To mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, commemorative events were held at the Victoria Armoury on Bay Street. The Society’s display featured Pte. Robert Burt Gilbert who joined the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles in Victoria and was with the 103rd Battalion at Vimy Ridge in 1917.
Mifflin Wistar Gibbs was a prominent citizen of Victoria, serving as a councillor and co-owned the retail firm of Lester & Gibbs, […]
Grafton Tyler Brown in his studio at the Occidental Hotel, corner of Wharf and Johnson street, Victoria B.C.,1883. Grafton Tyler Brown is […]
In 1865 the Davis Company was formed through a merger of the all-Black Harvey-Dixon Company and the all-white Davis Company. The new […]
John Craven Jones graduated from Oberlin College in 1856 and taught for two years in a one-room school for Black students in […]
