label victoria. Show all posts
Wednesday, 21 January 2026
Thursday, 4 April 2024
Closure: Salvation Army Victoria downtown
The Salvation Army closed its downtown Victoria store on 23 March 2024. 3 stores in Saanich remain, as do stores in View Royal and Langford
Sunday, 18 December 2022
New Victoria shop: Burnside Boutique - Burnside Gorge Community Association
The Burnside Gorge Community Association has recently opened its Burnside Boutique thrift shop ar 350 Burnside Road East.
https://burnsidegorge.ca/burnside-boutique/
Open on Wednesday through Sundays at various hours.
Tuesday, 26 July 2022
Victoria closure: St. Andrew's Presbyterian
The thrift shop at St. Andrew's Presbyterian church has closed permanently.
Saturday, 27 February 2021
Victoria: Beacon Community thrift at Quadra - small move
The Beacon Community Services thrift shop at Quadra and Hillside moved south to 2644 Quadra at the end of January a few doors to slightly-larger premises. The new location also has off-street parking.
Saturday, 26 September 2020
Victoria: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Victoria Garage Sales UPDATE
The Victoria chapter of Big Brothers Big Sisters is holding sales of non-clothing items. Sales are held in the parking garage area of the offices at 230 Bay Street in Victoria West on a monthly basis.
The last sale for the year will be tomorrow Saturday 17 October, 10-14h.
Friday, 25 September 2020
Victoria Closure: Habitat for Humanity ReStore Burnside
Sometime in the past few months, Habitat for Humanity's Victoria chapter closed its 3rd location on Burnside Road (formerly occupied by a Home Hardware) that was newly-opened in the past 2 years.
Victoria Closures: St Vincent de Paul in Sooke and Saanich
Due to difficulties and challenges in the logistics of donation handling, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul has closed two locations; the ones in Sooke and in central Saanich (Keating Cross Road). The Society had close its shops in Victoria and Sidney a coule of years ago. The shops in Langford and Esquimalt remain for now.
https://www.ssvpvancouverisland.ca/news/posts/store-closing
Monday, 7 November 2016
Animal welfare
There are a number of animal welfare organisations that operate thrift shops. The SPCA doesn't really count as operating shops as the organisation licenses its name out to small operators in return for a cut of revenue. The Kelowna branch (or auxiliary) however does offer a monthly bazaar and lunch sale at the First United Church.
The SPCA has these franchise shops in Sidney, View Royal, Vancouver (2), North Vancouver, Surrey (Cloverdale), Richmond (Updated March 2017: Richmond has lost the smaller SPCA shop), New West and Port Alberni (updated 9 December 2016).
Other animal welfare shops include the Wildlife one in Vancouver, a horse rescue/welfare one in Langley, a cat one in Sidney (which also has an SPCA shop a street or two over). There is also a horse rescue on in Falkland but it has never been open whenever we've passed through.
The SPCA has these franchise shops in Sidney, View Royal, Vancouver (2), North Vancouver, Surrey (Cloverdale), Richmond (Updated March 2017: Richmond has lost the smaller SPCA shop), New West and Port Alberni (updated 9 December 2016).
Other animal welfare shops include the Wildlife one in Vancouver, a horse rescue/welfare one in Langley, a cat one in Sidney (which also has an SPCA shop a street or two over). There is also a horse rescue on in Falkland but it has never been open whenever we've passed through.
Saturday, 8 October 2016
Victoria West - VIew Royal and Esquimalt
Some of our better finds have been west of Victoria Harbour, a seemingly-richer place with lots of stock.
Immediately across the harbour in the mall encompassed by Bay, Wilson and Tyee is a small WIN. It has mainly clothes but some housewares and collectibles. Free lot parking.
Heading west on Craigflower just west of Tillicum (NW side) is a Saint Vincent de Paul. This one seems to have better a selection of housewares and collectibles. Decent prices. Free lot parking.
