Index : Sir James Douglas Era Founded By James Douglas In 1843 146 Built On Site Of
Indian village, known as Camosun, 175; McNeill's exploration, 1837, 176;
Sir George Simpson's approval of the site, 176; Douglas examines
locality, 1842, and reports favourably, 176; establishment of fort at
Camosun approved, 176; advantages of the site, 177; Douglas sails, March
1, 1843, from Fort Vancouver with an expedition to establish the post,
177; lands at Clover Point, 177; site selected and building operations
begun, 178; fort and stockade completed, 179; Charles Ross in command
with Roderick Finlayson as assistant, 180; natives attack the fort, 182;
early shipping, 183; name of port changed to Fort Victoria, 183; visit
of frigate America, 183; American whalers touch at, for supplies, 184;
H.M.S. Constance arrives at Esquimalt, 184; visit of frigate
Fisguard, 184; surveying ships Herald and Pandora, 184; trade
gravitating from Fort Vancouver to Victoria, 184; farming operations,
185; dairying, 185; supplying Russian ports, 186; momentous events of
1849, final removal of chief emporium of company from Fort Vancouver to
Victoria, 188; Helmcken, afterwards Douglas's son-in-law, arrives, 189;
effect of gold discoveries, 189-190; coal mining, 190-191; the Hudson's
Bay Company and colonization, 192-195; early settlers of, 196-197; town
laid out in streets, 1852, 198; population in 1853, 198; during the gold
fever, 224-225; gold-miners boom the town, 225; population rises and
falls with the fortunes of the gold-fields, 271; proposed waterworks,
building of wagon roads, education, first newspaper, British Colonist,
1858, 271. =Bib.=: Walbran, British Columbia Coast Names; Begg,
History of British Columbia.