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  • 2. Benefits of Sponsorship
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  • 5. Why Portholes?
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  • About the Project
    • Austina Parsons
    • Corporate Patrons
    • Readings
  • Albion Iron Works
  • An Urban Memory Project
  • Black Ball Ferry Line
  • Contact Us
  • Elements of a Porthole to the Past
  • Events
    • Athletics
      • Canoe Races
      • Dragon Boat Racing
      • James Bay Athletic Association 1886
      • Victoria Yacht Club 1892-1913
    • Disasters
    • Royal Visits
      • Royal Visit 1939
      • Royal Visit 1971
    • Smallpox
    • War
      • World War I
        • War Yukon
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    • Water Side Events
  • Fort Victoria
  • Goldrush
  • Greater Victoria Harbour Authority
  • Harbour Stories
    • Harvesting Nature
      • Fishing
      • Sealing
      • Whaling
  • Industry
    • Archipelago Marine Research
    • BC Soaps and BAPCO Paints
    • Boatyards
    • Brackman & Kerr Flour Mill
    • Breweries
      • Spinnakers Brewpub.
      • Victoria Brewing Company.
    • Capital Iron
    • Evans Coleman & Evans
    • National Electric Tramway & Lighting Co.
    • Panama Pacific Grain Terminal
    • Peetz Fishing Reels
    • Ralmax
    • Sawmills
    • Scott Plastics
    • Shipyards
      • Albion Iron Works
      • Laing’s Ways
      • McKay, Cormack Shipyard
      • Point Hope Shipyard
      • Small Shipyards
      • Victoria Machine Depot
      • Victoria Machinery Depot (VMD)
      • World War I Shipyards
      • World War II Shipyards
    • Tank Farms
    • Turner Beeton & Company
    • Turpentine Plants
    • Victoria Chemical Company
    • Victoria Coal Gas Company
    • Victoria Flour & Rice Mill
    • Victoria Machine Depot
    • WA Jameson Coffee Company
  • Layer Slider
  • Lifesaving on the Pacific Coast
  • Locations
    • David Foster Harbour Pathway
    • Harbour Statues
    • Hyak Terminal
    • Inner Harbour
      • British Columbia Legislature
      • Enterprise Docks
      • Greater Victoria Tourism & Convention Bureau
      • Imperial Oil Garage
      • Maritime Museum of BC Research Centre
      • Royal BC Museum
      • Steamship Terminal
      • The Canadian Pacific Empress Hotel
      • The Causeway
        • 02 1858 Black Migration
        • 03 Side Wheeler Isabel
        • 04 Captain W.E. Gardner
        • 04 H.M. Gunboat Sparrowhawk
        • 05 John Guzzwell
        • 06 George McGregor
        • 07 Captain William Blagborne
        • 08 Mt. Royal Rice Mill
        • 10 Brother Jonathan
        • 10 SS Juan Sebastian de Elcano
        • 13 Royal Victoria Yacht Club
        • 14 Yacht Belvedere
        • 15 Eric and Susan Hiscock
        • 16 Ketch Williwaw
        • 17 Schooner Pato
        • 19 Tzu Hang
        • 20 S.F. Tolmie
        • 22 Norman A. Yarrow
        • 25 CGS Estevan & Capt. Ormiston
        • 26 Quadra
        • 30 Captain Cavin
        • 33 Clipper Thermopylae
        • 34 William Turpel
        • 35 Tony Gooch
        • 36 “Scotty” Gall
        • 37 Otter & Harry Glide
        • 38 Sierra Nevada
        • 40 Beaver
        • 45 Marquis de Bute
        • 46 HMCS Karluk
        • 50 Tynemouth | Minnie Gillan
        • 55 Tory
        • 59 HMCS Rainbow
        • 60 Sisters of St. Ann
        • 61 USS Phelps
        • 65 HMS Warspite
        • 71 Robert A Laing
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      • The Fairmont Empress Hotel
      • The Inn at Laurel Point
      • The Place of Cradles
      • Wharf Street
        • Old Customs House
    • Lost Locations
      • Finlayson Falls
      • Islets and Saltings
      • James Bay
      • Major Bay
    • Middle Harbour
      • Fisherman’s Wharf
      • Fisherman’s Wharf Float Homes
      • Fisherman’s Wharf Park
      • Lime Bay
      • Shoal Point
      • Spinnakers Brewpub
    • Outer Harbour
      • Brotchie Light
      • HMCS Malahat
      • Kamel Point
      • Macaulay Point
      • Ogden Point Breakwater
      • Ogden Point Wharves
