Description:

The Fire Insurance Plans (FIPs) from 1885 to 1916 are undoubtedly the best maps of Victoria for the period. Created by Charles E. Goad and Company to assist insurance underwriters in determining fire insurance risk these coloured maps show the developing...

Subject:

Local History and Architecture

Location:

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Resource Type:

Collection

Genre:

maps (documents) and historical maps

Description:

The Hudson's Bay Company had the exclusive right to trade with First Nations in what is now British Columbia throughout most of the Nineteenth Century. These 100 maps provide a graphic view of the development of the Province from 1842 until the 1860’s when the company’s...

Subject:

Local History

Location:

Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada

Resource Type:

Collection

Genre:

historical maps and maps (documents)

Description:

This digital collection includes scans of a selection of maps, sketches, tracings and notes created between 1846 and 1895 and held by the Surveyor General of BC. All relate to land use, landforms, and surface cover across the province of BC and record geographic features,...

Subject:

Local History

Location:

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada

Resource Type:

Collection

Genre:

historical maps and maps (documents)