“PAGE FOURTEEN SAANICH PENINSULA AND GULF ISLANDS REVIEW

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The settlers. crowded into the “Big House.” ‘They were there,

-along with Governor. Douglas, to witness a momentous event:
the birth of British Columbia. .

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Century, to. remember.

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