Continuing onto Island Highway just west of Helmcken is the View Royal Salvation Army which may be the best for collectibles and housewares in Victoria. It has a lot of stock. Lot parking.
Also out in View Royal in the mall off Admirals Road and Aldersmith Place (SW corner) is an SPCA though prices are pretty high. Free lot parking.
Vancouver Island thrft store listings
http://bcthriftshop.blogspot.ca/p/listing-of.html
Immediately across the harbour in the mall encompassed by Bay, Wilson and Tyee is a small WIN. It has mainly clothes but some housewares and collectibles. Free lot parking.
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| WIN Westside |
Heading west on Craigflower just west of Tillicum (NW side) is a Saint Vincent de Paul. This one seems to have better a selection of housewares and collectibles. Decent prices. Free lot parking.
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| Society of St. Vincent de Paul - Esquimalt |
Continuing onto Island Highway just west of Helmcken is the View Royal Salvation Army which may be the best for collectibles and housewares in Victoria. It has a lot of stock. Lot parking.
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| Salvation Army - View Royal |
Also out in View Royal in the mall off Admirals Road and Aldersmith Place (SW corner) is an SPCA though prices are pretty high. Free lot parking.
Vancouver Island thrft store listings
http://bcthriftshop.blogspot.ca/p/listing-of.html
Victoria
Probably the best place to thrift shop in B.C. as it seems to have the largest number of thrift shops for a given municipality, though greater Vancouver has more.
There seem to be only a few "chains", namely the Salvation Army, WINs (Women in Need), Saint Vincent de Paul and Beacon Community Services. There's also a good number of United Church thrift shops though we haven't visited any yet (very limited opening days).
The Salvation Army probably has the most thrift shops in Victoria though they do tend to be a bit expensive (bargains still to be had).
The big one is at the west end of Johnson Street. Quite a large selection but it is also fairly picked over. Very limited paid street parking and some free parkade parking but that's also limited.
On Hillside at Quadra (NW side) is one of the "suburban" stores. Usual SA. Free but somewhat-limited lot and street parking.
To the north and northwest, in what may be considered South Saanich are the stores at Quadra @ Hulford (NW corner) and Shelbourne and Cedar Hill Cross (SW corner, street access from Ophir). The Shelbourne store is bigger and has more selection but both are still interesting. Almost no street for the Quadra Street store and extremely limited lot parking. Decent amount of lot parking for Shelbourne.
Beacon Community Services has 2 stores in Victoria. On Pandora @ Douglas (SE corner) is a small store with mainly clothes but some housewares. Limited street parking. Opposite the Hillside Salvation Army (access from Quadra) is another small store. Small amount of everything. A little bit haphazard organisation. Limited free street parking. Only place where I've seen a tip jar for the volunteers.
On Yates (south side) between Blanshard and Quadra is a Saint Vincent de Paul. As with other downtown Victoria stores, it seems to be picked over (busy, poorer pool of donours). Limited paid street parking.
One of the "chains" in the province that only has a single store in Victori is Bibles for Missions. The store, on Government Street just north of Bay, is smaller than most of the other BFMs and a bit more expensive but they do have interesting items. Free street parking.
Nested in the "U" around Blanshard, Cloverdale and Oak is the sole Habitat for Humanity ReStore. It's a small store with mainly home reno wares.
Vancouver Island thrift store listings
http://bcthriftshop.blogspot.ca/p/listing-of.html
There seem to be only a few "chains", namely the Salvation Army, WINs (Women in Need), Saint Vincent de Paul and Beacon Community Services. There's also a good number of United Church thrift shops though we haven't visited any yet (very limited opening days).
The Salvation Army probably has the most thrift shops in Victoria though they do tend to be a bit expensive (bargains still to be had).
The big one is at the west end of Johnson Street. Quite a large selection but it is also fairly picked over. Very limited paid street parking and some free parkade parking but that's also limited.
On Hillside at Quadra (NW side) is one of the "suburban" stores. Usual SA. Free but somewhat-limited lot and street parking.
