Salt Spring Island Archives

Post Offices

November 9, 1991

For your information it would appear that the following Post Offices were open on Salt Spring Island.
Salt Spring Island 1874 - 1933
Burgoyne Bay 1880 - 1900
Beaver Point
1884 - 1951
Fulford Harbour
1893 - 1900
North Salt Spring 1893 - 1902
South Salt Spring 1900 - 1924

Ch- Fulford Harbour

1924 - open
Ganges 1906 - open
Musgrave Landing 1923 - 1929

Ch- Musgrave

1929 - 1957
Ganges PO 1990 - open
Vesuvius Bay never had office even though it has been claimed that it did.  


Note:
• The post office named "Salt Spring Island" in the list above may well have been what was referred to by Salt Spring Islanders as the Vesuvius Bay post office, at Central.
• The school at Central was named Vesuvius Bay School by the powers that be (in Victoria) because Vesuvius Bay was the nearest landing place.
• There was certainly a post office at Central - in Broadwell's store
(in 2012 this post office shelving unit was delivered to Salt Spring Island's Heritage Museum, where it is currently on display)

Usha Rautenbach 2012


I have the names of postmasters for above offices to 1970 and in some cases later.
I have a 1967 letter from a Miss G.C. Hamilton, Dromore, RR 1 Fulford Harbour discussing Post Offices and mail to Salt Spring Island.
If you have exact information on the location of any or all of the above offices I would appreciate a map showing the location.
Yours truly,

Bill Topping

 

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