"The Bastion was a round or octagonal tower placed at the corners of the stockades ... which used to be made use of as a prison for the badly disposed natives or whites."
B.C.Archives
Roderick Finlayson
Description of Vancouver Island and the Northwest Coast/Page 56
"On the North and South corners was a tower [the bastion] containing six to eight pieces of ordinance each. The north one served as
a prison, the south one for firing salutes whenever the Governor visited any place officially."
B.C. Archives
An excerpt from Colonel Holloway's report on Fort Victoria to the HBC dated January 1853
Printed in the Colonist
NW 971K D133C 1887
"These bastions were octagionial shaped and projected beyond the lines of the pickets so that the guns were able to rake the four sides of the Fort."
B.C. Archives
J.R. Anderson's Memoirs
AddMss 1912, volume 8, file#6
"A man named Fish (I think his christian name was William) who arrived at Fort Victoria in 1850,
by the Norman Morrison, had his arm blown off, which caused his death
on the occasion of a salute being fired from the South West Bastion of the Fort in honour of
the arrival of the Tory in 1851."
B.C. Archives
Robert James Anderson's Memoirs
AddMss 1912 volume #8 file #4
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