Early railroad schemes -- Surveying the route -- Financing arranged -- Start of construction -- Elk Lake relocation -- First rolling stock -- Temporary southern terminus -- Early operations -- Victoria Terminal Railway & Ferry Company -- Commencement of Victoria City & mainland extensions -- The great northern purchase -- New mainland rail connections -- Mainland to island connecting link SS "Victorian" -- Additional motive power -- Service complaints -- Further extension of G.N. control -- Operating problems -- The G.N. locomotives -- A new Victoria station -- Passenger problems -- City and province versus railway company -- Competition--B.C.E.R. -- G.N. gas-electric car -- Further competition--Canadian Northern Pacific Railway -- New G.N. barge slip -- The big snow of 1916 -- The last run -- V & S in receivership -- Sidney branch sold to C.N. -- End of an era -- Roster of locomotives -- Bibliography and acknowledgments.