Drunk – Fined $1-25. Costs $2-
For Spalding
Potatoes – 2 loaf sugar
1 Doz of sherry – 1 case of ale
To wash flannel
Wash in very hot water
& rinse in cold –
Edwd Tags –
Peter Suite
Portsmouth
Columbia St Queenborough
No 2- B. 16- $340
Took Alexander
Flour 58cts for lb
Bacon 80 – 15th Septr 59
Beans 58
Sugar 58
10
4
11 – 50
1 – 50
20
20
1
3
5
4 – 50
£18 – 20-
Sir
I think it desirable to inform
you that a number of houses
situated in the said spot
[adjacent] the Fort [deletions] are
burnt down on the 24th inst
[deletion] & it appears to me to
be a good opportunity of [illegible]
[parties] from squatting there from
the [illegible].
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Peter O’Reilly’s 1859 diary has been transcribed by volunteers and staff of the Vancouver Island Local History Society and is for informational purposes only. Researchers interested in this diary are advised to consult the original document housed at the Royal British Columbia Museum & Archives, found in MS-2894, the O’Reilly family fonds.