Marinus Vesseur and his wife Mony are from the Netherlands and Germany respectively. Since neither country was home for both, they sought another, "neutral" place to call home. After studying the matter in detail they came to the conclusion that Vancouver Island ought to be the best place in the world for them. A lovely holiday on this here island in 2004 only served to confirm that such was indeed the case. It took little more than a year for both to immigrate and start a new, Canadian life, which they have not regretted since.


Based in Mill Bay in the picturesque Cowichan Valley, Victoria Translations is a small translation agency, specializing in technical and business subject matter, run by Marinus Vesseur, translator with a degree in both German and Dutch. Any editable documentation can be translated in-house into English, German or Dutch and many a software can be localized. We have access to an enormous network of freelance translators in most other languages to provide you with practically any translation a business may require.

We work with the latest version of SDL Studio, MemoQ and Passolo. Most editable file types can be handled, inluding InDesign, Quark Express, Publisher, PowerPoint, Excel, CorelDraw and many more.

Feel free to ask any question or send us a document for a quote or a short text sample for a free test translation.