An essential paperback guidebook to exploring Victoria's history of built architecture, this now-classic study was the result of a collaboration between the author, Martin Segger, Director of the Maltwood Art Museum and Adjunct Professor in Art History at the University of Victoria, former Victoria City Councillor, St. Andrew's Cathedral parishioner (and, incidently, an early supporter of my own occasional publication, La Rosa, for which Mr. Segger contributed by subscription, advertisement and writing), and the photographer, Douglas Franklin.
Segger's text is chatty yet scholarly, informative but not stuffy, and is a huge storehouse of historical trivia pertaining to the verbal and written builiding lore of historical structures, whether domestic, commercial or eclesiastical, in Victoria, complemented by many too-small but well-compositioned black and white photographs by Douglas Franklin of Ottawa, Director of the Heritage Canada Foundation. Printed and bound by Morris Printing Company, it was published in 1996 by Sono Nis Press, with financial assistance from the Canada Council, and contains occasional floor and elevation plans, maps, bibliographical references and index, 336 pages.