"Gardens
and flowers were cultivated about the houses and in fact the country
became like and as civilised as any respectable village in England,
with the few, very few, upper ten leading..."
- Dr. J. S. Helmcken on early Victoria gardens, in Reminiscences of Doctor John
Sebastian Helmcken, 116.
Yard at J. D. Pemberton's Estate, Gonzales
Photograph Courtesy of the BC Archives, Call Number A-07780
