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- CHAPTER IV.
VICTORIA'S FIRST DIRECTORY.
IN 1860 was issued the first directory of Victoria, Vancouver Island, by Edward Mallandaine, an architect, who continued to issue a Victoria directory at intervals for years afterwards. Through the kindness of Mr. Mallandaine, who is a pioneer of 1858, I am enabled to review this relic of early and interesting times, for those of us who remember them as " the good old times." I shall here give some of the author's " Prefatory remarks":
" It has been thought by the author of the following work that the present being an age of advancement, the period has fully arrived when our fair town of Victoria is of sufficient importance to deserve that index of commercial progress, a Directory. We have been reliably informed that about 35,000 immigrants from California and elsewhere have arrived, and have produced a most marvellous state of transition in the two countries [Vancouver Island and British Columbia.] A number of wharves have been constructed this past sea-son, a new timber bridge across James Bay has been built, giving access to the newly-erected Government offices for public lands and to Government House, which are of an ornamental character. Streets leading to the bridge have been graded and metalled over and are passable at all times. A temporary want
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GEORGE RICHARDSON,
Who built the first brick building May. 1858, cor. Government and Courtenay Sts., and known as Victoria Hotel.
HENRY WOOTTON Second Postmaster.
GEORGE HILLS, D.D.
First Bishop of Columbia, 1859.
CAPT. JOHN IRVING, Sr.
Pioneer Master Mariner of the Hudson Bay Co., 1858, and father of Captain John Irving (Commodore).
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