City of Victoria, 1863_2024

THIS IS A GEOREFERENCED FILE. A detailed map of the city of Victoria and the District of Esquimalt drawn and compiled from surveys. The land has been divided into many numbered blocks of numbered plots of land with the names of the intersecting streets labeled. There is a red line drawn down some of the streets with a note saying that "The red lines designate the 20,000 feet of pipes to be laid down within a year from the passing of the Act...". Many features and places have been named including a brewery, school reserve, residence of Gov. Douglas, government buildings, a public park with a race course encircling Beacon Hill, "Indian" village, gas works, churches, bridges, the railway, properties belonging to specific people, and ship yards. The surrounding bodies of water, the points along them, and the islands within them are all named including Rock Bay, Victoria Harbour, James Bay, the Straits of Fuca, Holland Point, Ogden Point, Shoal Point, Pelly Island, Coffin Island, Beaver Rock, and Laurel Point.