Esquimalt & Victoria Harbours

Esquimalt & Victoria Harbours
Vancouver Island (subsequently part of British Columbia, now in Canada). Chart: 'Esquimalt & Victoria Harbours Surveyed by Capt. G. H. Richards, R.N., and the Officers of H.M.S. Hecate 1861-2…'. Reference table to batteries, emplacements and temporary works. Scale: 1 inch to about 1,000 feet. Compass roses. Drawn for engraving by E J Powell; engraved by Davies and Powell; published at the Admiralty, 15 October 1864; corrected to 1876. Insets: views of the coast, by H Adlard. Coloured MS additions show works, and proposed batteries and gun emplacements, with their ranges and fields of fire. [Esquimalt and Victoria, 1864; 1876; 1879]
Richards, G. H. (George Henry), Esquimalt & Victoria Harbours, 1862, Great Britain. Hydrographic Office, WO78-2311 (20). The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.4, ed. James Hendrickson and the Colonial Despatches project. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/wo_78-2311_20_esq_and_vic_harbours_1862.html.

Title: Esquimalt & Victoria Harbours

Title: North America, West Coast, Vancouver Island, Esquimalt and Victoria Harbours, surveyed by Capt. G. H. Richards, R.N., and the Officers of H.M.S. Hecate 1861-2.

Author: Richards, G. H. (George Henry)

Subject: Victoria (B.C.)--Maps ; Esquimalt (B.C.)--Maps ; Nautical charts--British Columbia ; Coast defenses--Canada--History

Subject: Esquimalt and Victoria, 1864, 1876, 1879

Identifier (repository): WO

Identifier (repoNumber): 78

Identifier (repoVol): 2311

Identifier (libFileName): WO78-2311 (20)

Identifier (penfoldNum): 459

Identifier (doc_id): WO78-2311 (20)

Date: 1862

Funder: Funded by a Canadian Council of Archives, Archival Community Digitization Program.

Publisher: Great Britain. Hydrographic Office

Publisher: National Archives of the UK.

Identifier (CONTENTdm): oai:contentdm.library.uvic.ca:collection5/179