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

According to the Savary Island Park plan which shows the early subdivision of DL 1373 in 1910, the two lots fronting Malaspina Promenade and two behind on Arbutus Avenue were first owned by a Mr. Thulin of Lund. Records show that from 1912 to 1925 these lots were owned by Harry Keefer and Emma and Ruth Roberts. Known quaintly at that time as “the Misses Roberts”, the sisters also owned the original Savary Inn with Harry Keefer. Around 1926 the lots were purchased by Percy

From 1915 to 1917 the title was registered to Lettie M. Bennett , c/o Keefer and Townley. The house was built in approximately 1915. In 1917 ownership changed to Lilly M. Burnett , wife of Kenneth Lumsden Burnett who also owned the adjacent property to the west. Ruyter S. Sherman , who had camped on the grass in front of the house in 1910 with his wife Nellie and daughter Maud, purchased the property in 1919. He named the house Traumerei , a German word for daydream or reveri