      • Rithet Piers
      • The Breakwater District at Ogden Point
      • Work Point
      • Work Point Barracks
    • Ship Point
    • Shoreline Transitions
    • Upper Harbour
      • Captial Iron & Metals
      • Chinatown
      • Point Ellice House
      • Princess Mary Restaurant
      • Rock Bay
      • Victoria Brewing Company
    • Victoria Street Names
    • Walkways
    • West Bay
      • Hidden Harbour Marina
      • Salish Seaside RV Haven
      • The Pink Dishrack
      • The Swallowed Anchor
      • West Bay Marina
      • West Bay Marine Village
    • Westsong Walkway
  • Microhistory
  • Nature
    • Climate
    • Ecological Recovery
    • Flora & Fauna
    • Geology
    • Hydrology
    • Macauley Point
    • Victoria Harbour Bird Sanctuary
  • old Locations
  • OLD People
    • The Haunted Harbour
  • People
    • Citizen Heros
      • Alexander Charles Garrett
      • Audrey Grimshaw
      • Bernard Brown
      • Bill Nye
      • Don Prittie
      • Drs. Wallace & Madeline Chung
      • Elizabeth Chambers
      • James K. Nesbitt
      • John Sanderson
      • John West
      • Nominate a Victoria Harbour Hero
      • Pre-war Japanese Victorians
    • Enterprisers
      • Bill Lang
      • Blayney Scott
      • Captain Joseph Spratt
      • Captain J.W. Troup
      • Captain John Irving
      • Captain Victor Jacobsen
      • Captain Victor Jacobson
      • Captain William Irving
      • Captain William Moore
      • David Butterfield
      • Eddie Hubbard
      • J.H. Tunstall & Billy the Kid
      • James Douglas Warren
      • James Trehay
      • James Yates
      • Kanaka
      • Marguerite Ethel Spratt
      • Michael Williams
      • Paul Arsens
      • Peter Skene Ogden
      • R.C. Janion
      • R.P. Rithet
      • Robert Dunsmuir
      • Robert Pim Butchart
      • Roderick Finlayson
      • Sir James Douglas
      • The Greene Family
      • W.A. Jameson
      • W.J. Pendray
      • W.P. Sayward
      • William Brotchie
      • William Turpel 1843-1926
    • Explorers
      • Archibald Menzies
      • Bruno de Hecata
      • Captain George Vancouver
      • Captain James Cook
      • Captain Robert “Bob” Bartlett
      • Henry Roberts
      • John Meares
      • Joseph Despard Pemberton
      • Juan de Fuca
      • Juan Francisco Quadra
      • Pedro de Alberni
      • Robert Gray
      • Sir Francis Drake
      • William Broughton
    • Harbour Creatives
      • Bill Reid
      • Bill Wolferstan
      • Dave Harris
      • Emily Carr
      • Francis Rattenbury
      • Fred Fredette
      • Harry Heine
      • Paul Kane
      • Robert Service
      • Sarah Crease
      • Ursula Jupp
    • Mariners
      • Captain Alexander McDonald
      • Captain Bill Noon CCGS
      • Captain John (Jack) Cox
      • Captain John Claus Voss FRGS
      • Colin and Julie Angus
      • Jeanne Socrates
      • John Guzzwell
      • Martyn & Margaret Clark
      • Peter Freeman
      • Stanley Berneche
      • Tony Gooch
    • Organizations
      • Boilermakers Lodge 191
      • Esquimalt & Victoria Working Harbour Society
      • Greater Victoria Harbour Authority
      • Hallmark Heritage Society
      • James Bay Neighborhood Assn
      • Mercy Ships Canada
      • S.A.L.T.S. Sail Training
      • Search & Rescue 35 Victoria
      • The Nauticapedia
      • Thermopylae Club
      • Veins of Life Watershed Society
      • Victoria Classic Boat Festival
      • Victoria Esquimalt Harbour Society
      • Victoria Harbour Master
    • The Esquimalt and Songhees Nations
  • Pioneer Steamship Line
  • Point Hope Maritime’s History
  • Quarantine
  • Rowing Boats
  • Sharing the Harbour’s Story
  • Sharing the Harbour’s Story test
  • Test Modial
  • Test Sidebar
  • Test Sidebar PopUp
  • The Harbour Air Story
  • The Harbour Ferry Story
  • Transportation
    • E & N Railway’s Victoria Terminus
    • Helijet International
    • Pacific Pilotage Authority
    • Rail
      • E&N Albion Yard
      • Victoria & Sidney Railroad
      • Victoria & Sidney Railway
    • Rail Transportation
    • RMS Empress of Japan
