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Draper, S. Horace

Horace Draper was born in 1925 in Ottawa. He served with the Canadian Navy during the Second World War, then worked as a draughtsman and photographer with the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory for over 25 years. He died in 2005.

Chave family

Reginald Chave was born in Woodstock, Ontario. In 1912, he married Bernice Scowcroft, a music teacher whose family lived at 738 Discovery St. in Victoria. Reginald and his father, William J. Chave, were grocers. From about 1915 to the early 1920s they had a grocery store, Wm. J. Chave & Son, at the corner of Douglas Street and Boleskine Road. Reginald and Bernice Chave lived nearby in a house on Saanich Road. They had two children, Cyril and Muriel. Bernice Chave died in Vancouver in 1948. Reginald died in Vancouver in 1957. Their daughter Muriel married William Townsend in 194- and had 3 children: Miriam Bowles (nee Townsend), Julie, and Devon.

Comber family

Sisters Muriel and Mary Comber worked as berry pickers during the summer at the Holloway Farm in what is now Central Saanich.

Croft family

Herbert Croft, born in Saanich on August 18, 1920, was the son of Ethel Mottershead and Charles Croft. The Croft family lived on Cedar Hill Cross Road near St Aiden's Church and Herbert Croft attended Cedar Hill School. On September 4, 1942 at St Luke's Church, Herbert Croft married Vera May Croft (b. 1923), the daughter of Mary Annie Beeston and Thomas Williams of Delatre Street in Victoria. Herbert and May Croft lived for many years in the Mount Tolmie and Cedar Hill areas of Saanich. Herbert Croft died on July 17, 2011.

Deans family

James and George Deans came to Vancouver Island from Scotland as employees of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1852 on the Norman Morison. They eventually purchased land near Mount Tolmie where they established a farm, Oak Vale. James became fluent in many First Nations dialects and was an authority on First Nations culture. He died in 1905.

Durrance family

John Durrance Sr. was an early landowner in Saanich. In 1860, he settled on 400 acres in the Lake District on a property he called Spring Valley Farm. He married Royal Oak area pioneer Jane Dyke after the deaths of her first two husbands, Richard Cheeseman and James Bailey.

Gillie family

The Gillie family lived in the Strawberry Vale area of Saanich.

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