Some Reminiscences of old Victoria

Edgar Fawcett, american novelist and poet (1847-1904)

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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- DEICATION

-03- PREFACE

-04- A SHORT AUTOBIOGRAPHY

-05- THE EXPERIENCES OF A BRITISH BOY IN SAN FRANCISCO IN THE EARLY FIFTIES

-06- THEATRICAL MEMORIES

-07- MY BOYHOOD DAYS IN VICTORIA

-08- VICTORIA’S FIRST DIRECTORY

-09- SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF VICTORIA BY ONE WHO WAS THERE IN THE SIXTIES

-10- A LITTLE MORE STREET HISTORY

-11- THE VICTORIA GAZETTE 1858

-12- VICTORIA IN 1859 TO 1860

-13- FIRES AND FIREMEN

-14- A SIBERIAN MAMMOTH

-15- MRS EDWIN DONALD HON WYMOND HAMLEY HON G A WALKEM

-16- THE CONSECRATION OF THE IRON CHURCH

-17- THE IRON CHURCH AGAIN

-18- ITS DEPARTED GLORIES

-19- OLD QUADRA STREET CEMETERY

-20- PIONEER SOCIETY’S BANQUET

-21- VICTORIA DISTRICT CHURCH

-22- CHRISTMAS IN PIONEER DAYS

-23- THE QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY FORTY YEARS AGO

-24- EVOLUTION OF THE VICTORIA POST OFFICE

-25- FIFTY YEARS AGO

-26- FORTY YEARS AGO

-27- THE LATE GOVERNOR JOHNSON

-28- A TRIP TO A CORAL ISLAND

-29- A VICTORIAN’S VISIT TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

-30- AN HISTORIC STEAMER

-31- COLONEL WOLFENDEN IN MEMORIAM

-32- THE CLOSING OF VIEW STREET IN 1858

-33- MR FAWCETT RETIRES FROM THE CUSTOMS

-34- SOME COLORED PIONEERS

-35- JOHN CHAPMAN DAVIE MD

-36- THE BEGINNING OF THE ROYAL HOSPITAL AND PROTESTANT ORPHANS’ HOME

-37- VICTORIA’S FIRST YMCA

-38- THE LATE MR T GEIGER

-39- ROSTER OF THE FIFTY EIGHTERS

-40- MORE LIGHT ON CLOSING OF VIEW STREET

-41- BISHOP CRIDGE’S CHRISTMAS STORY

-42- CHRISTMAS REMINISCENCES BY HON J S HELMCKEN

-43- MY FIRST CHRISTMAS DINNER IN VICTORIA 1860

-44- EVOLUTION OF THE SONGHEES

-45- VICTORIA THE NEW AND THE OLD