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Victoria, Saanich and New Westminster Railway Company Fonds
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Victoria, Saanich & New Westminster Railway Company fonds

  • PR-2399
  • Fonds
  • 1881-1891, predominant 1889-1891

The fonds consists of the business records of the Victoria, Saanich & New Westminster Railway Company (VS&NW). The records document the failed attempts of the company to construct a rail and ferry link between Victoria and New Westminster and consist of meeting minutes, correspondence, financial records, lists of share holders, maps, by-laws, and various other business records. The records document exchanges between the company and engineers as well as the company and different levels of government (municipal, provincial, and federal), specifically in the company's attempts to secure funding. Amor de Cosmos was the founder of the company, however John Stuart Yates, the secretary, appears most frequently throughout the records.

Victoria, Saanich and New Westminster Railway Company