Initial Impressions Of Fort Victoria
"[I] saw the mountains of Vancouver Island away to the left or west. I then had not the remotest idea that I was looking at my future home, that on these shores my future lot shall be cast."
B.C. Archives
Roderick Finalyson
History of Vancouver Island and the Northwest Coast
A/B/30/F49.1
The weather is clear and warm, the gooseberry bushes growing in the woods beginning to bud."
B.C. Archives
James Douglas's Diary
A/B/40/D75.4
" Vancouver Island's journey's end, on a beautiful spring day April 1st 1855 anchoring off McCauley Point.
Victoria must have indeed presented a charming sight, with its beautiful tree, sloping banks of green, carpeted with flowers, the sight of these flowers being a bushel of wild (rainbe?), flowering currant, and the well known white lilies (dogwood and violets)."
B.C. Archives
Cridge Reminiscences
AddMss320/box 4/file#3
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