Ft. Victoria archives from 1846 to 1850

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

Here is a newspaper spread with extracts from the day journal of Fort Victoria.  A look back at life on the West Coast eight years before the gold rush began.

http://www.timescolonist.com/Victoria+early+history+bursts+from+archives/6936967/story.html

[PJ Hardtack]

Great peek at the past. You can bet that then and after the Gold Rush began, Fort Victoria was an armed camp, with every Tom, Dick and Harry packing iron.

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

Here's more;

http://www.victoriasvictoria.ca/