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017 – 15 November 1997 Edith Yardley lived at the corner of Morningside and Orchard Road in Fulford Harbour. She was a member of a group of older south-end women known as the ‘Fulford Mafia’.

022.1 – 29 December 1998 Laura Roland grew up on Mayne Island where as a young girl she fished from a rowboat in Active Pass. She married into the Roland family, a noted Kanaka family on Saltspring. She lived on Roland Road where this video was shot. 

024.2 – 2 December 1998 Lassie Dodds lived on Rainbow Road where this video was shot. In her earlier years she worked as a handyperson at the first Lady Minto Hospital. 

034 – 29 November 1998 Jean Hollings was a Fulford icon. Her husband Fred lived on the first house up Orchard Road. She was the Fulford Postmistress and was noted for making incredible pies which supplied to Nans Restaurant at Fulford Harbour. 

062 – 10 January 2000  Margaret was daughter of J.H. Monk who a large property on Eleanor Point up to Beaver Point Road. Her and her husband Harry Bapty were given a 32-acre parcel of that farm which included the end of Eleanor Point. Her husband Harry was a geologist and they lived off-island …

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Part 1 – 9 November 2001 079-080 Part 2 – 9 November 2001 079-080 Taken at the home of Joyce Hope on Beddis Road. He was a gypo logger in the early days and his father ran the restaurant in Fulford Harbour, now known as ‘Rock Salt Restaurant’. He was a land developer and built …

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080 – 14 November 2001 David Weatherall and others gave a talk to Salt Spring Historical Society.

083 – 18 June 2003  353 – 25 September 2007 072 – 19 November 2001 019 – 1 July 1999 361 – 26 May 2006 371-372 – 25 August 2008 The Creation of Ruckle Provincial Park Lotus Ruckle arrived on Saltspring about 1920 at age 10. Her father Cory Mehinick had bought a large …

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080-085 – 14 November 2001

100 – 31 July 2002 Gwen’s slide show at the barn at Ruckle Park. She was the daughter of Lotus and Gordon Ruckle. She loved giving slide shows of the Ruckle history, which she did for tourists in the Ruckle barn. She was known to be a talented painter and was a prodigious storyteller.