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Topic: History of Victoria

	History of Victoria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aboriginal society in Victoria, having survived for thousands of years, was to be almost destroyed in a single generation after 1835.
		The first foreign military action by the colony of Victoria was to send troops and a warship to New Zealand as part of the Maori Wars.
		In 1901 Victoria ceased to be an independent colony and became a state in the Commonwealth of Australia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Victoria (2659 words)

	City of Victoria - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Constitutional history began in 1849 with the creation by the Imperial Government of the Crown Colony of Vancouver Island and on March 11, 1850, Richard Blanshard formally assumed office as Governor of the Colony of Vancouver Island.
		The life of the little community of Victoria, numbering 450 men, women and children in 1853, centered in the business of the Hudson's Bay Company until 1858 when gold was discovered on the mainland of British Columbia.
		With the Fraser Valley gold rush in 1858, Victoria grew rapidly as the main port of entry to the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia.
	www.city.victoria.bc.ca /business/about_his.shtml (1355 words)

	Victoria, MN - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Two families on the north side donated 30 acres of land for the church and at the suggestion of the southern faction, the church was named St. Victoria, a favored saint among three families from the south faction.
		Victoria Drive was the first road of great importance to Victoria and its settlers.
		Victoria parish was organized in 1855 and a log church and school were completed in 1858.
	www.ci.victoria.mn.us /history.htm (634 words)

	Victoria County History - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Victoria History of the Counties of England, commonly known as the Victoria County History or the VCH, is an English history project begun in 1899 in honour of Queen Victoria with the aim of creating an encyclopaedic history of each of the traditional counties of England.
		In general the histories begin with some details of the County as a whole, before surveys of each Hundred.
		The first volume was published in 1901 and publication continued slowly throughout the twentieth century but eventually ground to a halt.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victoria_County_History (211 words)

	Victoria Texas History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Victoria is the place where Texas history was written and the legendary Texas cattle industry began.
		Victoria was platted by Jose M.J. Carbajal and developed an early importance as a stop on the La Bahia Road, as a stock-raising center, and as a shipping center for the port of Linnville.
		Victoria continued to grow as a trade center, especially as Indianola became an important port of entry for both goods and thousands of immigrants who settled in the area.
	www.victoriatexasonline.com /history.html (522 words)

	History - Queen Victoria
		Born Alexandrina Victoria on May 24, 1819, in Kensington Palace, London, Victoria was the daughter of Victoria Mary Louisa, daughter of the duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld; her father was Edward Augustus, duke of Kent and Strathern, the fourth son of George III and youngest brother of George IV and William IV, kings of Great Britain.
		Victoria disapproved of the democratic reforms he enunciated, such as abolishing the purchase of military commissions and legalizing trade unions, and his powerful intellectualized method of argument.
		Victoria's popularity among all classes in British society reached its height in the last two decades of her reign.
	www.michaelcarloneil.com /queenvic/enqueenvic.html (874 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: VICTORIA COUNTY
		Victoria was among the original twenty-three counties established by the First Congress of the Republic of Texas on March 17, 1836.
		Victoria County served as a transportation, military, and supply center during the war, since its major town was on a branch of the Cotton Road, which provided access to guns, ammunition, medicine, and supplies from Mexico in exchange for crops.
		The Victoria Barge Canal was the outgrowth of the original Intracoastal Canal Association established locally in 1905; Congress did not authorize the construction of a barge canal, except for the dredging of the Guadalupe River, until 1945.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/VV/hcv3.html (3621 words)

	Royalty.nu - British Royal History - Queen Victoria and Her Family
		Victoria was so overprotected that she was not permitted to walk up or down a staircase unless she was holding someone's hand.
		It is highly doubtful that Brown and Victoria were actually lovers, although the queen's daughters jokingly called Brown "Mama's lover." His intimacy with the queen did not please Victoria's family, but Brown was indispensible to her, and remained her confidante for nearly twenty years.
		On the Trail of Queen Victoria in the Highlands by Ian Mitchell.
	www.royalty.nu /Europe/England/Victoria.html (3334 words)

	History of Victoria Hospital
		In 1899, when Queen Victoria asked that her Diamond Jubilee be celebrated by working for the sick and the poor, Hospital trustees felt that it was an appropriate time for the London General to construct a more state-of-the-art facility and change its name to Victoria Hospital.
		A keen interest in the care of cardiac patients meant that Victoria was the first hospital in the region to perform open-heart surgery.
		Victoria Hospital's life support services have been an integral part of the programs we offer for more than a quarter of a century.
	www.lhsc.on.ca /victoria/info/history.htm (836 words)

	Victoria Texas History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Victoria, the second oldest incorporated city in the state of Texas, is home to a rich and vibrant history dating back before the Texas War for Independence.
		Victoria's initial population was composed of forty-one Mexican families but soon it would take on the characteristics of a melting pot, attracting settlers from Germany, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Ireland, Lebanon and the United States.
		With their independence won, Victoria was recognized early on as community rich in deep-Southern traditions built on a foundation of wealth from farming and cattle ranching.
	www.gregspears.com /history/history.html (515 words)

