Some Reminiscences of old Victoria

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