Vancouver Island
From LFP 1A.011-N2; NITRATE NEGATIVE, noted in LFP items database - "C.P.R. Wharf, Nanaimo, V.I. [encl.]"; File Control Number 011.
Black and white image of people standing in front of a train.
Location unidentified, Moses Hamburger was Simon Leiser's son-in-law.
B.C. pioneers, including Joseph Boscowitz. Joseph Boscowitz fur store on Wharf Street in Victoria was one of the first business establishments in the city.
Caption continues: ... of Dry Goods, Clothing Etc. Can fill the Largest Order required on Short Notice. Anything wanted for the Mines Packed Securely, and Guaranteed the Best in the Market... 911 Yates Street, Victoria, BC.
Black and white image of an advertisement.
Black and white image of an advertisement.
Kady Gambitz opened his first store in 1858 on the West side of Yates Street. In December 1859 he opened a new store on Yates near the corner of Government Street. The store is showed in this engraving (second from the left), between the Adelphi Saloon and the Bank of British North America. Businesses left to right; Adelphi Saloon, Kady Gambitz's dry goods; Bank of Britsh North America; Moor & Co., Druggists on Yates and Langley; Hibben and Carswell; Langley Bros. Druggists; Auction House on Wharf.Kady Gambitz opened his first store in 1858 on the West side of Yates Street.
John Mahrer, an immigrant from Prague, opened a brewery in Nanaimo, a coal mining centre and port that is located north of Victoria on Vancouver Island. When the brewery amalgamated with the Union Brewery in 1891, Mahrer became its manager and master brewer. Mahrer was on the Nanaimo City Council for eight years and belonged to several charitable organizations as well as the city's band. John and Louise Mahrer's home and the Nanaimo Opera House, which John built, were the centres of Nanaimo's cultural life at the time.
Besides being the first recorded Jewish person to arrive in British Columbia, Alexander Aaron Phillips was Victoria's first baker of "Passover Bread" (matzoh), which he sold all over Vancouver Island and the state of Washington. In the fall of 1858 he opened the Pioneer Syrup, Soda and Cider Works. ALexander Phillips was the second president of Temple Emanu-El, a founding member of a local Masonic Lodge and Odd Fellows Lodge, as well as a member of the ST. George's Society and the British Columbia Benevolent Association.
