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would not be achieved until there
was another war on the horizon.

The board was also campaign-
ing for irrigation for the Peninsula
and a better water supply for
Sidney, and was again trying to
persuade the provincial govern-
ment to incorporate Sidney.

In1921 the first of three serious
fires took place, wiping out one of
Sidney’s main industries, Sidney
Roofing and Paper Co. :

That year, ferries came on the
board’s agenda for the first time.
In 1921 the campaign: began for a
ferry to Mill Bay. The following
year the first ferry link with Ana-
cortes was started, and a year later
there was a CPR ferry service
started from Bellingham. These
tan only in the summer.

The board got into the tourist
business in the 1920s, operating an
“auto park”. For a decade starting
in 1925 it also put on an annual
“swimming gala” that was the
main event of the summer season.
In 1923 it tried to get a number of
organizations involved in building
a community hall, but the project
failed.

By 1925 only five of the original
members of the board were still
active: C.C. and G.A. Cochran,
H.A. McKillican, J.J. White and A.

_ Harvey.

That year a committee recom-
mended obtaining leases of Bazan
Bay, Roberts Bay, Patricia Bay and
Brennan’s beaches “for bathing
and picnic purposes’, and the
board built bath houses at the ferry
wharf.

By this time all Tail service to
the Peninsula was gone but there
were 10,350 cars in and out of
Sidney in a year.

On Jan. 19, 1928, at 4 a.m., fire
destroyed the Berquist Building,
wiping out the liquor store, Arthur

Harvey's butcher shop, John Gil-
man’s barbershop and poolroom,
Harry McKillican’s general store
and an auditorium and dance hall
on the second floor, and damaging
Sloan’s Shoe Store, the Seagull
Inn and Sidney Service Club. The
board of trade opened a subscrip-
tion list to buy more firefighting
equipment.

The need- for an active fire
department was further proved on
Nov. 21, 1929, when a fire at 4:30
a.m. destroyed Sidney Service Sta-
tion, Radio and Accessories, Sam
Roberts Real Estate office and a
new real estate office being pre-
pared for the unfortunate Harry
McKiallican.

The ferry service to Steveston
Started in 1928, and the next year a
major campaign for a breakwater
was begun. Cost -was estimated at
$380,000.

In 1930 the board succeeded in
having Roberts Bay and Shoal
Harbor accepted as federal bird
sanctuaries.

A foretaste of the depression, for
the first time since 1913 unemp-
loyment was back on the agenda.

In 1931 the fire brigade was in
difficulties and the board unde-
took to re-organize it. At the end
of the year plans were made for a
masquerade ball, to raise money
for a children’s swimming pool.

The name of the organization
was changed to the North Saanich
Board of Trade in 1932.

The Sidney Businessmen’s
Association, formed in 1934 and
involving many board of trade
members, gradually replaced the
earlier board.

In January, 1947, the Sidney
Businessmen’s Association organ-
ized the Sidney and North Saanich
Chamber of Commerce.

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