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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.

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].

[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].

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].

PR-0025-MAP-0071 · Item · [1888?]
Part of Roland Banyard fonds

Shows Greater Victoria Region. Roads, buildings, property lines and vegetation are indicated. Relief is shown by contour, and soundings are in fathoms.

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.