Editing Burwash Hall (section)

=== Bowles-Gandier House ===

==== Name ====
Bowles House is named after Victoria president and chancellor [[Richard Pinch Bowles]], the first-cousin once-removed of [[Lester B. Pearson]].

Gandier House is named after [[Alfred Gandier]], the first principal of [[Emmanuel College, Toronto|Emmanuel College]].

==== Exterior Design ====
[[File:LB-Plans.png|thumb|400x400px|Lower Burwash Hall Floor Plans (2007)]]
The very last house in Burwash Hall has a unique style to the other three Lower Houses. Rather than continuing the trend of Upper and Lower Houses in a straight line on the East side of the property, Bowles-Gandier House, colloquially "BG", juts out on the West side of the Southern edge of Burwash Hall. Enclosing the residence structure along the property line where Victoria meets [[University of St. Michael's College|St. Michael's College]], the house forms an L shape with the other three Lower Houses.

==== Interior Layout ====
Unlike Ryerson, Nelles, and Caven House—which are all identical in layout—Bowles-Gandier is the amalgamation of Gandier House and Bowles House, which operated independently until the 1995 renovations.

The floor plan for Bowles-Gandier varies from the other Lower Houses, with a significantly larger common room and two triple-bedrooms on the main floor: each with an in-suite kitchen and bathroom.

The Bowles and Gandier stairwells are connected by a hallway on the second, third, and fourth floors. Each of these floors has a shared kitchen, and two bedrooms at the end of each hall with a connected bathroom, much like the other Lower Houses. They also have two double-rooms in the middle of the hall, which have a connected bathroom and kitchen, meaning BG has the highest kitchen-to-student ratio in Burwash.

==== Vic One Program ====
Bowles-Gandier is sometimes referred to as the Vic One House, since it is mostly reserved for students in the [[Vic One]] program. While not a requirement to live in BG, it has historically consisted of > 80% Vic One students.