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| Salvation Army in Hillside/Quadra |
To the north and northwest, in what may be considered South Saanich are the stores at Quadra @ Hulford (NW corner) and Shelbourne and Cedar Hill Cross (SW corner, street access from Ophir). The Shelbourne store is bigger and has more selection but both are still interesting. Almost no street for the Quadra Street store and extremely limited lot parking. Decent amount of lot parking for Shelbourne.
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| Salvation Army on Quadra Street |
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| Beacon thrift shop on Hillside/Quadra |
The two Victoria WINs are at Pandora at Blanshard (SW side) and Cook Street at Park (NE side). They're mainly clothes-oriented but also have some housewares. Limited paid street parking. Paid for Pandora, free for Cook.
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| WIN on Cook Street |
On Yates (south side) between Blanshard and Quadra is a Saint Vincent de Paul. As with other downtown Victoria stores, it seems to be picked over (busy, poorer pool of donours). Limited paid street parking.
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| Bibles for Missions on Government Street |
Nested in the "U" around Blanshard, Cloverdale and Oak is the sole Habitat for Humanity ReStore. It's a small store with mainly home reno wares.
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| ReStore Victoria |
Vancouver Island thrift store listings
http://bcthriftshop.blogspot.ca/p/listing-of.html
Thursday, 22 September 2016
North and Central Saanich
The North Saanich area has thrift shops clustered in Sidney and Brentwood Bay. There are a couple of church shops spread around.
Near the north end at West Saanich Road (@ Clayton) is St John's United Church. The thrift shop is housed in a trailer so it's small but it does have nice items. Very reasonable prices. Lot parking.
The Sidney area houses over a half dozen shops, all between Beacon and Bevan avenues and spread between 2nd and 4th streets s very walkable. 3 are branches of Beacon Community Services and are divided into 3 shops. The 4th Avenue shop houses the furniture shop. On 3rd Avenue, adjacent to each other is the housewares shop and a clothes and other goods shop. Across 3rd from these two is an SPCA shop. Prices are quite high though. On 2nd Avenue is a Saint Vincent de Paul. Haven't found much of interest personally here. There's a pet rescue thrift shop across the street and an adjacent private one.
Free street and off-street parking though it gets busy.
Down in Brentwood Bay are spread 3 along West Saanich Road, all within 6-7 minute walk of each other. At the north end just south of Verdier is a Salvation Army shop. Small, a bit picked over and not much of interest to us. Prices high as per SAs in the area. Lot and street parking.
North of the NE corner of Wallace is a Beacon Community Services shop that specialises in clothes. The houseware shops is further south on the other side of W Saanich before Le Bure Place. It's also small but may have housewares of interest. Free lot parking.
Heading back to the highway on Keating Cross Road, one finds a Saint Vincent de Paul, a new branch to replace the closed one on Quadra in south Saanich (we found it but not sure if it is being renovated or converted into something else). It's small, and seemingly poor so not much of interest. free lot parking.
On special days, Saint Mary's Anglican church in Saanichton (Cultra west of E Saanich Road) has a parish sale in late September. We'll miss it but it's there.
Near the north end at West Saanich Road (@ Clayton) is St John's United Church. The thrift shop is housed in a trailer so it's small but it does have nice items. Very reasonable prices. Lot parking.
The Sidney area houses over a half dozen shops, all between Beacon and Bevan avenues and spread between 2nd and 4th streets s very walkable. 3 are branches of Beacon Community Services and are divided into 3 shops. The 4th Avenue shop houses the furniture shop. On 3rd Avenue, adjacent to each other is the housewares shop and a clothes and other goods shop. Across 3rd from these two is an SPCA shop. Prices are quite high though. On 2nd Avenue is a Saint Vincent de Paul. Haven't found much of interest personally here. There's a pet rescue thrift shop across the street and an adjacent private one.
Free street and off-street parking though it gets busy.
