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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

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Fort Victoria, 1859, Showing Fort St. Gate Government Street, Looking North Government Street in 1860 S. E. corner Government and Yates Streets, 1858 Lady Douglas Sir James Douglas Edgar Fawcett Hon. Wymond Hamley George Richardson George Hills, D.D. Henry Wootton Capt. John Irving, Sr. Quadra Street Cemetery A Group of Early Legislators Fort Street, Looking East Yates Street, Looking East Fort Street, Extending Through the Fort Old View of Government Street Government Street Before the Removal of the "Old Bastion" Wharf Street, From Corner Fort Street Northward Craigflower, Showing School, 1858 First Bridge Over James Bay, 1859 Government Buildings, 1859-60 May Day Parade, Hook and Ladder Company, May 1st, 1862 Hon. Sir Richard McBride, K.C.M.G. Old View of Douglas Street, Iron Church in the Distance Showing Inside of Fort from Wharf Street, 1859 Hon. Amor De Cosmos William P. Sayward Thomas Harris Bishop Garrett First Methodist Church First Bridge Over the Gorge, Victoria Arm Forty Years Ago, Queen's Birthday, Beacon Hill Colonial Hotel H. B. Co.'s Steamer Beaver Part of View Street, 1859 Victoria District Church, 1859 Hon. Senator Macdonald Lt.-Col. Wolfenden, I.S.O., V.D. Wm. Leigh John Chapman Davie, M.D. Edgar Fawcett Captain "Willie" Mitchell Hon. Dr. Helmcken Gov. John H. Johnson, of Minnesota Samuel Booth Rev. Edward Cridge, 1859 Venerable Bishop Cridge Bishop and Mrs. Cridge at their Golden Jubilee A Park in San Bernardino Songhees Indian Reserve Bastion--S. W. Corner of Fort

SOME REMINISCENCES OF OLD VICTORIA