	Victoria Police - History
		Victoria Police has a proud history serving the community of Victoria, building and nurturing a positive relationship with the public.
		Victoria Police history moves through the gold rush days, the brutal Kelly Gang era, the urban sprawl of the late 1880's, World War 1 and the Great Depression, followed by unemployment, demonstrations and strikes before the onset of World War II.
		Also, Victoria Police today could not function without the 2000 support staff and civilian experts in its ranks, working in areas such as finance, property development, administration, criminal records and forensic science. Support staff are a vital part of modern day policing and their work complements and supports the duties of police members.
	www.police.vic.gov.au /content.asp?Document_ID=308 (300 words)

	BBC - History - Queen Victoria (1819 - 1901)
		On her accession, the morale of the population was low and the monarchy was unpopular, but Victoria won the nation's hearts with her modesty and practicality.
		Despite his reputation, Victoria did everything in collaboration with her husband, and it was during his lifetime that she was most active as a ruler.
		Victoria never fully recovered from Albert's loss - he died of typhoid in 1861 - and she remained in mourning for the rest of her life.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/victoria_queen.shtml (631 words)

	History of Victoria, KS
		The first was Victoria, named after Queen Victoria, founded by 38 Scottish immigrants under the leadership of George Grant.
		George Grant remained in the Victoria area and was buried in front of the St. George Episcopal Chapel.
		Victoria's birth as a town site is closely tied to the construction of the Kansas Pacific Railroad through the area.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /towns/Victoria/history.html (548 words)

	Victoria Chinatown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It was the shortage of coal labour in Nanaimo that brought Chinese labourers to the city.
		However, by the summer of 1858, Victoria was a cluster of tents strung out in uneven rows, housing 6,000 immigrants.
		More important than their absolute numbers is the fact that their distribution became increasingly urban during the decade of the 1870s, with over a third of the population living in Victoria itself.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /generations/community/victoria.html (422 words)

	Victoria Mansion: History
		Victoria Mansion is an outstanding example of nineteenth-century American architecture and design.
		Victoria Mansion is considered not only his masterpiece, but also the finest surviving Italian villa style house in America.
		Victoria Mansion is the earliest known Herter commission, and the only one that is still intact.
	www.victoriamansion.org /hist.html (416 words)

	Victoria's History - a promotion of knowledge of Victorian History
		The pastoral wealth of Victoria, then the gold rush, the mercantile enterprises that followed created a society of remarkable capacity....The rapid advances of democracy made us a social laboratory.
		Victoria and Melbourne were the vanguard of the nation." (Professor Stuart Macintyre, Inaugural Chair of the History Council)
		It seeks to raise the profile and practice of history in schools and the wider community and to encourage an appreciation of the many and varied aspects of Victoria's heritage.
	www.history.vic.gov.au (158 words)

	Victoria Motorcycle History
		The first Victoria model that became popular was presented in 1921 and had a BMW 494cc 2-cyl.
		In 1951 Victoria had these models: a 99cc twostroker, the 248cc KR 25 AERO and the 38cc bicycle engine.
		Norbert Riedel, who had designed and built the avant-garde IMME joined the Victoria team and designed the 197cc "Swing", which was presented in 1954/55, but the production costs of this beauty were too high and only a few units were sold.
	www.cybermotorcycle.com /euro/brands/victoria_motorcycle_history.htm (427 words)

	Boydell & Brewer Ltd
		VCH Cambridgeshire IV The Victoria History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely IV.
		A History of the County of Chester V.i.
		VCH Stafford IX A History of the County of Stafford IX: Burton-upon-Trent
	www.boydell.co.uk /VICRY.HTM (2138 words)

	St. George's Chapel > History > Queen Victoria
		Queen Victoria used St George's Chapel to an extent as a family chapel and in March 1863, during the early days of her widowhood, she chose the chapel as the place for the marriage of her son, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, to Princess Alexandra of Denmark.
		In 1863 Queen Victoria also converted the tomb house, partly built by Henry VII on the site of the original chapel, into a memorial chapel to Prince Albert.
		Queen Victoria's funeral in 1901 took place in the chapel, very delayed, due to the horses pulling the coffin, breaking their traces at Windsor station.
	www.stgeorges-windsor.org /history/hist_victoria.asp (294 words)

	Crown Victoria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		New for 2003: The Crown Victoria has new heated exterior side mirrors, floor mats have been made standard equipment, the cloth upholstery has been improved, and there's a new trunk storage system option on the LX.
		One of the last domestic full-size rear-wheel-drive passenger cars left—since Chrysler and GM stopped producing their versions—the model line is the second-best seller in the full-size segment.
		Built on a platform initially introduced in 1979, the Crown Victoria is one of the company's most established and refined lines.
	www.ipublishers.com /autos/crown.htm (289 words)