Down in Brentwood Bay are spread 3 along West Saanich Road, all within 6-7 minute walk of each other. At the north end just south of Verdier is a Salvation Army shop. Small, a bit picked over and not much of interest to us. Prices high as per SAs in the area. Lot and street parking.
North of the NE corner of Wallace is a Beacon Community Services shop that specialises in clothes. The houseware shops is further south on the other side of W Saanich before Le Bure Place. It's also small but may have housewares of interest. Free lot parking.
Heading back to the highway on Keating Cross Road, one finds a Saint Vincent de Paul, a new branch to replace the closed one on Quadra in south Saanich (we found it but not sure if it is being renovated or converted into something else). It's small, and seemingly poor so not much of interest. free lot parking.
On special days, Saint Mary's Anglican church in Saanichton (Cultra west of E Saanich Road) has a parish sale in late September. We'll miss it but it's there.
Tuesday, 20 September 2016
Langford and Sooke
In the western suburbs of Victoria are 6 thrift stores - 4 in Langford and 2 in Sooke.
The three normal thrift stores are located along Goldstream Avenue at Bryn Maur/Claude, well within walking distance of each other. Just off Goldstream on Claude is the Saint Vincent de Paul. It's a small shop with the usual assortment, with good prices. Street and lot parking.
On the other side of Goldstream in the back of a parking lot mall is the Salvation Army. Moderate size, it has the usual SA items. Prices a bit high but there are always bargains. Free lot parking.
Off in the back of the fancier mall a little bit east (other side of Bryn Maur) is the WIN thrift store. It's a small boutique with very nice things. Not much selection but what there is is nice. Good prices. Lot parking.
There's a small Habitat for Humanity ReStore hidden on Orono at Van Isle. It's a small store with mainly home reno items, as expected, but also a small assortment of housewares. Lot parking.
The small community of Sooke is surprisingly large (lots of schools) and can support 2 thrift stores. When we were last there, there was a Salvation Army and a Saint Vincent de Paul. The SA closed as a result of cost but the community quickly rallied and opened a community thrift shop acorss the road, and even closer to the remaining Saint Vincent de Paul both on West Coast Road.
The Sooke Community store is on the south side of West Coast Road just west of Otter Point/Murray Road (the only traffic light in the village centre). It's small but still has a nice variety of wares. Good prices. Free limited lot parking.
A bit further down on the other side of the street west of Shields is the Saint Vincent de Paul. In an office building of some sort, it is also small and has a variety of wares which seem to reflect a poorer pool of donours. Limited lot parking.
The three normal thrift stores are located along Goldstream Avenue at Bryn Maur/Claude, well within walking distance of each other. Just off Goldstream on Claude is the Saint Vincent de Paul. It's a small shop with the usual assortment, with good prices. Street and lot parking.
On the other side of Goldstream in the back of a parking lot mall is the Salvation Army. Moderate size, it has the usual SA items. Prices a bit high but there are always bargains. Free lot parking.
Off in the back of the fancier mall a little bit east (other side of Bryn Maur) is the WIN thrift store. It's a small boutique with very nice things. Not much selection but what there is is nice. Good prices. Lot parking.
There's a small Habitat for Humanity ReStore hidden on Orono at Van Isle. It's a small store with mainly home reno items, as expected, but also a small assortment of housewares. Lot parking.
The small community of Sooke is surprisingly large (lots of schools) and can support 2 thrift stores. When we were last there, there was a Salvation Army and a Saint Vincent de Paul. The SA closed as a result of cost but the community quickly rallied and opened a community thrift shop acorss the road, and even closer to the remaining Saint Vincent de Paul both on West Coast Road.
The Sooke Community store is on the south side of West Coast Road just west of Otter Point/Murray Road (the only traffic light in the village centre). It's small but still has a nice variety of wares. Good prices. Free limited lot parking.
A bit further down on the other side of the street west of Shields is the Saint Vincent de Paul. In an office building of some sort, it is also small and has a variety of wares which seem to reflect a poorer pool of donours. Limited lot parking.
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