159
XX. Evolution of the Victoria Post Office 166
XXI. Fifty Years Ago 170
XXII. Forty Years Ago 174
XXIII. The Late Governor Johnson 178
XXIV. A Trip to a Coral Island 181
XXV. A Victorian's Visit to Southern California 183
XXVI. An Historic Steamer 199
XXVII. Colonel Wolfenden--In Memoriam 203
XXVIII. The Closing of View Street in 1858 206
XXIX. Mr. Fawcett Retires from the Customs 212
XXX. Some Colored Pioneers 215
XXXI. John Chapman Davie, M.D. 220
XXXII. The Beginning of the Royal Hospital and Protestant Orphan's Home 226
XXXIII. Victoria's First Y. M. C. A. 229
XXXIV. The Late Mr. T. Geiger 234
XXXV. Roster of the Fifty-Eighters 237
XXXVI. More Light on Closing of View Street 240
XXXVII. Bishop Cridge's Christmas Story 244
XXXVIII. Christmas Reminiscences 258
XXXIX. My First Christmas Dinner in Victoria, 1860 263
XL. Evolution of the Songhees 283
XLI. Victoria the New and the Old 288

ILLUSTRATIONS

Fort Victoria, 1859, Showing Fort St. Gate
Government Street, Looking North
Government Street in 1860
S. E. corner Government and Yates Streets, 1858
Lady Douglas
Sir James Douglas
Edgar Fawcett
Hon. Wymond Hamley
George Richardson
George Hills, D.D.
Henry Wootton
Capt. John Irving, Sr.
Quadra Street Cemetery
A Group of Early Legislators
Fort Street, Looking East
Yates Street, Looking East
Fort Street, Extending Through the Fort
Old View of Government Street
Government Street Before the Removal of the "Old Bastion"
Wharf Street, From Corner Fort Street Northward
Craigflower, Showing School, 1858
First Bridge O