Long Harbour in front

Welbury Bay in middle

Ganges Harbour with Chain Islands in back (Goat Island- the long one and Deadman Is. the one to the south)

Compare the following image from the 1920s.

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Shot in the 1920s. Compare with previous image.

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the large field at Ruckle park, with Mike Lane’s house in the back left?

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St. Mark’s cemetery, Baker and Lower Ganges Roads

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This is now Portlock Park at the intersection at Central. Central Hall visible at the top. The barn would have been Milner’s chicken/turkey farm, across from the golf course.

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Central Hall & cemetery

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East shoreline of St. Mary Lake, looking north

See following image for a detail from this one.

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East shoreline of St. Mary Lake, looking north

Detail from previous image (2008042011006)

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Mouat farm on Tripp Road. Possibly it would have belonged to the Smith family then.

First house on the left across the Road the Cato house. The next one was the Springford house.

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Tripp Road

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Tripp Road

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House at 800 Lower Ganges Road. Portlock Park site and St. Mary Lake beyond

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Former house at 1200 North End Road.
It was owned by the Kingdoms in the 1930s for sure, and maybe earlier as well as later. Owned later by Mary Hawkins (remembered for her association with our library in Ganges) and her husband, who later sold it to the Claus Andress family who made additions and alterations to it in 1975-6. They in turn sold it to Ian and Catherine Drost in 2003 when they retired here from West Vancouver. After living in it for a year while planning alterations to it, they decided it was better to demolish it and build a competely new one. The original house was “demolished” by the SSI Fire Dept. burning it down for practice fighting a house fire

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1130 North End Road.
Either this and/or the property next door to the south was/were owned by the St. Denis family at least in the 1930s and into the 1950s (perhaps earlier and later). Mr. St. Denis was our roads foreman for most of that period.

The following image is a detail from this one.

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1130 North End Road.

Detail from the previous image.

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Portlock Park site. Vesuvius Bay Road leading to the right.

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Resort at 1170 North End Road (Currently St. Mary Lake Resort)

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Resort at 1450 North End Road (Currently named the “Lakeside Gardens Resort”).

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A closer view of the resort at 1450 North End Road.

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North end of St. Mary Lake, between Maycock and Dodds Roads.

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Fernwood Road - North End Road

Wallace Island and Galiano Island in background

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