VICTORIA, V. I. - JAMES BAY BRIDGE
Besides a roadstead having good holding ground, the port of Victoria consists of an outer and an inner harbour. These united present a frontage of three quarters of a mile long, with a depth of water, at low tide, beginning with 8 feet at the south end of James's Bay and increasing readily to more than 25 feet at the north end.

Matthew Macfic, Vancouver Island and British Columbia, 1865