	Victoria & Albert History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Victoria & Albert Guesthouse was erected in 1914 as the "Mount Victoria Hotel", replacing the original hotel, "The Royal" when the town was know as One Tree Hill in the 1860's.
		The Village of Mt Victoria came to be in May 1868 with the opening of the railway station.
		The pass of Victoria was constructed by surveyor General Sir Thomas Mitchell in 1832 superseding the previous route which had not proved satisfactory for horse and cart.
	www.ourguest.com.au /victoriahistory.html (452 words)

	Information Victoria - Community History Awards
		The Victorian Community and Local History Award, sponsored by Information Victoria is an opportunity for local history societies and individuals to benefit from the many hours of volunteer work that goes into developing Victoria's local history resources.
		Information Victoria and the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, the award co-ordinators, were delighted that over one hundred entries were submitted in the first year of the Award (1998).
		This site seeks to raise the profile and practice of history in schools and the wider community and to encourage an appreciation of the many and varied aspects of Victoria's heritage.
	www.information.vic.gov.au /comm_hist/1998.html (289 words)

	History of Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia Historical
		Anticipating that under the Oregon Treaty, then being drawn up, the 49th parallel would be chosen as the International Boundary Line, the Hudson's Bay Company moved its fort from Vancouver on the Columbia River to the southern end of Vancouver Island.
		Then miners and adventurers from the gold fields of California and Australia, and indeed from all parts of the world, flocked to Victoria which was the only ocean port and outfitting centre for the gold fields of the Caribou.
		In 1859 government buildings were constructed at James Bay, south Fort, and christened "The Birdcages." In continuous use for almost forty years (except for the brief period 1866-68 when New Westminster, not Victoria, was the capital) they were replaced in the 1890's by the present Parliament Buildings, completed late in 1897.
	www.victorialodging.com /victoria (1481 words)

	History of Victoria, Texas
		Margaret Hays Trudeau moved to Victoria from Louisiana in the 1820's and was granted a league of land above the community.
		Her fist husband, Harrison Dunbar, was shot to death in Victoria as a result of a local dispute.
		Shortly after reaching Wichita, however Margaret died of "trail fever" and "congestion of the brain." Her body was returned to Victoria and buried in the Evergreen Cemetery.
	www.reaserrealty.com /victoriahistory.asp (988 words)

	Victoria - Area History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Victoria we know today started in the reign of Queen Victoria, but before the Europeans first set foot in what is now known as British Columbia, First Nations people had called Vancouver Island home for over 11,000 years.
		In order to keep Vancouver Island, the British moved the capital of British Columbia to Victoria under the hope that if the capital is there, then the US can't have the island.
		Victoria was well on her way to being the beautiful City of Gardens that she is today.
	victoria.rezrez.com /whattoexpect/areahistory (368 words)

	History of Victoria at travel-victoria.com
		First Nations people have lived in what is now called Victoria, British Columbia for many thousands of years before Europeans arrived a mere 500 hundred years ago.
		Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, and the Parliament Buildings bear a 24kt statue of Captain Vancouver at the top.
		Victoria was established as a Hudson's Bay Company fort in 1843, which eventually evolved into the colonies of Vancouver Island (established 1849) and British Columbia (established 1858).
	www.travel-victoria.com /history (361 words)

	ASLIA Vic History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This is a record of some of the History of Sign Language interpreting in Australia.
		Bill was from New South Wales and after doing his training in Victoria for about nine months, returned to his sponsoring body the Adult Deaf and Dumb Society of New South Wales.
		The history of the Barton TAFE (then Richmond College of TAFE and now Chisholm Institute of TAFE) Course begins in November, 1984.
	www.aslia.com.au /vic/history.htm (4204 words)

	Victoria History
		Comprehensive history of sawmills and logging tramways of the Upper Yarra Valley.
		A history of sawmills and tramways of the Powelltown area.
		Comprehensive history of sawmills and logging tramways of the Rubicon valley.
	www.abcmaps.com.au /vichist.htm (417 words)

	Victoria History
		John Lindley established the genus Victoria and described the species regia in honor of Queen Victoria.
		The Victoria at Kew was under the care of James Gurney, who would later become superintendent of Tower Grove Park in St. Louis, Missouri.
		The largest Victoria that we have found reported was grown in 1891 at the United States Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C. under the care of George W. Oliver.
	www.victoria-adventure.org /victoria/victoria_history.html (918 words)

	MyAncestry.org
		Notes on the history of the church and parish of Rattlesden, in the county of Suffolk : together with a copy of the parish registers from 1558 to 1758, and index of the marriages.
		In her life history sketch, Martha states “But after they were grown up [her children, the youngest is Earl, born 1918], I became interested in genealogy work and enrolled in a class which was taught by Archibald Bennett.
		The Victoria History of the Counties of England.
	myancestry.org /bibliography.htm (1726 words)

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