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...

In 1912, Ruiter Stinson Sherman purchased lot 19 from the Vancouver Trust Company, whose president was Harry Leroy Jenkins. The house...

Original Savary Inn far left The original Savary Inn, a two-storey structure located at the head of the wharf, was built by Harry Keefer...

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...

The first house on the property was built in 1912 by Lewis Anderson who had originally arrived on Savary as a logger. He was the second non-indigenous person to live on the island, the first being John Green (Green's Point). This was the second Savary house Lewis had built, as he needed more space for his wife Irene (nee Palmer) and their growing family of five children — Pearl, Terry, Andre, Jim and Sylvia. Two more children were born after their move, Walter and Julie. He h

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...

Arbutus Cottage was built by Colonel Laurence Herchmer in 1911/1912 for his wife Ethel (nee Ashworth), and daughter Laurencia. They had first heard about Savary from Ethel’s brother George Ashworth and his wife Kate and Ethel’s sister and brother-in-law, Alice and C.R. (Bob)Townley. They travelled from Vancouver by Union Steamship to Lund, staying in the Lund Hotel where they were greeted by the owners, Mr. and Mrs. Thulin. A launch delivered them to the beach at Savary whe

The property of six lots was purchased in approximately 1915 by Henry Oswald Wootten and Emily Louise Wootten (children Geoffrey, Philip, David Oswald (Ossie) and Cora). H.O. Wootten with son Ossie, daughter Cora and wife Emily (standing) around 1918 The family lived in a tent on the property until 1917, when a three-bedroom plus sleeping porch house was built by Savary resident and prolific builder William Mace. They named the house “Heart’s Ease”. Mr. Mace constructed bea