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Robert Taylor Williams fonds
PR-0032 · Fonds · 1824-1954 (predominantly 1882-1934)

Fonds consists mainly of photographs of the Williams family, views of Victoria, and group portraits of City Council. Also includes material about the Williams directory of British Columbia, as well as miscellaneous family documents.

Williams, Robert Taylor, 1849-1934 (family)
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.

Ethel Bruce fonds
PR-0013 · Fonds · 1869-1966 (predominantly 1914-1966)

Fonds consists primarily of material related to Ethel Bruce's career as a journalist including newspaper clippings, concert and theatre programmes, invitations, pamphlets, maps, photographs, correspondence and picture postcards.

Bruce, Ethel, d. 1968
Victoria water supply
AC2-CD-01560-MAP-0120 · Item · [1872]
Part of City documents collection

Contents: General plan of district. Scale [1:31 680] -- Comparative sections of dams. Scale [1:1200]. Vertical scale [1:120] -- Reduced sketch of town distribution. Scale ca. 1:23 000 -- General plan of proposed works ; Section on line of pipes. Scale [1:15 840]. Vertical scale [1:1800].

CoV-CR-0337 · Series · 1873
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of Letters Patent to bring the City of Victoria under the Municipal Act of 1872, dated 25 January 1873, and Letters Patent to extend the boundaries of the City of Victoria, dated 9 May 1873.

Victoria (B.C.). City Clerk's Office
[Victoria, B.C.]
CoV-CR-0337-MAP-0048 · Item · 05 May 1873
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Schedule A of Letters Patent to extent the boundaries of the City of Victoria, 9 May 1873. Shows 1862 boundaries and extended 1873 boundaries.

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].

Dennis R. Harris fonds
PR-0026 · Fonds · 1885-1929 (predominantly 1907-1929)

Fonds consists of mainly of diaries, letters, bills and cancelled cheques documenting Harris's career as a surveyor. Also included are family photographs and a map of Victoria Harbour.

Harris, Dennis Reginald, 1851-1932 (family)