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Departure Bay

Departure Bay

Item consists of a mount of two waterfront photographs adhered to card to create a panoramic view of Departure Bay, Nanaimo. Adhesive is unknown. The image includes a dock, buildings, and a small number of boats and ships. "Departure Bay" is written on the verso in pencil.
The sternwheeler on the left may be the S.S. Dakota. The ship on the right is the S.S. Abyssinia.

Copies of Admiralty correspondence related to British Columbia

This series consists of 125 pages of typescript copies of correspondence. The pages are numbered 98-223, and the location of pages 1-97 is unknown. The originals were created between 1858 and 1861. The correspondence is between various members of the British Admiralty, or between the Admiralty and government officials from the colony of Vancouver Island.

The correspondence relates to topics such as: the construction of the Esquimalt navy base, powder magazine and lighthouses on Southern Vancouver Island; the deployment of Royal Marines, Royal Engineers, ships and gun boats to and around Vancouver Island; fights between various First Nations groups and conflicts between Indigenous Peoples and settlers at Victoria, Nanaimo, Fort Rupert [Port Hardy] and Haida Gwaii.

Great Britain. Admiralty

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