While visiting Victoria this August I went prowling around the narrow alleys of old Chinatown. The most narrow alley is called Fan Tan Alley, about 4 feet wide, but the whole area has been regimented into a conventional grid pattern. The old insurance maps in the BC Archives are far more intriguing. No sign of Chinese Charlie's but there was a Panama Saloon on Yates Street, right around the corner from where Cicely "thumped a typewriter" in a law office.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble