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Page 6 - =, ; . . THE, REVIEW _. — ; . Wednesday, March 20, 1974

The Yukon, Stewart and travel.. The. Department of
about Manor House, ithas been Teslin Rivers in Yukon offer the Travel and Information has |
handled with perhaps the | Wilderness traveller ‘over surveys of over 15 Yukon
greatest subtlety in this sparse, of SpEcta cia miles of river. Rivers.

skillful novel, Yew Hall. : OER EATER
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In about 1939, the. British
authoress Lucy M. Boston
purchased the ancient semi-_
ruin of a manor house that has
been called the oldest inhabited pus “
house in Fingland. E PHILIP TEECE a YEW HALL

This. house, with its. stone aes meas
walls four feet thick and its

Sorry ‘bout that: Last week The Review ran two pictures, on page
nine, showing members of the North Saanich School’s ecology class

_ painting the exterior of the Resthaven Store.as a class project. We
should have mentioned (but didn’t) that the paint for the project was . : : ns
donated by the local businessman Bill Nasby, whose Sidney Paint hidden. rooms” and - plastered

E k in-
Pot store came up with:enough green and white paint to get the job Ciciine teal coin ot cibeet
done. : & ; k ee B on has ‘haunting- backdrop: of the
every BOOK Lucy. Boston ha Munor’s 50 generations of

written during the past two chequered history,
Mrs, J. Easton has returned to her home on Seventh t., following a ‘decades. |

_the mingling of past and present

iio pumesiecititenseinaas : ‘in Mrs. Boston's venerable

. Like most of the later books Although this theme is the house can be found at the Sidney
Yew Hall tells a story about — basis ofall Luey Boston’s novels library.

modern characters against ‘the

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cenerenuscnsen’ ccele AE fone cca 4
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holiday in Creston, B.C. the Buest of her brother and sister-in-law, Children (and adult readers The narrator of the story tells mo seesommnenents tt TT meee
Mr. and Mrs. V. Cook. of children’s books) will have us that “in such a length of _ Power Raking Moss Killing | seem 4
. _ encor.itered the ghost-visited time. some version of every
Mrs. A. G. Amos, Vancouver, formerly of Sidney, was a visitor to old place under one of its — possible passion good and bad | ‘Fertilizing
Sidney last week, the guest of Mrs. M. Green, Third St. names: Green Knowe. — will have played itself out
=. . ia ae here”!
Mrs. E. Tripp, formerly of Third St., now a resident of Vancouver, .. .. Others will remember Yew So , R. JACKSON LAN DSCAPING

visited the past several days at the home of her son and daughter-in- Hall as — another of Mrs. In this brooding context, the _
law, Mr. and Mrs, W. Tripp, Lochside Drive. Boston's fictional names for her Story's three principal 656-2818

: house. characters act out their own — | —

tragedy and meet a:fate which ©
seems part of an-old pattern:
Any other. path along which
their lives might: have moved _
within the old house would’ just
as precisely have matched
pattern that was already there.

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‘toria Timesman Bruce Obee, late of Tryon and Towner Park Roads, . Yew Hall, has recently been
had moved to Calgary to accept a position with the Calgary Herald... teissued; originally published
He’s back; Obee reports he travelled to Calgary (over Roger’s Pass IN 1954, it. was Mrs. Boston's
in a. VW. camper with a canoe on the roof), looked around the city, . first’ book about her_ Manor
then told his new boss he was sorry, but he just didn't like the city, | House.
quit before he started, turned around and headed back for the coast.
Now comfortably ensconed as a boarder in the home of former

' Review editor George Manning, Obee is back at work as the Saanich
Peninsula bureau chief for the Victoria Express.

‘By private party, nice modern home on large

lot with good View, Sidney or General Saanich

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Talk about. separatism! - Archdeacon R.B. Horsefield, of 2370
_ Ameila, received:a parcel-from Ontario the other day which had,
-pasted. conspicuously’ to the front, a. customs. declaration
"sticker... these little green labels are provided by the post office for -
use when mailing parcels across inter-national boundartes,

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e “Marilyn and Chuck Loveless, of 5825 West. Saanich Road, ‘are
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