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.



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