    • RMS Empress of Russia
    • Sea Transportation
      • C.P. Empress Liners
        • RMS Empress of China
      • Cameron-Genoa Mills Shipbuilders
      • Canadian Coast Guard
      • Canoes
      • Captain Moore’s Steamships
      • Dredging the Harbour
        • Esquimalt Nation
        • Songhees Nation
        • The City of Victoria
      • Ferries
        • B.C. Ferries
        • Black Ball Ferry Line
        • Clipper Vacations
        • Harbour Ferries and Taxis
        • Johnson Street Ferry
        • The Black Ball Story
      • Mable Brown Schooners
      • RMS Empress of India
      • Sailing Vessels
        • Clipper Thermopylae
        • Taonu
        • Thane
      • Shipyards
      • Steamboat Era
        • California Steam Navigation Company
      • Steamship Era
        • British Columbia Coastal Service
          • Island Princess 1913
          • Motor Princess 1923
          • Princess Adelaide 1910
          • Princess Alberni 1945
          • Princess Alice 1911
          • Princess Beatrice 1903
          • Princess Charlotte 1908
          • Princess Elaine 1928
          • Princess Elizabeth 1930
          • Princess Irene 1913
          • Princess Joan 1930
          • Princess Kathleen 1925
          • Princess Louise 1869
          • Princess Louise 1921
          • Princess Maquinna 1913
          • Princess Margaret 1913
          • Princess Marguerite 1925
          • Princess Marguerite II 1949
          • Princess Mary 1910
          • Princess May 1888
          • Princess Norah 1928
          • Princess Royal 1907
          • Princess Sophia 1912
          • Princess Victoria 1903
        • Canadian National Steamships
        • Canadian Pacific Navigation Company
        • East Coast Mail Line
        • Hudson’s Bay Company Steamships
        • Independents
        • People’s Steamship Company
        • The Beaver
      • Sudbury
      • Tugboats
        • Island Tug & Barge
        • Lorne
        • Swell
        • Warren Tug Co.
      • V2V Empress
      • Victoria Classic Boat Registry
        • Classic Vessels A – E
          • Dorothy
        • Classic Vessels F – J
          • MV Faranda
        • Classic Vessels K – O
          • HMCS Oriole (KC-480)
          • MV Messenger III
          • MV Nesika
          • MV Olympus 1929
          • North Star of Herschel Island
        • Classic Vessels P – T
          • S.A.L.T.S. Pacific Grace
          • S.A.L.T.S. Pacific Swift
          • S.A.L.T.S. Robertson II
          • S.A.L.T.S. Spirit of Chemainus
          • Tilikum
          • Trekka
        • Classic Vessels U – Z
      • Wrecks
        • 1881 Elizabeth J. Irving
        • 1885 Enterprise
        • 1890 Sardonyx
        • 1891 San Pedro
        • 1904 The Clallam
        • 1910 Princess May
        • 1918 Princess Sophia
        • 2007 Robertson II
      • Yachts
        • Dolaura (1908)
        • HMY Britannia (1954)
        • James Dunsmuir
        • MV Olympus (Junaluska)
        • Templar
        • Thistle
    • The Harbour’s Aviation’s Story
      • 1928 British Columbia Airways Disaster
      • 1966 Repatriation of Aviation to the Harbour
      • Alaska Washington Air Service of BC 1929-1930
      • Brackman & Kerr Wharf
      • Canada’s Busiest Seaplane Airport
      • Canadian Airways 1929-1932
      • Coastal Airways BC 1931
      • Consolidated Whaling Corporation 1921
      • End of Victoria as an Airmail Terminus 1945
      • Gerald Smith 1921
      • Gorst Air Transport and Barnes & Gorst 1927-1934
      • Harbour Air Seaplanes
      • Hubbard Air Service 1919-1927
      • The Causeway Tower and Beacon 1930
      • Vancouver Island Aerial Transport Company 1920-1921
      • Victoria’s Seaplane Service Moves to Esquimalt 1932
      • Westinghouse Airways 1946-1954
    • The Harbour’s Bridges
      • James Bay Bridge 1900
      • Johnson Street Blue Bridge 1923
      • Johnson Street E&N Swing Bridge 1889
      • Point Ellice / Bay Street Bridges
      • Rock Bay Bridge
      • Rock Bay Bridge 1880’s
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