erie as 7) se fe sient titasis sriage TEE TNS AAA ns : PUR SDAYS ANT: FRIDAYS Wednesday, October 4, 1972 THE REVIEW, A SIDNEY SCHOGL PICNIC prepares te depart on the lriquels. cirea 1906, with Captain Reilly in the wheelhouse. Upper deck, far right, is Miss Currie (sister of Sir Arthur Currie): small boy above third piling from Jet ig WLN, Capeland, deckhand on lower deck (near troquois sign) Wm. Pollard; ladies on far left. — Mesdames Brethour; front right ~~ Charles Rabey, cook and deckhand. -. Chapel of Roses. A picket fence Old-Timer Remembers Salmon At Ten Cents A Pound If . you. are strolling along Fourth Street, towards Sidney’s Town. Hall, you may observe’ a small neat cottage next to. Sand’s encloses. a small garden and; if the well-trained climbing vines elude your « identification, _ the owner. of the cottage will. advise you that these are some of the few hop plants left froma once- thriving industry on- North Saanich farms in the 1800's. Upon entering this neat bachelor's cottage, you will meet its: very amiable owner,. Mr. William H. Pollard, who has lived here since 1946 and who will be 88 next February! Bill) Pollard. was born at Burgoyne Bay, Salt Spring Island on February 28th, 1885, but came to North Saanich: when. he was two years of age. In 1894 they lived: in’ a house on McTavish Road (where Ardmore. Golf Course is now. located): This home originally belonged ‘to Richard Jobns. Mr. Pollard still PROPOSED ROUTE FOR MINI-BUS SERVICE ARGUND SIDNEY & DEEP COVE (Subject to Public Uiiliiies Cormmission appraeval) Ce Rug . FOIE NA, t atte ¥ tg re “4 Hospital: 9” Thumb Pt © oy lend WED coowe Ni Wanpwert OAD ote ~ i ONG toda eN Vet wrerna tional _Adrpart |p a a ees ee essing : : . ; : ; ms : aoa . a He 5 : mA 18 VISH RD gy PO ae en Ae a. 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There were no telephones at that time but. the Indians were celebrating a four-day sports event at the Gorge and_an older loss of many: lives. acting as coxswain, “‘Squaws Upset Race” — “smal Indian from. the Cole Bay reserve. came and told. them of~.the collapse of the bridge with the In speaking of the sports event at the Gorge in those early days, he said they were lively.and well- contested; there were 1i men in each canoe — 10 paddlers and one and - contestants with their war canoes travelled from far and near. for this annual event. He chuckled as -he. recalled an. event called said: Object was to upset canoes, right them and climb back into the ‘canoe. Maybe —dangerous- sounding by. today’s standards, but he couldn’t recall any serious accidents. While living on McTavish Road, a sister was born, but she has since passed away, in .1951. New school — in 1900 In 1896 the family moved to a small house next. door to the Legion Hall on Mills Road. The old North Saanich school .was built nearby in.1896 and the young boy attended school there. Four years later, in 1900, the new school was built, where the Legion .Hall now stands. Mr. Pollard recalls that Rufus Horth purchased the old school building” to move''to his .property,. but before this could be done,-it was. necessary to fell trees and clear enough of a path to move it to Wains Road. As far as he knows, this old building is still on the ‘Horth’s property. Young. Bill started work when he was 15. His first job was night watchman aboard the _ ill-fated “Iroquois”: He > would: run the engines from Sidney. to the North Saanich “wharf. At that time (1900). Captain. Reilly. was — in command, with. Joe Haskins. as: mate. and» Harley. Woods, deckhand. The ship was built by T. .W...Paterson and_ it. left. on Monday mornings, carrying and the Gulf. Islands..en route. to Nanaimo. It.stayed’ overnight ‘in for the return trip. It was young Pollard’s job to pick up the mail the mornings, with their pitlamps 1) on their hats!