COAL MINES, NEAR VICTORIA, B. C.
The coal obtained at Nanaimo, although it burns rapidly, and is excessibley dirty, answers sufficiently well for steaming purposes, and is not likely to be soon exhausted. On Newcastle Island which, with Protection Island, form the shelter of the harbour, coal has been worked to a considerable extent, and found good. It has also been discovered cropping out on the Chase River, a few miles up the country, and further inland at a spot known as Pemberton's Camp.

Canadian Illustrated News, December 15, 1877