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savaryheritage
Dec 13, 20243 min read
3083 Arbutus Avenue
The Upper House (Graphite Image by Laine Dahlen) From 1915 to 1922 the property was registered to R.S. Sherman, c/o Keefer and Townley....
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savaryheritage
Nov 29, 20243 min read
3010 Malaspina Promenade
From 1915 to 1917 the property was registered to the Vancouver Trust Company. In 1918 it was purchased by R.W. Bridge of 2027 W. 36th...
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savaryheritage
Nov 29, 20241 min read
3044 Malaspina Promenade
P. Lamont was listed as the first owner (children Peter, Don and Mary), from 1915 to 1925. According to Gladys Bloomfield, the original...
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savaryheritage
Nov 11, 20242 min read
3068 Malaspina Promenade
The property was registered in1915 to Alice Grey Shine , c/o R.S. Sherman. It was purchased in 1920 by Vancouver dentist Dr. Frank...
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savaryheritage
Nov 11, 20244 min read
3069 Townley Walk
(The address was changed from 3069 Arbutus Avenue to 3069 Townley Walk in the 1990s by Libby Sharp) Â Â T he property is located behind...
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savaryheritage
Nov 9, 20242 min read
3091 Arbutus Avenue & 3070 Malaspina Promenade
3070 Malaspina Promenade is a ten-foot easement, originally part of 3074 Malaspina Promenade, the adjacent property to the east, owned by...
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savaryheritage
Oct 29, 20242 min read
2928 Malaspina Promenade
The first registered owner was Mrs. Ethel Herchmer, the adjacent property owner who used the lot as part of her extensive garden. The...
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savaryheritage
Oct 28, 20241 min read
2924 Malaspina Promenade
From 1915 to 1922 the property was registered in the name of Rena Wye of Vancouver and then changed to A.L. McKillop , also of...
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savaryheritage
Oct 8, 20242 min read
2994 Malaspina Promenade
Harry Leroy Jenkins  was listed as the property owner from 1915 to 1918. Jenkins was a lumber baron who at one time owned all the logging...
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savaryheritage
Oct 7, 20242 min read
3059 Arbutus Avenue
The owner of the property from 1915 to 1916 was shown as A. Pharn of Vancouver. In 1917 the owner was listed as J.B. Parham  of the...
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savaryheritage
Jun 5, 20242 min read
3036 Malaspina Promenade
In 1912, Ruiter Stinson Sherman purchased lot 19 from the Vancouver Trust Company, whose president was Harry Leroy Jenkins. The house...
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savaryheritage
Jun 2, 20243 min read
2942 Malaspina Promenade
The original Savary Inn,  a two-storey structure located at the head of the wharf, was built by Harry Keefer  in 1913. From 1915 to 1924,...
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savaryheritage
Jun 1, 20242 min read
3032 Malaspina Promenade
The property of four lots was purchased by S. Buchanan  in 1915. The Married Women’s Property Act of 1900 allowed a wife to own property...
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savaryheritage
May 29, 20242 min read
  3074 Malaspina Promenade
The first house on the property was built in 1912 by  Louis Anderson who had originally arrived on Savary as a logger. He was the second...
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savaryheritage
May 27, 20242 min read
2950 Malaspina Promenade
This iconic yellow stucco-clad home at the foot of the Savary wharf was built in 1924 by Ashton and Maud Spilsbury and their son Jim. The...
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savaryheritage
May 25, 20242 min read
2932 Malaspina Promenade
Arbutus Cottage was built by  Colonel Laurence Herchmer in 1911/1912 for his wife Ethel (nee Ashworth), and daughter Laurencia. They had...
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savaryheritage
May 25, 20242 min read
3022 Malaspina Promenade
The property of six lots was purchased in approximately 1915 by Henry Oswald Wootten  and Emily Louise Wootten  (children Geoffrey,...
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