-If there was freight canoes and Jarge * women’ Ah picking up mail and freight from. that town, where it ‘‘coaled up”. sacks and he remembers seeing the miners going to work early in Special to the Sidney Review BY BEA BOND their return trip, they would drop this off at the Gulf Islands. After a year on the ‘‘Iriquois’’; he got itchy feet and decided to try his hand in the logging camps. ‘Y packed my blankets,” he says, “and went to the Victoria Lumber Co. at Chemainus”’. The Weyerhauser people (now a- big name. in U.S. lumber industry) owned: this company, but later sold out to MacMillan & Bloedel. After two years at that location, he later worked down the. west coast near San Juan (now known as Port Renfrew). There were no roads in those days and one could only follow the old telegraph line. Salmon at 10¢ As lumbering in this area could only: be done in the summer months, Mr. Pollard put in his slack. time by fishing sockeye or digging clams. He was on the “‘Bamfield’'.with the seine boats along the west coast and tells me that sockeye salmon brought the munificent sum of :10c each at that time! _Of those early days in Sidney, he recalls that Julius Brethour gave 80 feet.of. his property. for the construction of Beacon Ave. He also donated: land for the lumber mill and the railway. park (which -was. on: the’ seafront, opposite Uncle Dudley’s Trading Post). Mr. Brethour later had the contract for laying out. Beacon Avenue. as well. as constructing the East Road into Victoria. » Young © Bill accompanied his uncle to watch the sailing ship’ “Rathdown” bring in the rails for. the V.& S Railway. around 1893- Well-known men in Sidney at. this period besides Julius’ Brethour,. ‘were William » White, Alex. e {from Nanaimo to be delivered on |: oo - we - CHRISTMAS CARDS HAVE JUST ARRIVED | FOR EARLY MAILING Also time for subseription, for Beautiful B. 3.C. 7 - Cornish’s: Book & ee oh 2410. BEACON - — 656-2931 Menagh~ ‘and Captain . Bissett. Mention. of. Captain | Bissett brought to mind thatzhe. -owned the first Sidney Hotel in 1891, In later years, people travelled out from Victoria on the V & S and either: stayed at the Sidney. Hotel: or. North Saanich: Hotel (formerly. .rocks. near ~hadn’t heard of the robbery and ‘hidden by Bill Miner! A short- » However, as there were C.P.R. “bonds inthe missing loot, it’ was” and was on the J ames Island tin, o Mr: Pollard: worked for: awhile with the lumber’ mill ‘at Sidney. “Art Wright opened the North Saanich Hotel after the © mill closed. and: a... Mr: Beli also operated it-at one time. Mr. Bell later owned a home, high’ on the the Royal Oak Cemetery and. this. home remained there until: last year’s improvements and overpasses on’ the. Pat Bay Highway. Mr. Pollard recalled having to deliver a horse and dump-cart to Mr. Bell and return to Sidney via the V & S. He was handed $1.00 for. this trip which he thought was very generous — in. those days. $1.00 per day. and. board = was considered good money! Men were. working on government roads for 20¢c.an hour and putting in a1. lt hour: day. He remembers the: excitement and. celebrating when they received a 25c raise. Other writers have covered the notorious. careers -of “two characters named ‘‘Slinger’’ Woods (who had been a prize- fighter) and Bill Miner, infamous train robber, both of whom tunnelled their .way.out of Oakalla prison. Bill. Miner later robbed: the ‘Bank of Montreal in New Westminster and escaped. Around this time, Bill. Pollard was in that area and had occasion to walk over the bridge, but, didn’t’ know that,. beneath the bridge, over. $40,000 had been time later,’some children playing beneath the bridge found some coins and, later, other money, { am told. that “Slinger” Woods and Bill Miner were. apain jailed. agreed to. release Old Bill on condition «that ‘the. bonds _ be ‘returned. He... ‘release of his partner’ as well. Mr. Pollard tells that this Bill Miner once had a. horse-ranch in the Cariboo