The house, at 2616 Pleasant St. in Victoria, was built for Peter O'Reilly in 1861.
It’s one of the oldest remaining homes in Victoria, has two acres of heritage-designated gardens, the largest collection of in situ household items in North America and the longest remaining natural shoreline of the Gorge waterway.
Three generations of the O’Reilly family lived here, and the artifacts, furniture and documents they left behind give a real sense of how the Victorian gentry lived from early settler Colonial times. Peter O’Reilly was a prominent government official the time, most well known as B.C.’s Indian Reserve Commissioner, responsible for assigning reserve lands without treaty, between 1880 and 1898.The last O’Reilly to live here was Jack’s son John Windham O’Reilly, who was born at Point Ellice House, and took over its care after his father’s death in 1946.
What makes Point Ellice particularly significant, besides the fact it remains, is the home has more than 12,000 objects in its collection that were used by the O’Reillys over the 108 years they occupied the home. Asked how valuable the entire collection would be, Black answered “You can’t put a dollar value on things.”
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