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The STREETCAR

The RIDE

FIRST STOP: CHINATOWN

LAST STOP: The EMPRESS

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Credits

References

 

References

Photo Credit


Most images used on this site are courtesy of the British Columbia Archives and can be found in the Image Gallery except for the following:

The image used on the Welcome page and the image used for the banner are courtesy of Nick Russell.

The map used on the Chinatown page entitled "Location of Victoria's Chinatown, 1861" is courtesy of David Chuenyan Lai.



Video


Library and Archives of Canada, AMICUS No. 30901535.  Victoria and Vancouver Street and Harbour Scenes, William H. Harbeck, dir., Selig Polyscope Company for Hale's Tours and Scenes of the World, 1907.



Monographs

Baskerville, Peter A.  Beyond the Island: An Illustrated History of Victoria.  Burlington: Windsor Publications, Limited, 1986.

Ewert, Henry. The Story of the B.C. Electric Railway Company. North Vancouver: Whitecap Books Ltd., 1986.

Ewert, Henry. Victoria's Streetcar Era. Victoria: Sono Nis Press, 1992.
Lai, David Chuenyan.  The Forbidden City within Victoria: Myth, Symbol and Streetscape of Canada's Earliest Chinatown.  Victoria: Orca Book Publishers, 1991.

Reksten, Terry. Empress Hotel: In the Grand Style. Vancouver and Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre Ltd., 1997.

Roy, Patricia.  White Man's Province: British Columbia Politicians and Chinese and Japanese Immigrants, 1858-1914. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1989.