In the April of 1862, Victoria, British Columbia, was slowly recovering from what her inhabitants described as a serious "set back." From the position of a small Hudson Bay station she had suddenly risen in '58 to the importance of a city of 17,000 inhabitants, from which high estate she had fallen again with such rapidity, that in 1861 there were only 5000 left in her to mourn the golden days of the "Frazer River humbug."…
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