Don Cunningham

Don Cunningham talks about the Old Days of Salt Spring Island, especially the Japanese Greenhouse down on Sharp Road. When the Japanese were interred, these greenhouses slowly degraded. These greenhouse produced incredible food, much exported off Salt Spring before 1942. His mother was Margaret Purdy, who played piano for the silent movies at Central. His grandmother Mary Inglin, and his great-grandfather was Robert Raffles Augustus Purdy, who started the farm on Beddis Road.