Map of the City of Victoria, Vancouver Island [1872]
PublicA detailed map of the city of Victoria and the District of Esquimalt drawn and compiled from surveys. The land has been divided into many numbered blocks of numbered plots of land with the names of the intersecting streets labeled. Many features and places have been named including a royal hospital, brewery, school reserve, new and old cemeteries, residence of Sir Douglas, a lunatic asylum, ferries, government buildings, a public park with a race course encircling Beacon Hill, piers, landings, "Indian" reserve, churches, bridges, and ship yards. The surrounding bodies of water, the points along them, and the islands within them are all named including Selkirk Water, Rock Bay, Victoria Harbour, James Bay, the Straits of Fuca, Holland Point, Ogden Point, Shoal Point, Pelly Islands, and Laurel Point.
- 106920
- LSV Number: 21T2VT
- 48.4359, -123.35155
- 48.43569, -123.41174
- Scale: 8 Chains = 1 Inch N.S. 1/6386
- Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia: Early British Columbia Maps
- Surveyor General of BC, Legal Surveys Vault
- February 24, 2012
- Cataloguing metadata: Provided by the LTSA and adapted by the University of Victoria Libraries to their requirements.
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- For permission to publish or otherwise reproduce, or to purchase a high-resolution digital file, please contact the LTSA at orderdesk@ltsa.ca. Reproductions must credit the LTSA as the source and cite the Surveyor General Vault map number or other unique identifier listed on this catalogue record.
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