Province pocket road map of Victoria and surroundings

Bicycle trail map for Victoria and surrounding area for 1897. Shows the southern tip of Vancouver Island including the Otter, Sooke, Goldstream, Metchosin, Highland, Esquimalt, Lake, Victoria, South Saanich, and North Saanich Districts. Has numbered plots of land covering the districts and the roads and rail tracks throughout them. Manuscript notes on some of the plots of land indicate original owners. Includes relief marks showing the mountains and hills and red circles show the locations of hotels. Also includes a table of distances by road between particular points of interest. Places and features named include Sooke Harbour, Mount Harbour, Beecher Bay, Parry Bay, Mount Metchosin, Royal Bay, Esquimalt Harbour, Langford Lake, Saanich Inlet, Cordova Bay, Elk Lake, and Mount Douglas among many others.

In Collection:
Subject Publisher Language Identifier
  • Call Number: G3514.53 C3P2 1897 P7 (Special Collections)
Date created Resource type Rights statement Extent
  • 1 sheet : color ; 67 x 45 cm folded to 18 x 25 cm
Alternative title
  • "The Province" Pocket Road map of Victoria and Surroundings Compiled for the use of Bicyclists From the Government Map
Geographic Coverage Coordinates
  • 48.36633, -123.68592
  • 48.4359, -123.35155
  • 48.64964, -123.43593
Additional physical characteristics
  • Scale: 1:63360; Circles denote one mile distance from the New Post Office as the crow flies. Note: heavy vertical fold in original.
Physical Repository Collection
  • Frank and Cecilia Sylvester Collection
Provider Genre Date digitized
  • April 30, 2009 to May 4, 2009
Technical note
  • 600 dpi tif, Epson GT-15000 scanner, scanned by CDW. Metadata by KD.
Rights
  • Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original manuscript and for reproduction requests (speccoll@uvic.ca). Patrons may view the material through the Victoria's Early History Collection, but may not use images without permission of the University.
DOI

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