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Parker, Douglas

Douglas V. Parker taught at various schools in the Victoria area including Belmont Secondary School, Oaklands Elementary School, and Lansdowne Middle School.

Coates, Pat (nee Locke)

The Locke family leased and farmed the Rithet property, Broadmead Farm, during the 1930s. Pat Coates was a daughter of the Locke family.

Stewart, Arthur

Arthur Stewart came to Saanich from Scotland in the early 1900s. A contractor and mason, he built many houses in the Quadra and Tattersall areas. He worked on the Empress Hotel and Carnegie Library and completed the cenotaph in Vancouver after his brother, also a stonemason, was killed during its construction. He started the Lakehill jitney and bus service which ran from Fort and Douglas to the Pumping Station at 3940 Quadra. Arthur died in 1938.

Whitehead family

Albert Harry Whitehead emigrated from Watford, England. He married Nellie Ada Ingle on September 2, 1912 in Victoria. Albert Whitehead was a house builder by trade and built many houses in the Prospect Lake area. The Whitehead family moved to Prospect Lake in 1923.

Vantreight family

John and Florence Vantreight emigrated from Dublin to Saanich in 1884 and settled in the northeast corner of Gordon Head. When John died in 1896, the eldest son Geoffrey took on the responsibility for the family and farm. Geoffrey Vantreight and his brothers Sydney and Edgar grew strawberries. In 1914 Geoffrey Vantreight married Maud Bartholomew. Geoffrey Vantreight obtained daffodil bulbs from W.T. Edwards in ca. 1915, the beginning of the crop for which the Vantreight family would become known.

Erickson, Myra

Myra Erickson was born Effie Myra Hodgson in 1919. Her mother’s family, the Etheridges, lived on Wilkinson Road and were very active in the Wilkinson Road Methodist Church. Myra Erickson was an employee of the Municipality of Saanich, and served in the Air Force in World War 2. Mrs. Erickson died in 2013.

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