Edgar Fawcett’s reminiscences document life in Victoria, British Columbia, during the early colonial period — the gold rush era, the establishment of British settlement on the Pacific coast, and the society that grew up around the Hudson’s Bay Company trading post that became the capital of the Crown Colony of Vancouver Island. The memoir captures the character of a distinctive British community at the edge of empire.
As a personal record of colonial British Columbia in its formative decades, this book offers rare primary source material for the social history of British settlement in the Canadian Pacific Northwest. Download the free EPUB for these vivid recollections of early colonial Victoria.