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

Wharf Hill circa 1926 Unbelievable as it sounds, Vancouver Boulevard, Savary’s illustrious and maligned “highway”, was the result of a murder at Mace Point. In February 1910, Vancouver Province crime reporter George Ashworth arrived at Savary to visit the site where trading post owner Jack Green and his partner Tom Taylor had been murdered back in 1893. For his story, Ashworth and his photographer explored the island from end to end, resulting in a glowing article about S

(Excerpts from the Savary Island Heritage Society's collection of writings by Bill Ashworth) June, 1928. The hotel was finished, ready to open. World economy was booming, building up to the peak of prosperity it would reach in 1929. People had money to spend. Reservations came in at a good rate. I made an arrangement with my employers to take my annual vacation in the form of long week-ends; i.e. I would take every Friday off. I could catch the Thursday night steamer at six