Victoria. by Valorie Lennox The Review Dinner was less than a dollar at the Deep Cove Chalet in the 1920s, when the popular restaurant was operated by May and Sammy Jones and Brownie Horth. The nine-acre site also featured such amenities as a beer parlor, tennis courts, boat rentals and six cottages — all of which could be easily reached by visitors since the inter-urban train station adjoined the property. Still popular today, in the 1920s the chalet drew up to 600 visitors on weekends. Prices were comparatively low. Boats could be rented for 25 cents an hour, afternoon tea was 35 cents and a full course dinner was 75 cents. After dinner, there was dancing to the popular Cecil Heaton Orchestra. May Jones supervised much of the operation of the chalet as husband Sammy was also involved in another business, Deep Cove Motor Service. Onginally started by Sammy Jones and Cpt. Norman Hocking at the end of the First World War, the business operated freight trucks and a 15-passenger extended Cadillac between Sidney and father. Educated at Cambridge University in England, he started his career with Lloyds of London. While still in England he bought, sight unseen, some land in the Kootenays. In 1904 he travelled to B.C. to see his property and discovered the land did not exist. He then went south, spent two years with Bishops Bank in Honolulu and returned to B.C to work as transportation super- MARGARET (IAD JONED ov aeny De HC, Slesiee OF Brownie Horth joined the Vancouver Island. Wednesday, November 11,1992 — A15 Dinner under a dollar at early Chalet THE RAILWAY STATION from the inter-urban line (foreground) adjoined the Deep Cove Chalet (background) in the 1920s, providing easy access to the resort. They moved to James Island to operate a boarding house for CLL. during the boom years of the war, then settled in Deep Cove. Jones opened the first bank in Sidney — the Merchants Bank on Beacon Avenue which was then known as Sidney Way. Despite their many business ties to the Peninsula, the Jones were continually afflicted with wanderlust. In 1927 they sold their Penin- sula businesses and moved to the Cariboo, where they oper- transportation company and was also Jones” partner in the 1920 purchase of Deep Cove Chalet from B.C. Electric: Sammy and May Jones brought a diverse range of skills to their business operations. Bom Sidney Jones in Pem- -broke, Wales, in 1884, Sammy was one of 10 children raised in a vicarage by his minister Margaret (May) Jones was also well-travelled. Born in Belfast, Ireland in 1897, she came to Jordan River, Canada, with her family in 1912. She was just 15 when she met Sammy in Jordan River but told him she was 18 —a detail she did not correct until years — after their marriage on Aug. 4, 1913. ‘Boats could be rented for 25 cents an hour, affernoon tea was 35 cenfs and a full course dinner was 75 cents’ ated the Bridge River Motor Service. Until 1941, they hauled freight and passengers between the Bridge River, Goldbridge, Pioneer and Bra- lome Gold Mines. Their next move was to Lil- looet where they again operated both a transportation company and a resort: the Lillooet Trans- — portation Co. and the Craig Lodge Resort. Sons Sid, Eric and Ken | helped operate the business. The couple also had two daugh- ters, Shirley and Jeanette. After five years in Lillooet, they returned to Vancouver Island, buying the Wavecrest Lodge and six cottages in Qual- icum Beach, Ready to retire in 1959; they returned to Deep Cove, pur- chasing a 100-year-old farm house on Wain Road. 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