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over again.at. a profit. Many
divided. their lot in. half,
30’x120’, .and™ sold each . for

more than was paid for the
original lot.

The turnover was so. great
that. the Land. Register. Office
was six months behind with its
paper work. :

With ~ full employment,
business flourished anda wave
of optimism swept. the ‘city.
With ideal conditions prevail-
ing, the lads who went to work
on farms prefered to stay as one
of the family and enjoy the
pastoral life to that of the
restless city. With fortunes be-
ing made on paper everyone was
sure that Utopia was not around
the corner, it was here. .

Then. ail their. dreams were
shattered with the declaration
-of war in’ 1914. British
migrants in Canada were in the
thousands, Dr. Thomas John
Barnardo, the energetic founder

of. Bardnado’s. Homes, placed

30,000 children in Canada bet-
ween 1890 and 1910. ~
The Salvation Army assisted

thousands more. A big’ percen-

Norrie,

eh: glider on its tour of the province, ae

om erga atemes.,

yey

: :

rene cel incense

em-

ns GROB arrived last week at the'C
“tonal Airport, The ¢ Jerman-built, (raining glider
chased by the B.C, Air Cadet League for:
will be based in Princeton. Cade
1,320 Ib. craft. Ttswingspan is

pate oe a
ae : THE BEACH PEOPLE a
WERE COVERED WITH

> SUNTAN. LOTION=—
SOAKING UP RAYS I

tage went overseas to fight in
the war and many never return-
ed,

After: the. war. emmigration
continued and many emigrants,
with the consent. of — their

parents, volunteered to come to

Canada to farm.

It) was..a tough experience.
Each boy’s name was listed ina
ledger in which all his expenses

~ were noted. Then. when he was
hired by a farmer he was pledg- »

ed to reinburse his benefactors.

One. of the distributing farms
was the Dakeyene Farm, named
after a boys» club. in -Not-
tingham, England. It was
situated in the lush fields. of
Nova Scotia’s. Annapolis
Valley.

It was here a stream of young

boys. from. 15 to 18 years of age-

came to learn farming.

Roy Grant, superintendent of
the farm in 1931, helped one of
the boys, a teenage youth nam-
ed Robert Strachan.

He. noticed in’ Strachan a
resourcefulness © which. struck
him as:special. Four years later,
packing a saw: and hammer,

Strachan said he was going. to

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THE REVIEW

British Columbia to work as a
carpenter.
He became a member of. the

B.C. Legislature, leader of the

opposition from 1950 to: 1969,
then, under Premier Dave. Bar-
rett, minister of highways.

'. When the farm closed in the
thirties; it left. most of the boys
with fond memories to start.a
new life. Robert Strachan’s suc-
cess is indicative of many who
emmigranted to Canada under
the same austere conditions and
who also became leaders in pro-

vincial and. municipal.
goverments throughout
Canada.

Those. on the farms had their
limited education augmented by
reading two. books. The Bible
which told of..Gods word, and
the seed cataglogue which prov-
ed it.

This. gave ..them . confidence

-and faith to meet the challenge .
and ©

of. life’s’ contrariness
missunderstandings. .

_As one of those emmigrants,
-and still alive at 97, my. parents

paid my fare and Mother sewed.

on my underwear an English
soveriegn which disapeared like

Five generations of the Puckett family were under one FOOL recentl ly: fora family reunion. In

‘the. back row, from left to right, are “great-grandfather Howard ‘Puckett: of Spanaway,

Washington; grea t-great-grandmother Lillian Puckett, 83, of Sidney; and grandmoth er Joan:

- Tyler of Central Saanich. In the front row are Joan’s daughters | Joanne Wilson, with her ~
a daughter Anne-Marie, and Camellia Thomas, with ve children Jeremy, Jessica and Crystal.

‘including some from the low al 6 6 nay on, willu use the
S ft., length 26.t, and cruising speed is,100 mph. Major, Don,
regional gliding operations officer of he deific Air Command, Ww ho i dy piloting ihe Bs rt

: Peouintt eran enmantnercemmtent mnt,

YL QUESS THEY WERE.
ALL TRYING TO BE

he

~ Horace Greely and went west to

i celebrating the sinking.

“immigrants
numbered inthe thousands, vee
The legacy. they: left is forgot-
7 ten, now replaced. with the grin-  f
. the

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TANNERS.....,
Pa —— Cora

early

a snowball in June. I arrived in
Toronto with 38 cents and was
sent to. a Niagara Falls area
farm owned by a Mr. Spence. —

I was paid $12 a month. Both
Spence and. his. ‘wife were
religious and the Bible was read
before breakfast. In the even-
ings, I would hear them speak»
about the bliss to come.

They were. over.70 years of
age and, looking back, J feel
that to-have such a faith was a
stimulant to face the inevitable.

I felt. I-was the richest boy in
Canada when | compared my
salary with -my- father’s. two
pound a week as a carpenter. It
seemed incredible.

After a-year.on the farm J
succumbed in 1906 to the call-of

Victoria.

The Empress Hotel was being
built on stilts and Oak Bay and.
Saanich’ were incorporated as
municipalities. Electric street
cars were (the. main means. of
transportation.

Bicycles were. safely
and ‘never.. chained in
theft. Horse. drawn vehicles -
delivered, house. to house,
bread; miik; meat and most of...
the groceries necessary to the
- householder.

Chinamen, ‘carrying bamboo
poles. with’ a wicker basket on

ridden
fear of

each end loaded with
‘vegetables, did «a. > thriving
business ‘serving ‘their’ many

regular customers.

Policemen walked their beats
in-a leisurely’: manner:and. their
benevolent duty was one-of.ad-
miration. There were a dozen:

were seldom called into action.
The great exception was: Vic-

the. Daily Colonist: stunned its

men, “woman and. children died
from. drowning i
“posure.

‘The: riot. was. s brought
by - “the “temerity © of: the pro-
priator. ofthe: Kaisoff ‘Hotel “OF
‘the .-corner of: Pandora” "and
 Blanshard to. display the: Ger

oman flag ontop, of the ‘building © b
“Club. ons.
were. ere

~and..'‘the.German
. Government - ‘street. who |

Both’ places. were.
wrecked and: this led to an un-
“warranted. attack on.

“man names. a

of the millions. who enlisted”

“during: the First and Second

who never came home, those

and their:

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