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:
- Call Number: G3514.53 C3P2 1897 P7 (Special Collections)
- 1 sheet : color ; 67 x 45 cm folded to 18 x 25 cm
- "The Province" Pocket Road map of Victoria and Surroundings Compiled for the use of Bicyclists From the Government Map
- 48.36633, -123.68592
- 48.4359, -123.35155
- 48.64964, -123.43593
- Scale: 1:63360; Circles denote one mile distance from the New Post Office as the crow flies. Note: heavy vertical fold in original.
- Frank and Cecilia Sylvester Collection
- April 30, 2009 to May 4, 2009
- 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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