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The Township of Esquimalt was incorporated and recognized as a municipality on September 1, 1912 by the letters patent. A month later in October, the first by-law, "being the By-law to provide for the appointment of a Clerk, Assessor and Collector for the for Municipality" was passed.

The Municipal Clerk's Department provides a secretariat for Esquimalt Council and its Committees. This function includes agenda preparation, the recording of official minutes, the administration and certification of Township bylaws, and the execution of all legal documents on behalf of the Township of Esquimalt and functioning as the Head of Freedom of Information. In addition, the Municipal Clerk's Department is responsible for the administration of civic and school district elections and for the conducting of public referenda.

The City Clerk's Department is now known as Corporate Services and the Municipal Clerk title has changed to Corporate Officer. The Manager of Corporate Services fills the Corporate Officer position.

Before incorporation, policing in the dockyard and village was carried out at different times by the Dominion Police, the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. After 1912, this task was undertaken by the Esquimalt Municipal Police, the Esquimalt Police-Fire Department and the Victoria Police Department. Early police constables were also unofficially responsible for fire protection as the Fire Marshall position was held by the Police Chief. In September 1943, Council informed the Board of Police Commissioners that police officers would also be the official firefighters for the municipality. In 1957, the title Police-Fire Chief replaced Police Chief and Fire Marshall.

The Esquimalt Police-Fire Department was one of the few dual police-fires services in Canada. The force withstood many challenges from within the department and from both council and taxpayers to separate. In 1964, the police union tried to negotiate itself out of firefighting duties. Difficulties surfaced again in the late 1970s after a major fire. These difficulties were temporarily solved with more personnel and better training for all members of the department. Another change took place in the 1980s when a designated police officer with no firefighting responsibilities was authorized to serve on every shift.

In 2002, at the request of Mayor Ray Rice of Esquimalt and Mayor Alan Lowe of Victoria, the Solicitor General, the Honourable Rich Coleman announced the separation of the dual force. The policing of Esquimalt became the responsibility of an amalgamated City of Victoria and Township of Esquimalt police force under the guidance of the Victoria and Esquimalt Police Board. Mayor Darwin Robinson of Esquimalt (newly elected in 2002) reversed a similar plan to amalgamate fire services and instead approved the formation of the Esquimalt Fire Department in 2003.

Don Coltman was manager of Steffens-Colmer Studio from 1941-1943. In 1944 he took over the business and operated under the company name Steffens-Colmer Ltd. until 1951. From 1951 to 1954 he operated the business under Don Coltman Photographic Company (Don Coltman photos). In 1955 he closed the business and sold his photograph collection to Donn Williams. Williams Bros. Photographers Ltd. utilized these photographic records as stock photographs to compliment their own photographic records.

Miss Hewlings was a former teacher at Tillicum Elementary School and Esquimalt High School, where she was also the first female principal. She was a world traveler and had a fabulous collection of furniture from around the world.

The Esquimalt Lions Club started in 1951 and has been involved in a wide variety of community events and activities.

Frances Elinor Elizabeth Harris (nee Collis) was born July 7, 1903, in Cumberland, B.C. She was educated in Esquimalt and after marrying in 1929 she and her husband left for China, where they spent several years, including two and a half years in a Japanese concentration camp. Following her husband's death in 1949 she took over the Royal Roads Kindergarten and ran it until 1974. Elizabeth (Beth) Harris died June 5, 1989.