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Some Reminiscences of Old Victoria

by Edgar Fawcett

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  1. 1Dedication — Preface
  2. 2A Short Autobiography
  3. 3Chapter I — The Experiences of a British Boy in San Francisco in th…
  4. 4Chapter II — Theatrical Memories
  5. 5Chapter III — My Boyhood Days in Victoria
  6. 6Chapter IV — Victoria’s First Directory
  7. 7Chapter V — Some Recollections of Victoria by One who Was There in…
  8. 8Chapter VI — A Little More Street History
  9. 9Chapter VII — The Victoria Gazette, 1858
  10. 10Chapter VIII — Victoria in 1859–1860
  11. 11Chapter IX — Fires and Firemen
  12. 12Chapter X — A Siberian Mammoth
  13. 13Chapter XI — Mrs. Edwin Donald, Hon. Wymond Hamley, Hon. G. A. Walkem
  14. 14Chapter XII — The Consecration of the Iron Church
  15. 15Chapter XIII — The Iron Church Again
  16. 16Chapter XIV — Its Departed Glories, or Esquimalt, Then and Now
  17. 17Chapter XV — Old Quadra Street Cemetery
  18. 18Chapter XVI — Pioneer Society’s Banquet
  19. 19Chapter XVII — Victoria District Church
  20. 20Chapter XVIII — Christmas In Pioneer Days
  21. 21Chapter XIX — The Queen’s Birthday Forty Years Ago
  22. 22Chapter XX — Evolution of the Victoria Post-Office
  23. 23Chapter XXI — Fifty Years Ago
  24. 24Chapter XXII — Forty Years Ago
  25. 25Chapter XXIII — The Late Governor Johnson
  26. 26Chapter XXIV — A Trip to a Coral Island
  27. 27Chapter XXV — A Victorian’s Visit to Southern California
  28. 28Chapter XXVI — An Historic Steamer
  29. 29Chapter XXVII — Colonel Wolfenden — In Memoriam
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII — The Closing of View Street in 1858
  31. 31Chapter XXIX — Mr. Fawcett Retires from the Customs
  32. 32Chapter XXX — Some Colored Pioneers
  33. 33Chapter XXXI — John Chapman Davie, M.D.
  34. 34Chapter XXXII — The Beginning of the Royal Hospital and Protestant…
  35. 35Chapter XXXIII — Victoria’s First Y.M.C.A.
  36. 36Chapter XXXIV — The Late Mr. T. Geiger
  37. 37Chapter XXXV — Roster of the Fifty-Eighters
  38. 38Chapter XXXVI — More Light on Closing of View Street
  39. 39Chapter XXXVII — Bishop Cridge’s Christmas Story
  40. 40Chapter XXXVIII — Christmas Reminiscences by Hon. J. S. Helmcken
  41. 41Chapter XXXIX — My First Christmas Dinner in Victoria, 1860
  42. 42Chapter XL — Evolution of the Songhees
  43. 43Chapter XLI — Victoria the New and the Old

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