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- 158 REMINISCENCES OF OLD VICTORIA
Mrs. Jesse, and maybe a few others I cannot now re-member. Well, all things must come to an end, and so must this reminiscence of an " Early Christmas in Victoria," and in closing I wish all those mentioned here a " Happy Christmas and many of them."
(Note.?Several of those mentioned are since dead.--E. F.)
CHAPTER XIX.
THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY FORTY YEARS AGO.
THE reproduction of an item in the Colonist of " Forty Years Ago," giving a list of the committee formed to prepare a programme for the celebration of the Queen's Birthday, called my attention to the names of that committee. They are nearly all familiar. His Worship the Mayor, I think, was Mr. Harris, who was our first mayor; next follows Doctor Tolmie, chief factor of the Hudson's Bay Company; Wm. J. Macdonald, now senator; Lumley Franklin, was a prominent citizen, an English Jew. There were two brothers, the elder being named Selim. They were real estate broker? and auctioneers. Lumley was a clever amateur actor and as a member of the Victoria Amateur Dramati Association he took a prominent part in all the entertainments for charity in those days. John Wilkie was a Wharf Street merchant. Mr. W. T. Drake was the late Judge Drake; D. B. Ring was a prominent barrister, who, when not in court, might have been seen walking about with a couple of dogs and a hunting crop under his arm. He was one of the old school. Allan Francis, the first American Consul to Victoria, a man liked by everyone; James A. McCrae, an American auctioneer, and very fond of sport; Mr. T. Johnston was manager for Findlay, Durham & Brodie; James Lowe, of Lowe Brothers, Wharf Street, merchants; William Charles, chief factor of Hudson's Bay Com-
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