Bishop Cridge's Christmas Story 244 XXXVIII. Christmas Reminiscences 258 XXXIX. My First Christmas Dinner in Victoria, 1860 263 XL. Evolution of the Songhees 283 XLI. Victoria the New and the Old 288 ILLUSTRATIONS Fort Victoria, 1859, Showing Fort St. Gate Government Street, Looking North Government Street in 1860 S. E. corner Government and Yates Streets, 1858 Lady Douglas Sir James Douglas Edgar Fawcett Hon. Wymond Hamley George Richardson George Hills, D.D. Henry Wootton Capt. John Irving, Sr. Quadra Street Cemetery A Group of Early Legislators Fort Street, Looking East Yates Street, Looking East Fort Street, Extending Through the Fort Old View of Government Street Government Street Before the Removal of the "Old Bastion" Wharf Street, From Corner Fort Street Northward Craigflower, Showing School, 1858 First Bridge Over James Bay, 1859 Government Buildings, 1859-60 May Day Parade, Hook and Ladder Company, May 1st, 1862 Hon. Sir Richard McBride, K.C.M.G. Old View of Douglas Street, Iron Church in the Distance Showing Inside of Fort from Wharf Street, 1859 Hon. Amor De Cosmos William P. Sayward Thomas Harris Bishop Garrett First Methodist Church First Bridge Over the Gorge, Victoria Arm Forty Years Ago, Queen's Birthday, Beacon Hill Colonial Hotel H. B. Co.'s Steamer _Beaver_ Part of View Street, 1859 Victoria District Church, 1859 Hon. Senator Macdonald Lt.-Col. Wolfenden, I.S.O., V.D. Wm. Leigh John Chapman Davie, M.D. Edgar Fawcett Captain "Willie" Mitchell Hon. Dr. Helmcken Gov. John H. Johnson, of Minnesota Samuel Booth Rev. Edward Cridge, 1859 Venerable Bishop Cridge Bishop and Mrs. Cridge at their Golden Jubilee A Park in San Bernardino Songhees Indian Reserve Bastion--S. W. Corner of Fort SOME REMINISCENCES OF OLD VICTORIA CHAPTER I. THE EXPERIENCES OF A BRITISH BOY IN SAN FRANCISCO IN THE EARLY FIFTIES.