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Archival description
AC1-MAP-0002 · Item · [ca. 1974]
Part of Miscellanea collection

Includes lists of points of interest for Victoria, Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands. Components: [Greater Victoria : streets] -- [Downtown Victoria : streets] -- [Saanich Peninsula and eastern Vancouver Island, Victoria to Nanaimo : roads] -- Inter-island ferry routes.

Vancouver, Victoria
AC1-MAP-0012 · Item · [ca. 1961]
Part of Miscellanea collection

Includes street indexes. Components: Vancouver and vicinity. Scale ca. 1:48 000 -- Victoria and vicinity. Scale ca. 1:27 000 -- Approaches to Vancouver. Scale ca. 1:225 000 -- Approaches to Victoria. Scale ca. 1:180 000.

Vancouver, Victoria
AC1-MAP-0039 · Item · [ca. 1961]
Part of Miscellanea collection

Street maps. Includes street directories for Vancouver and Victoria. Components: Vancouver and vicinity. Scale ca. 1:40 000 -- Victoria and vicinity. Scale ca. 1:26 000 -- Approaches to Victoria. Scale ca. 1:184 000 -- Approaches to Vancouver. Scale ca. 1:225 000.

Survey field books
CoV-CR-0185 · Series · 1889-1973
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of various types of survey books, mainly field books, used by surveyors for making notes when determining elevations of land and locations of natural and manmade features of the landscape.

The field books contain notes on numerous topics such as land benchmarks (elevations), monument locations and topography, centerlines, flowlines, road straightening lines, and city boundary lines. In addition to the notes and measurements, many of the field books contain such information as diagrams, sketches, profiles, and drawings of various streets, sidewalks, buildings and waterways.

The “Description” column of the location list may refer to more than one numerical reference per book. In such cases, the first number in the description refers to a stamp on the cover of the volume apparently added by the Engineering Department sometime after the volumes were initially created. The description may also contain the name of the surveyor and the number he assigned the volume, separated by a dash. For example, "46; D.A. Rose - No. 5" refers to volume 46 in the overall departmental arrangement, which is D.A. Rose's personal book number 5.

Notes regarding topics of interest within individual volumes are located in the “Description” column of the list with in parentheses.

Victoria (B.C.). Engineering Department
AC1-MAP-0133 · Item · [197-?]
Part of Miscellanea collection

Includes street indexes. Components: Street map of the Saanich Peninsula and Greater Victoria, B.C. -- Street map of Langford, Metchosin, Sooke and vicinity. Insets: [Sidney, B.C.] -- University of Victoria building locations -- Street map of downtown Victoria, capital city of British Columbia -- Ferry and highway routes to and from Vancouver Island.

Road tax receipts
CoV-CR-0231 · Series · 1882
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of receipts issued for payment of yearly road taxes (one item only).

Victoria (B.C.). Finance Department
CoV-CR-0296 · Series · 1957-1969
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists primarily of photographs of street views and road and sidewalk construction. Also includes photographs of culvert installation, Garbage Wharf, temporary garbage dump at Mud Bay, refuse disposal methods, Point Ellice Bridge construction, Garbally Road Public Works Yard, Bowker Creek, City parkades, and the official opening of the Yates Street Fire Hall.

Photographs were probably taken by Public Works staff as a record of their activities.

Victoria (B.C.). Public Works Department
CoV-CR-0137 · Series · 1951-1961
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of an index to the minutes of the Public Works Committee (CR-0028) and to the Public Works, Lighting, Water and Harbour Committee minutes (CR-0043).

Victoria (B.C.). Public Works Committee
CoV-CR-0028 · Series · 1926-1962
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of minutes and papers dealing with all issues involving Public Works including construction, maintenance and replacement of streets, lanes, sidewalks, bridges, street lighting, civic floats and wharves, and all matters relating to highway access to the City and the regulation of signs on land and buildings owned by the City.

See also CR-0043, Public Works, Lighting, Water and Harbour Committee minutes (1951-1952).

There is a gap in this series from 1942 to 1952.

Victoria (B.C.). Public Works Committee
CoV-CR-0135 · Series · 1951-1961
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of an index to the Parks Committee minutes (CR-0107) and the Parks, Boulevards and Recreational Facilities Committee minutes (CR-0041).

Victoria (B.C.). Parks Committee
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.

CoV-CR-0215 · Series · 1951-1963
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of bylaws, notices to residents, correspondence, newspaper advertisements, and reports from the City Engineer and City Assessor regarding proposed local improvements such as sidewalks, curbs, gutters, and crossings.

All that remains of this series are the files for streets in the F-G alphabetical range. Specific streets included are Foul Bay, Frances, Gamma and Delta, Garden, Gladstone, Glasgow, and Gonzales

Victoria (B.C.). City Clerk's Office
Local improvement book
CoV-CR-0184 · Series · 1892-1912
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of reports from the City Engineer and City Assessor to Council regarding the cost of constructing permanent (cement) sidewalks together with statements showing the amount chargeable against the various portions of real property immediately benefited. Included also are plans describing the location of the works to be done, the length of time it is expected to last, the cost to the City, and the owners of the relevant properties. See bylaw 343.

The 1892-1906 volume consists of copies without plans

Victoria (B.C.). City Engineer's Office
AC1-MAP-0090 · Item · 1991
Part of Miscellanea collection

Shows prominent buildings, transportation facilities, parks and scenic drives. Includes street index and visitor information. Insets: Highway #14 scenic route : Sooke area -- Victoria and vicinity. Scale ca. 1:150 000 -- Locations at a glance -- Victoria by foot -- Vancouver Island -- Pacific Northwest.

Greater Victoria
AC1-MAP-0219 · Item · 2000
Part of Miscellanea collection

Shows streets, parks, cemeteries, golf courses, and significant buildings in Highlands, Saanich, Oak Bay, Victoria, Esquimalt, Colwood, Metchosin, Langford, and View Royal. Includes street index.

AC1-MAP-0234 · Item · 1984
Part of Miscellanea collection

Recto shows downtown including streets, points of interest, photographs of the areas, and brief descriptions. Verso shows a smaller map of Victoria that extends around downtown which includes points of historic interest, and some written history.

Victoria (B.C.)
City of Victoria, B.C.
AC1-MAP-0155 · Item · 1967
Part of Miscellanea collection

Diazo copy of street map with parks and playgrounds coloured and indexed. Streets are coloured to denote whether the boulevards are taxed or untaxed.

Boulevard maintenance ledger
CoV-CR-0159 · Series · 1914-1916
Part of City of Victoria fonds

Series consists of a ledger documenting boulevard maintenance taxes.

These taxes were collected in accordance to By-law No. 956 which states that 'for the purpose of providing annually the required sum to defray the cost of maintenance and upkeep of the boulevards on all streets in the City now and hereafter to be boulevarded there is hereby assessed upon the real property and portions of real property fronting upon any boulevard now or hereafter constructed, and there shall be levied and collected in each year an annual rate of four-fifths of a cent. per square foot of the area included in such boulevards.' Ledger consists of a calculation of street frontage, legal description of the property, and rates by year.

Victoria (B.C.). Finance Department