3152 MALASPINA PROMENADE The property was registered to Thomas Booker of Vancouver from 1915 to 1918. A house was built in 1917. The second owner was Emily Wootten of Vancouver who purchased the property in 1918. She named the house The Nest. THE NEST In 1930 it was sold to Elmer Charles Lee (wife Kay) of Seattle, secretary of the Powell River Company. In 1935 he extended the house on each side. Elmer and Kay had two daughters, Norma (m. Wood) and Gloria (m. Horrigan). In

by Ron Thacker When I was a child in the late 1960s, I remember Dad telling of an island that the family once owned, ‘back in the day'. Then, however, I was far more interested in the sitcom Gilligan’s Island than in talking about some distant relatives, on a distant island, from some distant time. As the years passed, so did those relatives and the stories they held concerning that real estate. Without provenance, that history dissociated into strands of undusted lore an

The Oldest House Currently on the Island By Sherwood Inglis In the 1870’s, under the BC Homestead Act, Savary Island was divided into five District Lots — DL1372, 1373, 1375, 1376 and 1377 (for whatever reason, there does not appear to be a DL1374). In 1888, Jack Green preempted the 160 acres of DL1372, located at the eastern end of Savary. Between 1888 and 1891 he also preempted the 317 acre DL1375 at mid-island and DL1377 at the western end. And on October 3, 18