RBCM Archives

Wharf Street, Victoria

A-04656
Item
1858

Part of Archives visual records collection

Part of panoramic view of Victoria from Wharf Street. Note boardwalk and British Colonist building in foreground.

Corner of View and Wharf Streets, Victoria

A-03461
Item
1858

Part of Archives visual records collection

Part of panoramic view of Victoria from Wharf Street. Reid & Mcdonald General Store (corner Wharf and Vine) in foreground. Church spire in background.

Map showing the different routes of communication with the gold region or Frasers River

CM/A78
Item
1858

Part of Archives cartographic collection

The item is a colour map showing the routes in the gold region of the Fraser River, 1858.

[Two Figures Fishing In River - Goderich Area?]

PDP08278
Item
[1858]

Part of Crease family fonds

Golden Gate; Twenty miles from San Francisco; coastal California; cattle; the first house seen in California.

PDP08291
Item
1 Dec 1858

Part of Crease family fonds

[Canton, China] 1,2,3 Panoramic View of the heights from the Grand Parade Ground, on the right is the Marine Battery, very strong indeed, next to this mens huts occupied at present by Marines, through the gate is the palisades where you may see a Sedan stand and 1 or 2 Chinamen squatted on their hams, is the lower Magazine Barracks occupied by Sepoys . . .

E-00909
Item
1858

Part of Crease family fonds

[Canton, China] 1) Looking from the top of the barracks of the Marine Artillery on the side of Magazine Hill - House occupied by 1st battn. Royal Marines.

E-00910
Item
1858

Part of Crease family fonds

[Canton, China] 3. [Possibly part of the panorama referenced in HP078410]

E-00913
Item
1858

Part of Crease family fonds

[Canton, China] Nos. 6 and 7 take in the entrance to the Gardens, and part of the Main Building of which there are 2 inches (on paper) missing on account of a large tree, on turning to the right of No. 4 picture (the entrance where there is a blotch) and standing under the roof on the extreme left of (No.5) we get a view -

E-00916
Item
1858

Part of Crease family fonds

[Canton, China] 9. Gives part of the house where I stood when I photographed No. 8, near wh. spot are collected a group of Offrs. taking it easy and watching my proceedings - the man standing up, Reevely by name, is the Garrison theatrical genius and flanking him Williams and Crawford of ours, the trellis work in this picture is not bad -

E-00919
Item
1858

Part of Crease family fonds

[Canton, China] 11) Part of Joss House where 47th B.N.I. are quartered, the Chinese Inscription over gate is Sing-Chum-Sein. Sing is a literary joss, Chum his grandfather - Seing means House - look well at the roof and the small recesses on each side of the doorway. The figures are all brightly colored and glazed this Joss house is about as good a one as there is in the city - the black orderly in front I got to sit still by grinning at him

E-00922
Item
1858

Part of Crease family fonds

[Canton, China] 12. View in the celebrated Honam Temple taking in an old tree and the usual accompants. of Chinese blackguards, the Offr. at the foot of the tree is Capt. Budd R.M. L. I. My servant Hugh is to be seen standing on the right talking to the mob and exhorting them to look straight to their front, the coolie on the left is saying his prayers for pure funk he thinks it a Joss pigeon.

E-00924
Item
1858

Part of Crease family fonds

[Canton, China] 14) Mess of the Royal Marine Artillery and Pa-ta-sahu-pash Tartar Mandarin.

E-00927
Item
1858

Part of Crease family fonds

[Canton, China] 14) The new landing place from the pier, the third building from the right is the Post Office, the remainder Comr. Store Houses - under the tree on the left is the Telegraphic Station.

E-00928
Item
1858

Part of Crease family fonds

[Canton, China] 22) Arch just inside the entrance of the Pagoda of the 5 Genii.

E-00938
Item
1858

Part of Crease family fonds

[Canton, China] 31. [View over rooftops, possibly showing part of city wall on right]

E-00951
Item
1858

Part of Crease family fonds

[Canton, China] 26. [View of front entrance to a temple?]

E-00954
Item
1858

Part of Crease family fonds

[Canton, China] 16. [View of a bastion in the wall around the city?]

E-00958
Item
1858

Part of Crease family fonds

[Canton, China] 21. [View of houses and vegetable gardens]

E-00960
Item
1858

Part of Crease family fonds

Walter Chambers, step-son of W. P. Sayward.

G-03024
Item
1858

Part of Archives visual records collection

Captain Doane.

G-05498
Item
[1858]

Part of Archives visual records collection

Mrs. Thomas Harris.

G-01056
Item
[ca. 1858]

Part of Archives visual records collection

J. N. Trickey.

G-05781
Item
1858

Part of Archives visual records collection

The 1858 mace of the Colony of British Columbia

B-08264
Item
1858

Part of Archives visual records collection

Item consists of one photograph of the makeshift mace used when the mainland colony of British Columbia was instituted at Fort Langley on November 19, 1858.