William Law Ogilby Diary
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From March 27th/92 To Oct 8th/92
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Diary of a Chain Man on a Government Survey on Vancouver Island
Tuesday March 27th
Starting from Victoria, Vancouver's Island with a Surveyor and fifteen Men, for the purpose of completing a Survey commenced two years previous, defining the line between the Dunsmuir [Grant] from the [Government] land: we were landed at Alberni by the C. P. W. Co Steamer Maude on the 29th [illegible].
Monday, March 28th Has passed visiting some [Dog ?] fishing stations and in landing supplies for some whaling [or 'sealing'?] schooners: three or four of these schooners were waiting in the bay for fine weather: proceeding afterwards we landed at the flourishing town of Alberni.
Tuesday, March 29th Where we landed our supplies (to our?) [housing?] [or 'warehousing'] there for the night on the wharf: we three split up into two and two (twos and twos) and visited the place (places) of interest in the afore said settlement: (Alberni is on the west coast of Vancouver Island: about 100 miles north of Victoria at the (this) read