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A perfect 'Eden'
AC1-MAP-0223 · Item · [ca. 1842]
Part of Miscellanea collection

Shows different habitats, such as forests, plains, lakes, rocks and hills, that make up the southern tip of Vancouver Island. Inset: "Quadra or Vancouver Island".

Esquimalt Harbour
AC1-MAP-0026 · Item · 08 Sep. 1848
Part of Miscellanea collection

Shows depths by soundings and relief by hachures. Coburg Island (i.e. Peninsula), Gotha Point and Saxe Point noted.

Strait of Juan de Fuca
AC1-MAP-0107 · Item · 18 Jan. 1849
Part of Miscellanea collection

Shows depths by soundings and relief by hachures. Includes view of Cape Flattery. Inset: Continuation of Admiralty Inlet and Puget Sound.

Vancouver Island
AC1-MAP-0028 · Item · 1861
Part of Miscellanea collection

Shows Mayne Bay, Toquart Bay, Pipestem Inlet and Effingham Inlet. Depths shown by soundings, relief by form lines.

AC1-MAP-0139 · Item · Jan. 1863
Part of Miscellanea collection

Shows surveyed lots and prominent buildings. On edge of map: "The red lines designate the 20,000 feet of pipes to be laid down within a year from the passing of the Act. The promoters of the bill purpose [sic] laying the pipes through the whole of the streets of the city as required. [Illegible name], agent for the bill." These are evidently the lines of the Spring Ridge Water Works Company.

AC1-MAP-0005 · Item · Jan. 1863
Part of Miscellanea collection

Shows surveyed lots and prominent buildings. Note in ms. (on original): "The city boundaries as defined in the "Victoria Incorporation Act, 1862" are shown in red. Mohun & Farwell, L.S., Victoria, V.I., 9th Augt. 1866."

AC1-MAP-0109 · Item · 15 Oct. 1864
Part of Miscellanea collection

Shows streets, roads, buildings, cultivated land, depths by soundings and relief by hachures. Includes 2 views of approaches to Esquimalt Harbour.

AC1-MAP-0105 · Item · 15 Oct. 1864
Part of Miscellanea collection

Shows streets, roads, buildings, cultivated land, depths by soundings and relief by hachures. Includes 2 views of approaches to Esquimalt Harbour.

AC1-MAP-0045 · Item · 1884
Part of Miscellanea collection

Shows surveyed lots and prominent buildings. Lines and numbers added evidently to make this map a key to a series of maps. Beckley Farm and Douglas and Finlayson properties noted in ms. On verso in ms.: "Old key plans." Insets: [Victoria and Esquimalt Land Districts]. Scale [1:63 360] -- [View of Victoria looking west from Cathedral Hill].

City of Victoria sewerage
AC1-MAP-0154 · Item · [1888?]
Part of Miscellanea collection

Profiles of sewer lines along various Victoria streets. Contents: Sheet no. 1 : [Broad, Trounce, Constance, Discovery, Store, Johnson, Wharf and Humboldt Streets and Ross Bay Valley] - - Sheet no. 2 : [Rae, Amelia, Chambers and Cook Streets] -- Sheet no. 3 : [Quadra, Putnam and Vancouver Streets] -- Sheet no. 4 : Douglas and Blanshard Streets] -- Sheet no. 5 : [Farquhar, Mason, Harratt, Reginald, Bay, Discovery and Government Streets] -- Sheet no. 6 : [Vernon, Green, Pembroke, Princes and Queens Street] -- Sheet no. 7 : [Waddington, Herald, Pioneer, North Park, Gordon and Chatham Streets and north side of city jail] -- Sheet no. 8 : [Kane, Bellot, Cormorant, Jane, St. Louis, Alfred, Fisgard, Fell and Frederic Streets] -- Sheet no. 10 : [Meares, Commercial, View, Belcher and Yates Streets] -- Sheet no. 11 : [Church Way, Bastion, McClure, Rupert, Burdett, Broughton and Fort Streets] -- Sheet no. 12 : [Langley, South Park, Beechey, Collinson, Coutts, Pakington, Labouchere, Franklin, Richardson and Scoresby Streets] -- Sheet no. 13 : [Bird Cage Walk, Menzies, Oswego and Montreal Streets] -- Sheet no. 14 : [Toronto and Medana Streets, Dallas Road] -- Sheet no. 15 : [Niagara and Simcoe Streets].

Victoria, B.C., 1889
AC1-MAP-0058 · Item · [1889?]
Part of Miscellanea collection

Includes index of buildings and landmarks. Additional buildings and landmarks are located on the photocopy and on the overlay.