Heathorn, William, bootmaker, three sons and three daughters.
• Heisterman, H., Exchange reading room, sons and daughters.
• Heywood, Joseph, butcher, wife and daughter.
• Hibben, Thomas Napier, widow, two sons and two daughters.
• Huston, Guy, gunsmith, two daughters.
• Irving, William, captain steamer Reliance, son and daughters.
• Jackson, Doctor William, three sons and daughters.
• Jungerman, J. L., watchmaker, daughter (Mrs. Erb).
• Jewell, Henry, sons.
• Leigh, William, second Town Clerk of Victoria, who held the position from about 1863, to the time of his death. He was in charge of Uplands Farm (1859) for the Hudson’s Bay Company, and under the supervision of Mr. J. D. Pemberton, built Victoria District Church, and as an amateur musician helped at charitable entertainments. Son in San Francisco, granddaughter in Victoria (Mrs. Simpson).
• Leneven, David, merchant, son and daughters.
• Lewis, Lewis, clothier, son and daughter.
• Lindsay, Daniel, son and daughter.
• Loat, Christopher, sons and daughter.
• Lowen, Joseph, brewer, widow, sons and daughters.
• Lowenberg, L., estate agent, a nephew.
• McDonell, R. J., captain, a widow.
• Mason, George, brickmaker, a widow.
• McKeon, William, hotel, wife, son and daughter.
• McLean, Alexander, son.
• McQuade, Peter, ship chandler, son and two daughters.
• Meldram, John H., two sons.
• Moore, M. (Curtis & Moore), widow and two sons.
• Mouat, William, captain Enterprise, sons and daughters.
• Nesbitt, Samuel, biscuit-baker, two sons.
• Nicholles, Doctor John, one son.
• Pitts, John H., son and daughters.
• Rhodes, Henry, merchant, sons and daughters.
• Sayward, William, sons.
• Sehl, Jacob, sons and daughters.
• Short, Henry, sons and daughters.
• Smith, John, carpenter, Mears Street, sons and daughters.
• Smith, M. R., baker, sons and daughters.
• Stahlschmidt, Thomas L., son.
• Stemmler, Louis, upholsterer, son (spice mills).
• Thain, Captain John, son and daughter.
• Todd, J. H., sons and daughters.
• Tolmie, Doctor W. F., sons and daughters.
• Waitt, M. W., stationer, widow and two daughters.
• Williams, John W., livery stable, widow and daughters.
• Woods, Richard, Government clerk, sons and daughters.
• Wootton, Henry, postmaster, sons and daughters.
• Workman, Aaron, daughters.
• Yates, James Stewart, two sons.
Many deaths since this list was made.
I must again repeat that this list of sixty-two may be augmented by others who were heads of families even at that time. I might take our own family for an example, although it does not prove the rule. It consisted of my father, mother and three brothers, and is represented in the directory by my father, Thomas L. Fawcett, and my eldest brother, Rowland W. Then, again, there is the Elford family, of father, mother, three sons and two daughters. This family is not recorded, and to-day there are two sons, John and Theophilus, and two married sisters.
Among the names in the list of those living now, but not recorded, is a son of Abraham Belasco, tobacconist of Yates Street in 1862, by name David. Those interested in theatricals (and who is not?) will recognize the name as the prominent theatrical manager of New York. I little thought when going to school with him at the Collegiate School, under Rev. C. T. Woods, that he would be so well known a character as he is to-day. In closing this reminiscence I would ask to be pardoned for any errors or omissions, for my memory will bear refreshing. I also must thank my old friend Dick Hall, and others, for names of early pioneers who have been left out of the directory.
Before closing this imperfect sketch allow me to offer a suggestion to the mayor and aldermen. It is that a portrait of Thomas Harris, the first mayor of the city, should be procured and hung in a prominent place in the council chamber, and this at the public expense. I think this would at least meet with the approval of the pioneers of 1862, when Mr. Harris was elected first mayor.
CHAPTER V.
SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF VICTORIA BY ONE WHO WAS THERE IN THE SIXTIES
On Wharf Street, from the corner of Fort, looking north to the corner of Yates, the buildings looked pretty much the same as now, being all built of brick, with the exception of the wooden one to the south of Sutro’s wholesale tobacco warehouse on the corner of Yates and Wharf. This wooden building was a saloon, kept by one who formerly had been a prominent man politically, that is prior to 1859. I think this building can be identified with the Ship Inn. The two-story brick block to the south, erected and owned by Senator Macdonald, was occupied by John Wilkie, one of the earliest of our wholesale merchants. The next corner was Edgar Marvin’s hardware store. Mr. Marvin and his son Eddie, who came from the States in 1864, will be well and favorably remembered by old-timers. He resided on Marvin’s Hill, at the back of St. Ann’s Convent. Next comes the building occupied by Henry Nathan, who was afterwards one of the early members in the Commons to represent Victoria City. He was an English Hebrew, and he and his father were prominent men and large property-holders in the city, and I have no doubt are so still. He is standing in the front of his office in the photo. I can well remember the day that Henry Nathan and the balance of the Victoria contingent left for Ottawa for the first time. They left on the steamer Prince Alfred from Broderick’s Wharf, in the inner harbor, and there was hardly a square foot of room on the wharf to spare, the crowd was so great. In fact, half of the town went to see them off, many locking up their business places to do so. In the front of the next store may be seen Thomas Lett Stahlschmidt, who represented the English wholesale firm of Henderson & Burnaby. Next to Mr. Stahlschmidt is James D. Robinson, who was bookkeeper for J. Robertson Stewart & Co., and who is a resident of this city to-day, just died. Skipping the next two buildings, we come to the auction rooms of a well-remembered business man, P. M. Backus, one of the two prominent auctioneers of that time; the other being James A. McCrea, spoken of by my friend, Mr. Higgins, in one of his intensely interesting stories of early days in Victoria. Both he and Mr. Backus were Americans, as were so many of our business men of that day. Next Mr. Backus is Mr. J. R. Stewart, just mentioned,
