ESQUIMALT
The town of Esquimalt is distant three and one-hald miles from Victoria, and lies on a peninsula separating Esquimalt Harbor from the Royal Roads. Here are an arsenal buildings, where large quantities of naval and ordnance supplies are stored, a naval hospital, a dockyard and a powder magazine, the latter on an island in the northern portion of the harbor. Esquimalt has two churches, a public school and a number of business buildings and residences. Its advantages as the terminal for a railway are well known and appreciated, and will soon be utilized by the construction of the Island Railway.

Illustrated British Columbia, 1884