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Vancouver Island Biographies & Business Profiles, c. 1890s

This section features biographical portraits of prominent businessmen and sketches of leading firms and factories in Victoria, Nanaimo and other Vancouver Island communities. The material is drawn from J. B. Kerr's Biographical Dictionary of Well-Known British Columbians (1890) , R. E. Gosnell's A History of British Columbia (1906) and a promotional booklet entitled Victoria Illustrated (1891). The booklet, which was also published under the title Victoria: The Queen City, is available in a digital format in the University of Victoria Libraries' Digital Collections. It is linked with a selection of items on Victoria's Early History .

Thanks to Vanessa Claire and Samantha Keller for transcribing these viHistory records.

Name	City	Source
Albion Iron Works Limited	Victoria	History of British Columbia
Bate, Mark	Nanaimo	Biographical Dictionary
Bate, Mark	Nanaimo	History of British Columbia
Bossi, Carlo	Victoria	Biographical Dictionary
Bray, Marshall Bidwell	Nanaimo	Biographical Dictionary
Carne, Frederick, Jnr.	Victoria	Biographical Dictionary
Carne, Frederick	Victoria	History of British Columbia
Cowan, Thomas	Ladysmith	History of British Columbia
Davie, John C.	Victoria	History of British Columbia
Duff, Hon. Lyman C.	Victoria	History of British Columbia
Fletcher Brothers	Victoria and Nanaimo	History of British Columbia
Goodacre, Lawrence	Victoria	History of British Columbia
Gore, William S.	Victoria	History of British Columbia
Haslam, Andrew	Nanaimo	Biographical Dictionary
Hibben, James P.	Victoria	History of British Columbia
Hunter, Hon. Gordon	Victoria	History of British Columbia
Kurtz, John	Victoria	Biographical Dictionary
Leigh, James (and sons)	Victoria	History of British Columbia
Loewen and Erb, brewers	Victoria	Victoria Illustrated
Maynard, Richard	Victoria	History of British Columbia
McIlymol, James	Victoria	History of British Columbia
McQuade, Louis G.	Victoria	History of British Columbia
Meston, John	Victoria	History of British Columbia
Milne, Dr. George L.	Victoria	History of British Columbia
Morley, Christopher	Victoria	History of British Columbia
Muirhead, James	Victoria	History of British Columbia
Munro, Alexander	Victoria	History of British Columbia
Munsie, William	Victoria	Biographical Dictionary
Norris, Frederick	Victoria	History of British Columbia
Norris, George	Nanaimo	Biographical Dictionary
Northcott, William W.	Victoria	History of British Columbia
Paterson, James	Victoria	History of British Columbia
Pemberton, Frederick B.	Victoria	History of British Columbia
Pimbury, Edwin	Nanaimo	Biographical Dictionary
Prior, Edward Gawler, M. P.	Victoria	Biographical Dictionary
Quennell, Edward	Nanaimo	History of British Columbia
Robins, Samuel Matthew	Nanaimo	Biographical Dictionary
Ross, Harrie G.	Victoria	History of British Columbia
Sayward, Joseph A.	Victoria	History of British Columbia
Sayward, William P.	Victoria	Biographical Dictionary
Sears, Joseph	Victoria	Biographical Dictionary
Sehl, Hastie, Erskine Furniture Co.	Victoria	Victoria Illustrated
Sehl, John J.	Victoria	History of British Columbia
Shakespeare, Noah	Victoria	Biographical Dictionary
Shotbolt, Thomas	Victoria	Biographical Dictionary
Spratt, Charles J. V.	Victoria	History of British Columbia
Stemler, Lewis	Victoria	Biographical Dictionary
Teague, John	Victoria	History of British Columbia
Vernon, Hon. Forbes G.	Nanaimo	History of British Columbia
Weiler, John	Victoria	Biographical Dictionary
Yarwood, Edmund M.	Nanaimo	History of British Columbia
Yates, James S.	Victoria	History of British Columbia