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Lambrick family

Arthur Lambrick immigrated to Victoria in 1911 at the age of 19. In 1914 he married Clara Sedgeman and the couple had five children. In 1924 they bought 10 acres in Gordon Head from Luke Pither. They acquired more land and their dairy herd grew to 75 head. Arthur Lambrick served as a municipal councillor from 1935 to 1938, and Reeve of Saanich 1939-40. In 1965 he sold 44.39 acres of land to the Saanich Municipality which now houses Lambrick Park Secondary School, a park and the Gordon Head Recreation Centre.

Lum family

Lum Young Chow immigrated to Victoria from China in 1903 and established greenhouses on Shelbourne Street in 1924. In 1927, he married and moved to the family home, which was also on Shelbourne Street. He and his wife, Lee Dong Gui, had 9 children who all helped out in the greenhouses. The eldest son, Ed Lum, served on Saanich Council for many years, and was Mayor of Saanich from 1974 to 1977.

Martelli family

Robert John Martelli was born in Vancouver in 1931. Jean Maxine Penson was born in Saskatchewan in 1932, moved to Esquimalt where she attended Lampson Street School and Esquimalt High, then later trained as a nurse at the Royal Jubilee Hospital. The couple met in about 1945 and were married in 1955 at St. Andrew's Cathedral in Victoria. They had 3 children: Kim Elise, Gina Maxine and Mia Louise. Robert John and Jean Maxine Martelli lived in their house at 841 Ralph from 1964 until shortly before they died in 2011.

McMorran family

George McMorran Sr. was born in Richmond Ontario in 1855. As a young man he worked at the Stark Mills in Paisley Ontario, where in the early 1880’s he met and married Isabella Stark. In 1890 they crossed Canada with their four children on the recently completed CP railway. At Port Moody they boarded a paddle wheeler bound for Victoria. George McMorran secured employment on R.P.Rithet’s 1000 acre farm as the foreman to clear the land of timber. The McMorrans lived in a farmhouse on Rithet’s land for nine years, and once the job was completed they moved to a 12-acre home on Cedar Hill Road and Pear Street with their six children. The family spent many of their summers on the beach at Cordova Bay. George Stark McMorran, born in Paisley Ontario in 1887, was only two years old when he arrived on Vancouver Island. At the age of 21, in 1909, George went into a partnership to form a real estate company which was known as Dougall & McMorran. Dougall and McMorran began to purchase and then sub-divide land in the area of what is now Doumac Avenue in Cordova Bay. When real estate took a downturn in 1912, the company was dissolved. During WWI George Stark McMorran served as gunner (1914-18). Following the war he opened up a six by twelve foot building called the Canuck Tea Room on rented land in Cordova Bay. Successfully catering to the campers, beach goers and day trippers from Victoria, McMorran was able to expand his store and went into the summer cabin rental business, which reached the peak of 72 cabins. In 1921, McMorran’s Tea Room opened and it became famous for dances held there every Saturday night with local orchestras. In 1923, George Stark McMorran married schoolteacher Ida Richards and the couple had four children: Eric, Bruce, Richard and David. In 1926, George S. McMorran became the first postmaster in Cordova Bay and he was also responsible for bringing in most of the utilities and services to the area. Upon George S. McMorran’s retirement from the business, sons Eric and Bruce took over, updating and expanding McMorran’s, with the addition of the Seaview Plaza Super-Valu store among their ventures. George S. McMorran died in 1971. McMorran’s Beach House was a landmark building along Cordova Bay Road, having remained family owned and operated for over 80 years. McMorran’s Beach House, Lookout Ballroom and Charter’s Restaurant were run by great grandson Wallace McMorran until 2010, when the business was closed. It later reopened as the Beach House Restaurant under new ownership.

Pridmore family

William Abraham Pridmore immigrated to Quebec from England in 1870 and later came to Victoria. He found work as a tallyman at Sayward Mill and received 100 acres off Burnside Road. Unable to show that he had made sufficient improvements to it, he lost the land but later regained it after becoming a champion race walker and winning enough cash to buy it back. In 1879, he married Hannah Atkins and they had six children. Their son, William Richard Pridmore married Hansina Bugslag in 1911, and the couple had 4 children. William Richard did various hauling work with his team of horses and was later Road Foreman of Ward 4 for Saanich. William Richard Pridmore died in 1948, and Hansina Pridmore died in 1950.

Puckle family

Henry Puckle was the owner of Braemar farm in Saanich.

Raper family

Edward Albert Raper and his wife Sarah (née Rippon) came to the Gordon Head area of Saanich in 1918. They bought property at 3990 Cedar Hill Road and began farming, eventually acquiring enough land for a herd of 60 dairy cattle. Edward also had a milk route to sell the milk that was produced. Sarah was very active in St. Aidan’s Church. After Edward Raper’s death in 1966, much of the farmland was sold for development. The Raper farmhouse was demolished in 1983. Sarah Raper died in 1979.

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