CONTENTS

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I.[The Experiences of a British Boy in San Francisco in the Early Fifties]11
II.[Theatrical Memories]20
III.[My Boyhood Days in Victoria]26
IV.[Victoria’s First Directory]38
V.[Some Recollections of Victoria by One who Was There in the Sixties]57
VI.[A Little More Street History]68
VII.[The Victoria Gazette, 1858]73
VIII.[Victoria in 1859–1860]84
IX.[Fires and Firemen]92
X.[A Siberian Mammoth]100
XI.[Mrs. Edwin Donald, Hon. Wymond Hamley, Hon. G. A. Walkem]109
XII.[The Consecration of the Iron Church]115
XIII.[The Iron Church Again]121
XIV.[Its Departed Glories, or Esquimalt, Then and Now]124
XV.[Old Quadra Street Cemetery]129
XVI.[Pioneer Society’s Banquet]144
XVII.[Victoria District Church]149
XVIII.[Christmas In Pioneer Days]153
XIX.[The Queen’s Birthday Forty Years Ago]159
XX.[Evolution of the Victoria Post Office]166
XXI.[Fifty Years Ago]170
XXII.[Forty Years Ago]174
XXIII.[The Late Governor Johnson]178
XXIV.[A Trip to a Coral Island]181
XXV.[A Victorian’s Visit to Southern California]183
XXVI.[An Historic Steamer]199
XXVII.[Colonel Wolfenden—In Memoriam]203
XXVIII.[The Closing of View Street in 1858]206
XXIX.[Mr. Fawcett Retires from the Customs]212
XXX.[Some Colored Pioneers]215
XXXI.[John Chapman Davie, M.D.]220
XXXII.[The Beginning of the Royal Hospital and Protestant Orphan’s Home]226
XXXIII.[Victoria’s First Y. M. C. A.]229
XXXIV.[The Late Mr. T. Geiger]234
XXXV.[Roster of the Fifty-Eighters]237
XXXVI.[More Light on Closing of View Street]240
XXXVII.[Bishop Cridge’s Christmas Story]244
XXXVIII.[Christmas Reminiscences]258
XXXIX.[My First Christmas Dinner in Victoria, 1860]263
XL.[Evolution of the Songhees]283
XLI.[Victoria the New and the Old]288