I. The Experiences of a British Boy in San Francisco in the Early Fifties 11 II. Theatrical Memories 20 III. My Boyhood Days in Victoria 26 IV. Victoria's First Directory 38 V. Some Recollections of Victoria by One who Was There in the Sixties 57 VI. A Little More Street History 68 VII. The Victoria _Gazette_, 1858 73 VIII. Victoria in 1859-1860 84 IX. Fires and Firemen 92 X. A Siberian Mammoth 100 XI. Mrs. Edwin Donald, Hon. Wymond Hamley, Hon. G. A. Walkem 109 XII. The Consecration of the Iron Church 115 XIII. The Iron Church Again 121 XIV. Its Departed Glories, or Esquimalt, Then and Now 124 XV. Old Quadra Street Cemetery 129 XVI. Pioneer Society's Banquet 144 XVII. Victoria District Church 149 XVIII. Christmas In Pioneer Days 153 XIX. The Queen's Birthday Forty Years Ago 159 XX. Evolution of the Victoria Post Office 166 XXI. Fifty Years Ago 170 XXII. Forty Years Ago 174 XXIII. The Late Governor Johnson 178 XXIV. A Trip to a Coral Island 181 XXV. A Victorian's Visit to Southern California 183 XXVI. An Historic Steamer 199 XXVII. Colonel Wolfenden--In Memoriam 203 XXVIII. The Closing of View Street in 1858 206 XXIX. Mr. Fawcett Retires from the Customs 212 XXX. Some Colored Pioneers 215 XXXI. John Chapman Davie, M.D. 220 XXXII. The Beginning of the Royal Hospital and Protestant Orphan's Home 226 XXXIII. Victoria's First Y. M. C. A. 229 XXXIV. The Late Mr. T. Geiger 234 XXXV. Roster of the Fifty-Eighters 237 XXXVI. More Light on Closing of View Street 240 XXXVII.