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, t

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

The original owner of the property, from 1915 to 1917, is shown as E. Schaefer Morris. It was sold to Flora May Currie in 1918. Property records indicate Irene Stoddart (husband Irving) as the owner in 1919. Their children were Ira, Jean and Irene. The house was designed by Irene Stoddart, and was dark brown with a reddish roof. Daughter Irene attended school on Savary in 1919. According to Gladys Bloomfield, Irene remembered as a child being afraid and crying when the Unio