Definition of "viâ"

Stahel's calvary division moved from Warrington, viâ Gainesville, to Fairfax Court-house.

1886: Comte De Paris, The Battle of Gettysburg, page 248

In the spring of 1857, I, with several friends, left Hongkong for Shanghai, viâ Foochow, in the small coasting steamer Antelope.

1890 February 28, W. S. Wetmore, “RECOLLECTIONS OF LIFE IN CHINA IN THE FIFTIES.”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette‎, volume XLIV, number 1178, Shanghai, page 256, column 1

To the right are the Lignes de Normandie (England viâ Dieppe or Le Havre).

1907, Karl Baedeker, Paris and environs: with routes from London to Paris; handbook for travellers, page 32

The foundries produced, in 1909, 74,000 tons of pig-iron which were exported viâ Shang-hai to Japan and even to America.

1912, Claudius Madrolle, Northern China, the Valley of the Blue River, Korea, 2nd edition, Hachette & company, page 386