City of Victoria, B.C. Canada - Optometrists & Opticians for Prescription Eye Glasses & Eye-wear Repairs at Family EyeCare Centre on Yates St. · Discovery Optical on Fort St. · Inner Harbour Optometry on Douglas St.

"Total eye health care starts with your optometrist / doctors of optometry: Primary vision & eye health care · Eye examinations · Sunglasses · Children's vision · Contact lenses · Vision training · Corrective lenses & frames · Low vision treatment · Laser surgery consultation & follow up · Safety eyewear"

FAMILY EYE CARE CENTRE above Optometrists: Dr. F. Guy Stewart, D.O. & Dr. Judith LeRoy, D.O.
"The Latest Technology With Old Fashioned Caring"
749 Yates Street,
Victoria, BC V8W 1L6
[Handicapped / Wheelchair Accessible: eye examination rooms and display area & washroom-toilet are wheelchair accessible ]
Phone: (250) 383-2411
E-Mail: fec1@telus.net
Website: FamilyEyecareCentre.com

see customer appreciation photo of optical-glasses-eyewear dispenser Joni at work a Metrotown.info customer service award for professional, kind and friendly service to older boomer clients and their families.

Prescription Optical Eye glasses, sun glasses and eye-wear repair services - in downtown Victoria at Discovery Optical in air-conditioned comfort!

We believe in customer satisfaction, some of our people have been providing eye-wear-care for over 48 years.

DISCOVERY OPTICAL LTD.
766 Fort Street
(north side of Fort St. between Douglas and Blanshard)
Victoria, B.C.
Telephone: 250-361-2020

INNER HARBOUR OPTOMETRY CLINIC

Dr. John Poon, D.O.

· Eye health examinations & contact lenses
· Laser refracttive surgery consultations
· Saturday-Evening appointments available

Downtown Bay centre
116B - 1150 Douglas St.
Victoria, BC
Phone: (250) 920-0755

Canadian Schools of Optometry

Where do some of the optometrists in Victoria get their initial professional eye care training? Below are some of the universities and programs in Canada that offer programs in optometry, including:

School of Optometry University of Waterloo
Waterloo ON N2L 3G1
CANADA
www.optometry.uwaterloo.ca

"Our School [University of Waterloo, Doctor of Optometry Program] provides the only english optometric training in Canada."

" The School delivers an accredited, four year degree program leading to a professional Doctor of Optometry (OD). An extensive clinic program provides practical experience for students and health services for the public."

" Also at the School is an impressive program supporting research in Vision Science & Optometry."

Want to become an optometrist?

..... "New Requirement: applicants to the School of Optometry [Waterloo] in 2008 will be required to have 3 years of biomedical/pre-optometry courses. Please visit ..." www.optometry.uwaterloo.ca/prospective/index.html "
[quote from U. of W. School of Optometry website 2006.04.26]

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Other Victoria City Resources

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See also

B.C. Association of Optometrists

Victoria Opthalmologists - Opthamology: Cornea. Cataract & Retroactive (Eye) Surgery

B.C. Government's Ministry of Health Services