RBCM Archives

A frame building on Vancouver Island.

Angela College, The Ladies Seminary, Victoria, B.C.

Camp of Victoria Rifles. August 1870

Esquimalt Harbour, Vancouver Island.

Esquimalt, V.I. [Vancouver Island].

Fort Street, Victoria, BC.

Four logs used as the first Gorge Bridge, built over Victoria Arm by Rod Finlayson in 1850.

[Francis Jones Barnard's residence, the "Duvals" on Rockland Avenue, Victoria.]

Government House (north view).

Government House, Victoria, B.C. (south view).

Government Street Victoria V.I. [Vancouver Island]

Herring's [sic] drying - Rush hut - fish spears - Indian woman cooking etc.. Chinook canoes. Esquimalt Harbour. V. Island [Vancouver Island].

H.M.S. 'Malacca' (13 Guns); H.M.S. 'Sutlej' (35 Guns).

Indian canoes - Chinook shape - Vancouver Island. Belonging to the invited visitors to the great Potlach [potlatch].

Indian canoes (chinook shape) from the west coast of Vancouver Island, assembled by invitation in Victoria Harbour on the occasion of a great Indian Potlash [sic] - or giving away feast by the Songish tribe of Indians, who give.....

Indian distribution feast, or potlach [potlatch]. Bales of blankets, and fifteen hundred dollars were given away by different individuals to my knowledge.

Indian house. Songish [Songhees] Rancherie. Victoria V.I. [Vancouver Island].

Indian lodge Victoria Harbour. [Songhees village] These huts are built of slabs of cedar wood, which is durable and splits easily.

Indian Potach [sic] at the Songish [Songhees] Indian Village, Victoria Harbour. V.I. [On reverse in ink ]:Indian Potlach [potlatch] or "Great Distribution Feast" at the Songish Indian village Victoria Harbour Vancouver Island. [In pencil]: When hundreds of blankets, and many....