HISTORY ARTICLES

This resource contains materials relevant to the history of Victoria and of British Columbia.

Materials have been extracted from publications, newspaper articles, published theses and other sources.

These materials are here for educational and research purposes only and, where copyright exists, full credit must be given to authors and sources.

Craigflower's Ghost
Amor De Cosmos, Journalist and Politician
From Colony to Province
Agricultural Resources of Vancouver island
The First Battle of Colwood - 1900
The Annexation Petition of 1869
Joseph Trutch, B.C.'s First Lieutenant Governor
The Camels are Coming
History of Vancouver Newspapers - 1892-1926
Booze and Bullets Flew in Days of Cliff House
Agricultural Resources of Vancouver island 1901
John Nugent, The Impertinent Envoy
Finlayson Gives First Report on Agriculture
Jean Thompsons Craigflower
Victoria Pioneered Electrical Development
Chinook Was the Last Word in Comfort & Elegance
The Fort Farms - Viewfield & Colwood
They Had Built Their Homes in a Wilderness
Old Homes & Families
Early Gas Stations in Victoria
Indian Participation in the Gold Discoveries
Education Before the Gold Rush
Granting Vancouver Island to the Hudson's Bay Company 1846/48
Post Contact Cultural Change Among the Lummi
Esquimalt Dockyards First Buildings
Appointment Of Governor Blanshard
Fire Companies of Old Victoria
History Articles/Memoirs and Documents Relating to Judge Begbie
Negotiations to Relocate the Songhees 1843 - 1911
Founding of Fort Victoria
The Governorship of Richard Blanshard
The McInnes Incident in British Columbia
The Oregon Treaty
The Trials & Tribulations of Edward Edwards Langford
The Diary of Robert Melrose
Cultivating Oysters in Esquimalt Harbour
The War Scare of 1854
Tourism to Victoria - 1868
The Building of the B.C. Legislature
The Career of HMCS Rainbow
First Nations Zouaves
The Second Battle of Colwood
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