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Brad R. Morison

Turgoose Post Office was
one of the four post offices
established in the South
Saanich district on August
1, 1892. It was named after
its postmaster, Frederic Tur-
goose, the only son of
William and Emma Tur-

goose, a well-known farming
family of the area.

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am “iiam Tur-
-. goose was :
born: on "PHOTO COURTESY OF THE SAANICH PIONEER MUSEUM & ARCHIVES SOCIETY
july 25, The Turgoose home ¥ was the ve designated post office for the area for many years.
1829 at An- are Pee aos
_-caster, Lin- horses except for two teams South ‘Saanich, and. then layson: of ne Hudson’ s Bay:
colnshire, England, andthe and. set off to British Co- - made his way back to.Eng- Company, and the .Rev.j
seventh child of George jumbia via the steamer land to visit family relations. Matthew Macfie, on August:
Turgoose and his wife Char- - Sierra Nevada to chase after - After. reportedly setting 19, 1865, ‘selling the 473
Jotte Cupit. ~~» the “golden butterflies” of up some family members in acres at $10 per acre. At the
Little: is known of his the Cariboo; = business, he:then traveled ~ same time he purchased the;
early years, he.must-have Arriving in Victoria with. "to Illinois during the falland . neighboring farm’ of 100.
received some education at — their best four.horses, they: winter of 1864/1865, taking. acres : for::his~ sister and
| that.time, for he apparently _ engaged in “teaming work”, with him. his sister Betsy. brother-in-law. : "
“was: ‘able to read and write. principally on the Esquimalt and her husband J ohn Dart: -:The families took up f res
‘the age of 23, he and Road, until they had’saved Bryant. denice the next month, after
‘his.older brother Isaac im-. : Theres he = -‘iarried ; his :-fixing-the four-room house
migrated to. the United “sweetheart, ._Emma,. the. ~ that went with the land. .
States with the- family. of . daughter of: Abraham and ~ : Isaac Turgoose, who was
“Abraham Pope. While resid-. Sarah Pope, ‘on April 6, 1865 ~~ k
eee

“the: ate coo.
jiliam :-and Is: tained shares in the: ‘Rai e

cided. to travel, to California = and: Peterborough: Mining:
- in 1860/ 61: Crossing. the — :

Claims on: Williams Creek.
plains by covered wagon, __Little is, known. of: their -at'a-boarding house ‘on Fort:
~. with 18 horses, three of the. success with the claim on’. Street and traveled again to
. mares. being in foal. Appar- Lightning Creek or their Pe- the Cariboo with. Isaac: to-
“ently, Indians raided the — terborough Claim, but the sell their interests in the
"wagon train previous to. Rabey Claim became one of ~ Rabey claim: They sold

_theirs, for the cattle and the the richest in the area. - their shares. on July ° "11, shortly after, and: was last.
one after, but William and After making a ‘pot'of 1865... heard as being in Nevada in
Isaac completed the journey ~ ‘money, the Turgoose broth- Back in Victoria ‘William: 1870 working on the, rail
without incident: "ers returned. to. Victoria. completed his Jand. pur- © way.

They ‘reached” ‘Sacra William placed‘a large de-- chase -with’ Dr. Henry A. | Being very “interested in

Mento and sold all of their : posit on 473 acres of land i in: Tuzo and Roderick Fin- ; Conninuen ON PAGE 21

“he got into: trouble with t
law: when his hotel: becami

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