Saanich Parks Department was established in 1958. The Parks Department and the Recreation Department merged in 1977 forming Saanich Parks and Recreation Department. In 2019, Saanich Parks and Recreation Department added a Community Services division and became the Parks, Recreation and Community Services Department.
Information from the Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America: "The Military Hospitals Commission (MHC) was established in June 1915 by the federal government to provide hospital accommodation and convalescent homes for returned soldiers and to develop programs for the rehabilitation and reemployment of the disabled." "The sick and disabled who returned to Canada during the war were the responsibility of the Military Hospitals Commission, but by 1918, the government faced an even greater challenge: the demobilization of Canada's army at the end of hostilities. A Department of Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment (DSCR) was established in February 1918 to develop plans for the postwar reintegration of Canadian veterans in society. At the same time, the MHC was renamed the Invalid Soldiers Commission with ongoing responsibility for the rehabilitation and retraining of the disabled, and was absorbed by the new department -- the DSCR."
Saanich resident and returned soldier Charles Frederick Dawson worked for the Department of Soldiers' Civil Re-Establishment as the Chief Industrial Training Inspector.
Heather Greenhill Shield and Herbert Shield lived in England and were married ca. 1945. They moved to Canada ca. 1957, first to Vancouver and then to the Victoria area where they lived in various homes on the Saanich Peninsula (Lands End Road, North Saanich; Brentwood Bay; and Wain Road, North Saanich). During this time, they travelled extensively and took numerous photographs. Herbert Shield died in 2003.