In "Fragmented Gods" Bibby comments on Colonial Victoria. A pioneer evangelist wrote home about Saloons, Ships Chandlers and Brothels doing a booming trade on Sundays, while Churches couldn't fill their pews. Colonial Victoria was more like King's Cross or Barbary Coast than the "Little Bit of Olde England" nonsense pushed by the Tourism Bureau. Victoria and San Fran... were the first European settlements on the West Coast with masonry buildings. They specialized in cattering to ships and sailors.