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Title: Some Reminiscences of old Victoria

Author: Edgar Fawcett

Release Date: July 13, 2008 [EBook #26048]

Language: English

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[Illustration: FORT VICTORIA, 1859.]

SOME REMINISCENCES

OF

OLD VICTORIA

BY

EDGAR FAWCETT

Toronto
William Briggs
1912

Copyright, Canada, 1912, by
EDGAR FAWCETT.

TO

Sir Richard McBride. K.C.M.G.

PREMIER, NATIVE SON AND PIONEER
THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED BY
HIS HUMBLE SERVANT
THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE

To My Readers:--

A preface is, as I understand it, an explanation, and maybe an
apology, for what follows. If such is the case, I must explain
several things contained in these "Reminiscences of Old Victoria" and
its pioneers. Had I not been laid aside with the typhoid some eight
years ago, it is likely I should not have thought of writing down
these early memories, but many know what convalescing after a
sickness is--how one longs for something new, something to do. I was
at this time at the seaside, and all at once decided to pass my time
in writing. Seated comfortably on the beach with my writing pad, I
commenced "A British Boy's Experiences in San Francisco in the Early
Fifties," and so have continued on from time to time during the last
eight years.

I have been much encouraged, by pioneers and friends, to gather the
result of these pleasant labors together, and I feel I have succeeded
in a very imperfect manner; but, dear reader, consider how little I
should be expected to know of book-making; therefore take faults and
omissions in the product of my labors _cum bona venia_, for
there are sure to be many imperfections. There are repetitions of
which I am aware, and have decided to let them stand, as I think they
fit in in each case. Had I been a man of more leisure I should not
have had to apologize for so many of these imperfections.

I have to thank Mrs. Macdonald,