and was well liked as ‘a neighbor.. ‘He always had lots of | strangers visiting, as his ranch “was handy to the U.S. border. Itis’ ‘said that Miner never ‘carried a | Bun, nor. used: violence. ‘He was “another. “career, insisted -on the: only the Saanich Peninsula but all of the Gulf Islands as well. His — name was Hughie Moore and he. had to board the ship to make the arrest. The guilty: man -was known to be a huge Spaniard, but the dauntless Moore pushed open a cabin door and shoved in his pistol, demanding the murderer to put up his hands. He arrested his) man. and it..was. then necessary to take him’ into Victoria as there were no jails or cells here at that time. That this man Hughie Moore: must have been a rugged individual is reflected in another of Mr.‘ Poliard’s recoNections of the time Moore had to row twelve miles to Active Pass to arrest murderer. He approached a .cabin, very. stealthily-and all alone, but upon entering found that the guilty man had cornmitted suicide and was quite dead!” When ‘construction started” on James Island for the new. powder. plantin 1915,.Mr.-Pellard worked there for 7 -.8 months. ye After a varied: and interesting ‘Mr. Pollard “retired in: “1946 to. the small coltage built by George Brethour’ and’ Chris Smith, on. Fourth ‘Street ‘in ‘Sidney, He has: taken several. trips to Toronto, both by train and by plane, the last being in. 1966. -He-has two cousins living in that. city. a pioneer, for both the 1958 and | the 1971 Centennials. The citation with. the 1958 medallion stances “To William Hi. Pollard, residen jaf ‘British Columbia when the. first regular . pass enger trans-. continental. ‘train reached. ‘the. Pacific Coast, presented: with this in..the Pr ovinee Columbia, of British _ ~country, | province | and fellow.” ~ citizens.” aor “ugh He: also cherishes: a framed : “original of Sidney’s Coat: -of _Arms,. pres sented by. Sidney's s Mayor, Stanley. ne Dear. oat “murder “Rathdown’?. vAt that: time there. “aforementioned: ‘sailing. ship. | Wharf, maiily. on the log booms.. ‘was one policeman ‘to cover not election, A’ Canadian, a -Saanleh. constita ' eraduate. of” theo oo Columbia, a verteran of the Royal Canadian Air Poree, “het anda successful career diplomat for twenty five years, ei ay is is y our py agressive C onservative candidate in B gqulmalt: a yc Saanich riding, the man la vole for: in the Oct, $0. federal gl a if 4 ey oy ct N permanent vant af his constituency (50 vAve.,, Cordova Bay) with a listed telephon 18 (G58-K606), Thema most capable of serving the people of Esquimalt as momber of Parliament In the government ot Robert. Stiuntield. CHOV A ae fi RCo ren Ret a fy ett di cinShipd aH Iniversity .of British ‘ 120 Parker: mt ea . Byny “h - Servier In France, From 1908 lo Tyan he Panama, | Salvador, rea i ‘ade ‘Ns ‘ si ~ Donald Munro was born.in Regina in ig. He received ohis primary school Cdueation: there, high school at Lord; “Bachelor jof Apts - tlogree | ny ne ~ Conors) fromthe University of British C ‘ldmbla, where. te ere he! qraduated in 19: 1K anit tanh in BC, dn Vancouver and ye, 7 mh x SNe: ‘received “he “Masters. “depr ce. ins an et, # Km © University of T oronte, after: tive” yearn of serv vice in the ~ Royal ¢ anadian Alp ¥ orce. oe Ws war wervice WAS us nnvigator, 7 the North African theatre, From. 1916 to 1063 he. wis, in the: (: anadian Diplomatic Turkey, Treland, Belglum and Lehi wNON, In 1901 and 195 he was Canidian ¢ A Tnternutional: Control Commission, Wawasan Wis ‘Canadian ambassidor in Nicaragua, Costa Ricas. Me wis: then Diplomat in Hosidence aL Dathouvie oy Ate ou niversity, Halifax, until moving to Victoria. - aoe to!” ie : coastal ¢ omnia at in- “political siluations. >) Hevalso- ‘think. : : Threads Centre. is a nice place | to: visit fora game of Jacko,.tea or os maybe lunch, ‘It’s a good place to meet. many: old’ friends. as ‘well, As I. left. his