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- 20 VICTORIA ILLUSTRATED.
RECAPITULATION.
ARRIVED. DEPARTED.
UNDER WHAT FLAG. No. Tons. Crew No. No. Tons. Crew No.
British Steamers 41 15551 657 53 19572 1044
British Sailing Vessels. 51 9741 701 68 9388 965
Total British 92 25292 1358 121 28960 2009
Foreign Steamers.... 930 786905 46004 885 783462 45492
Foreign Sailing Vessels 24 4245 176 12 2401 91
Total foreign 924 791150 46160 897 785863 45583
Total British & Foreign. 1016 816442 47538 1018 814823 47592
TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE.
At present the Canadian Pacific is the only service with the Mainland, but it is
expected that next year the Western Union will undoubtedly run their wires into Victoria.
BUILDING.
In this respect, Victoria is increasing with great rapidity. Last year, the expenditure on new
buildings alone, was a million and a half of dollars ; and this season the value of the buildings
erected will be far in excess of last year. Some of the public, as also, the private buildings of
Victoria, are imposing and worthy of the city. Among those may be mentioned the Provincial Government
Offices, Parliament Buildings and Public Museum, the Provincial Jail and Reformatory, the Law Courts,
City Hall, Jubilee Hospital, St. Joseph's Hospital, St. Anne's Convent, and many others. The number of
churches has within the last year or so been increased by the erection of several, whose superiors in
tasteful architecture cannot be found on the Coast. Prominent among these are St. Andrew's R. C. Cathedral,
the Pandora Street Methodist and St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. The city schools, too, are substantial
and well arranged buildings, in which every detail of a liberal education is care-fully looked after.
MANUFACTURING.
Many conditions have combined to make Victoria the manufacturing center of British Columbia. In addition
to her enormous financial prestige, her admirable situation and shipping facilities, outside of her large
and constantlyincreasing home demand, she stands in a central position to reach the world's markets as
cheaply as any city of the Northwest. The policy of the City Council has been, and is, to encourage in every
way possible with liberal aid the upbuilding of the manufacturing industries which are always the mainstay
of a city's population, and hence this industry is growing yearly in extent and importance. Al the head of
the list stand the Albion Iron Works, which are capable of casting a stove or building a steamship, and
possessing facilities superior to even the Union Works San Francisco. Following these are the Victoria
Rolle' Flour and Rice Mills, Brackman & Ker's large mills, just built, British Columbia & Victoria Soap Works,
Star. Union, Clyde, Foot & McDougal, Robinson, Jones, and McIntosh shipbuilding yards, several large furniture
manufactories, six breweries, two soda water manufactories, coffee and spice mills, a piano factory, carriage
boot and shoe and powder manufactories, brush works, stair building works, saw and planing mills, and sash
and door factories in great numbers, Vancouver Iron Works,harness and trunk factory combined with a tannery,
marble and granite works, shirt and clothing manufactories, pottery and terra cotta works, brick yards,
large bakeries, a large lithographing house, printing establishments, in addition to box, tin can, wire
works and match manufactories and a host of others too numerous to mention. Many of these industries will
receive full description later in these pages so that it is now only necessary to touch upon them. This list
will serve to illustrate that the manufacturing importance of Victoria is greater to-day than that of any
city of the Northwest ; and these industries have sprung into existence from a purely commercial
standpoint--because they would pay and thrive from the then existing demand. And, notwithstanding the
lavish outlays in this direction, the field is constantly increasing ; the markets of South America,
Australia, Japan, China, India and Siberian Russia are open to the manufactured products of Victoria,
which is nearer to them all (except to those of South America) than any city on the Pacific Coast ; and
in return this city can receive and does receive and manufacture
THE NEW VICTORIA PUBLIC MARKET. [Jno. Teague, Architect.]
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