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- 96 VICTORIA ILLUSTRATED.
"THE TIMES."
Is an eight-page six-column newspaper, published by The Times Publishing Co., of which Mr. Wm. Templeman is chief owner and general manager.
It is a bright newsy evening paper, and admirably fills the field it occupies. It is Liberal in politics and in opposition to the present
Provincial Government.
THE HUDSON BAY COMPANY'S headquarters for the Pacific Northwest are located in Victoria, with Mr. R. H. Hall, M. P. P., in general charge.
The fur collections are sent to this point from as far east as the Peace River district, and then shipped to London The supplies for their
various posts in British Columbia and the Northwest Territory adjoining Alaska are forwarded from Victoria.
This point was adopted by the Company in 1842 as their chief post on the Pacific, when the Company removed from Oregon. Their premises on
Wharf street are spacious and contain a very large stock of all kinds of goods suitable for trading with both whites and Indians, their
wines and liquors finding a large market in the neighboring States. Formerly both wholesale and retail trade was catered to, but recently
the Company's management here have withdrawn from the latter and attention is paid altogether to wholesaling. The Hudson Bay Company's
and other sailing vessels annually bring direct from London their chief stock of heavy goods, wines, liquors, etc., and load return cargoes
of canned salmon. Their annual turn over of goods amounts to about a million dollars. Besides the large mercantile business transacted, the
Company have extensive real estate holdings in and near Victoria from which they constantly derive a handsome revenue.
THE DRIARD HOUSE, (REDON & HARTNAGLE, PROPRIETORS.).
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