{"id":10,"date":"2017-03-14T17:21:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T00:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/template-beginner\/contact\/"},"modified":"2018-04-09T16:39:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T23:39:26","slug":"contact","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mappinghistory\/contact\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Victoria Fire Maps:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Victorias Fire-maps are an incredibly useful tool for researching where Chinese Laundries were located throughout the city as well as what kind of accommodations or hazards may have been seen.<\/li>\n<li>The Victoria fire maps are also important for viewing any changes in locations of the laundries from 1902-1911.<\/li>\n<li>Using the fire maps we were able to cross reference and see what changes to streets and locations have happened throughout history.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Fisgard and Government St.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mappinghistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3327\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-08-at-2.49.27-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-228\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mappinghistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3327\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-08-at-2.49.27-PM-620x428.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mappinghistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3327\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-08-at-2.49.27-PM-620x428.png 620w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mappinghistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3327\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-08-at-2.49.27-PM-768x530.png 768w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mappinghistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3327\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-08-at-2.49.27-PM.png 939w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Then and Now of the 1911 fire insurance map located at Fisguard and Government St.<\/li>\n<li>This area is where many of Victorias Chinese laundries were concentrated<\/li>\n<li>Notice the change in name from &#8220;Fisguard&#8221; to &#8220;Fisgard&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>View and Fort St<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mappinghistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3327\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-08-at-3.51.27-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-241\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mappinghistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3327\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-08-at-3.51.27-PM-620x396.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mappinghistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3327\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-08-at-3.51.27-PM-620x396.png 620w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mappinghistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3327\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-08-at-3.51.27-PM-768x491.png 768w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mappinghistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3327\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-08-at-3.51.27-PM.png 779w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fire Insurance map showing Fort and View St parallel to eachother<\/li>\n<li>In-between Fort and View were many small Chinese run laundry businesses<\/li>\n<li>Many Chinese laundries were concentrated in the core of downtown<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Victoria Fire Maps:\u00a0\u00a0 Victorias Fire-maps are an incredibly useful tool for researching where Chinese Laundries were located throughout the city as well as what kind of accommodations or hazards may have been seen. The Victoria fire maps are also important for viewing any changes in locations of the laundries from 1902-1911. Using the fire &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mappinghistory\/contact\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fire Maps&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6440,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mappinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mappinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mappinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mappinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mappinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mappinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mappinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mappinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}