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Canadian Publications Mail Product Sales Agreement Nº 40020421 Volume 18 Number 13 Your Coastal Community Newspaper July 13, 2006 Tide tables 2 Saturna notes 3 Letters 4 Bulletin board 7 Ferry crew performs marine rescue off Saturna Four youngsters from Tsawwassen and their families were rescued from rough waters just east of Saturna Island on Wednesday, July 5 as darkness set in. The Queen of Vancouver, which left Swartz Bay at 8pm, heading for Tsawwassen, picked up a May-Day call at about 9pm on Channel 16—the channel that monitors all marine traffic. The ferry had just left Active Pass for open seas but immediately altered course and prepared for an emergency. Two crew members raced to the scene in a rigid hull rescue vessel. They found a 27-foot sailboat heading for rocks on Anniversary Island. The crew loaded the children and their mothers into the rescue boat when the Coast Guard cutter arrived. Apparently, Coast Guard officials experienced some difficulty determining the position of the sailboat since its operator didn’t know his exact location. Queen of Vancouver crew gave the Photo: Wendi Lopatecki towline over to the Coast Guard who An Island youngster laughs amongst the trees at Roesland, part of the National Park Reserve on . towed the sailboat, with the fathers aboard to the . According to Deborah Marshall, media liaison with BC Ferries in Victoria, the sailboat had Study says BC’s Salt Spring grandmother goes north to been under power but its motor failed. Winds blowing from the south-east at 30 marine protected to view the climate crisis for herself knots were tossing the boat around in 4 to On Canada Day, 75-year-old grandmother Noted filmmaker Alan Bibby of Salt Spring 5 ft waves. areas need help Dorothy Cutting left on a ‘Climate Crisis’ Island plans to make a documentary of The children seemed dazed and glad ‘There are 130 marine protected areas (MPAs) on journey to Northern Canada. Cutting’s travels, and Dorothy will be carrying a to be out of their scary adventure. No Canada’s Pacific coast but they may not be effectively Most grandmothers of four are looking small camcorder to record interviews with injuries were reported. shielding key marine ecosystems,’ says Dr Rosaline forward to a summer by the lake watching the people in the First Nations and Inuit Canessa, a University of Victoria geographer. kids grow and maybe doing a little babysitting, communities. Ferry jumper not Canessa, a computer mapping specialist who studies but not Dorothy Cutting. This grandmother is ‘While people and wildlife in the Arctic will how human activity affects the ocean environment, worried about the kind of future her four experience the largest effects of climate change, superman was one of the contributors to the BC Coastal grandchildren will have if she doesn’t do as sea-ice melts so too do the planet’s glaciers A red-faced Mayne Islander who took a Environment Project, the results of which were something about global warming, which she and ice sheets. The inevitable rise in sea level shortcut to a baseball game by jumping released in June by the BC Ministry of Environment. calls global heating. ‘Warming sounds too soft will affect every coastal community and city off a BC ferry and swimming ashore last For the project, Canessa analysed information on and cuddly,’ she says. worldwide. Dorothy’s actions are reminding us summer, pled guilty in court July 5, 2006 the status of MPAs on the coast—where they are, how ‘I want our neighbours in the North to know we must all act now to minimize these changes,’ to mischief. Jay Leggatt missed the direct big they are, what they’re supposed to be protecting, that we care about what is happening to their stated Colin Campbell, BC Chapter of the Sierra ferry at Swartz Bay. Instead he rode a and how well they’re succeeding. Her analysis shows homeland and their way of life,’ says Cutting, Club’s marine campaign coordinator. Tsawwassen-bound ship. Imagining a mix of different types of MPAs established by who will travel to Inuvik in her Honda Civic In 2002, after reading the late Robert himself swimming to a beach, then several federal and provincial agencies, each with Hybrid and then fly to Tuktoyaktuk and Old Hunter’s book, 2030: Confronting their own mandate. ‘A lot of people think that MPAs walking inland to meet his teammates, he Crow. Thermageddon in Our Lifetime, Cutting are areas where no human activity can happen, but stuffed his sports things into a plastic As global heating melts the polar icecap, bought a hybrid car and drove across Canada to many are subject to pressures from within, such as garbage bag to help keep him afloat. He Canada’s northern peoples face the disruption present a copy of the book to every MP in harvesting and recreation, and threats from outside, thought no one would notice him leaping of their food sources and cultural systems. Ottawa. Along the way Dorothy spoke to into the waters of Active Pass. It was not such as forestry,’ she says. Habitat for northern species is under threat, Canadians about the need to take climate to be. Canada’s Pacific coast MPAs are generally very and researchers predict that polar bears will change seriously. Not only did passengers detect him, small and only cover 0.5% of the marine environment Cutting, no stranger to environmental the ship’s crew went into instant rescue (defined as beyond intertidal out to the continental become extinct by 2025 if global heating mode. So did the police and Coast Guard. shelf). Many are add-ons to protected areas on land. continues unabated. As NASA scientist James activism, is considered the mother of the For his trouble, the 45-year-old man Most are provincially designated, but the federal Hansen says they will, in effect, ‘be pushed off Washington State Shorelines Management Act sustained a variety of injuries, received a government controls some activities in them, such as the planet.’ and was influential in the passage of numerous conditional discharge and six months’ fishing. ‘Canada’s North is experiencing some of the other US environmental bills. She immigrated probation from the court, and a bill from ‘We need to monitor the marine ecosystems in most rapid warming in the world. The effects of to Canada from Seattle in 1992 and became a BC Ferries for nearly $1,400. In addition, MPAs so we can better assess the threats to them,’ she this warming have serious consequences for Canadian citizen in 1998. Leggatt has been banned from sailing says. ‘And there needs to be greater federal-provincial the rest of the planet,’ says Michael Westlake, Cutting and Bibby call their journey to the aboard any of the corporation’s fleet, coordination so that their individual mandates coordinator for the Northern Climate north ‘carbon neutral.’ All emissions from their making it impossible to continue living together create more effective MPAs.’ ExChange. ‘We see Dorothy’s journey as a way travel by car and by air are being off-set by on . For the full details of this project visit: to connect the people of the North and South to investment in renewable and conservation He has apologized to all concerned. www.env.gov.bc.ca/soe/bcce/. the reality of this enormous issue.’ initiatives. Page 2, ISLAND TIDES, July 13, 2006 Tourist Alert Visit the Black Nugget on Thursday night ore and more bijou attractions are opening around the Managed by the three Jones brothers, David, Morgan and Salish Sea. When travelling on the coast don’t expect Walter (Walter later became known as the Oyster King), it was AT FULFORD HARBOUR Mprepackaged tourism but do expect a patchwork of an upper middle class hotel with a reputation for gambling. JULY local history and specialities, lovingly and proudly presented by Within the hotel was a great saloon with slot machines and locals. No Disney here—books, art, crafts, music, buildings, poker games. This went on for a while until someone got shot in Day Time Ht./ft. Ht./m. Day Time Ht./ft. Ht./m. farms, vineyards, events are local-scale. Apart from the scenery, the bar. After that, they moved the poker game into a special 0221 10.5 3.2 0617 2.6 0.8 you won’t find ‘spectacular’ around the Salish Sea (Strait of room and had a knife and gun check to avoid further violence. 11 1041 0.0 0.0 19 1441 8.9 2.7 TU 1921 11.2 3.4 WE 1712 8.9 2.7 Georgia to the uninitiated) In October 1908, gold was spotted MA 2337 9.8 3.0 ME 2251 10.5 3.2 but you will find the real in the street outside the hotel. Soon 0319 10.5 3.2 0705 2.0 0.6 thing. people were digging up the street and 12 1126 0.0 0.0 20 1553 9.8 3.0 Don’t expect 24/7; most the great ‘gold rush’ was on. It was WE 1951 11.2 3.4 TH 1858 9.5 2.9 ME JE 2323 10.5 3.2 attractions are part of actual short-lived, however, when it became life as it is lived—much more known that Lodwick had been gilding 0032 9.2 2.8 0753 1.3 0.4 13 0418 10.2 3.1 21 1644 10.5 3.2 European than North the bar room mirrors and some of the TH 1210 0.7 0.2 FR 2051 9.8 3.0 American. But so much is gilding had washed into the street. JE 2018 11.2 3.4 VE available you will not fail to An extension was added during 8.5 3.1 0134 2.6 0006 10.2 bump into something BC’s short-lived prohibition. The 14 0523 9.5 2.9 22 0839 1.3 0.4 FR 1252 1.3 0.4 SA 1727 10.8 3.3 curious or interesting on your addition was designed to fulfill the legal VE 2045 11.2 3.4 SA 2207 9.8 3.0 journey. Talk to locals for a requirements for a liquor licence. The THE BLACK NUGGET 0239 7.5 2.3 0059 10.2 3.1 catalogue of the unexpected. extra rooms built were never used as 15 0641 8.5 2.6 23 0924 1.0 0.3 they proved inaccessible. The Jones SA 1334 2.6 0.8 SU 1806 10.8 3.3 If you are prepared to meander down the backroads and stop SA 2110 11.2 3.4 DI 2253 9.5 2.9 for fifteen minutes here, there and everywhere; that fabulous Hotel went out of business in 1930 and was eventually sold to the Fraternal Order of Eagles who made it their lodge. In 1972, Kurt 0341 6.2 1.9 0153 10.2 3.1 scenery will gain depth and meaning as you tune in to life on the 16 0820 7.9 2.4 24 1006 1.3 0.4 coast, past and present. Guilbride bought the hotel from the Eagles, restored it and SU 1416 4.3 1.3 MO 1841 10.8 3.3 opened the Black Nugget Museum. According to stories, not only DI 11.2 3.4 LU 2332 9.5 2.9 2135 A Nugget of BC History does history linger here but also a ghost or two. Strange 0437 4.9 1.5 0244 9.8 3.0 A case in point is ‘Ladysmith Live Thursday Evenings.’ This July 1.3 0.4 occurrences have been reported. There is an elephant that sits on 17 1023 7.5 2.3 25 1045 and August, a new addition to the beautiful little town’s MO 1500 5.9 1.8 TU 1911 10.8 3.3 a fireplace mantel that has turned around 180º on more than one LU 2159 11.2 3.4 MA Thursday line-up is the Black Nugget museum, which will be occasion when nobody was around. open from 5–8pm. 0528 3.6 1.1 0010 9.2 2.8 Operated this summer by the Ladysmith & District Historical 18 1241 7.9 2.4 26 0332 9.5 2.9 The Black Nugget houses turn of the century memorabilia Society, the society hopes to be able to increase museum hours 2.3 1121 1.6 TU 1554 7.5 WE 0.5 and is itself a building with quite a history. Originally known as MA 2224 10.8 3.3 ME 1934 10.8 3.3 but needs more volunteers. If you are staying longer, are not the Miners’ Hotel, it was moved from Wellington to Ladysmith afraid of ghosts and would like to volunteer at the museum, call ADD ONE HOUR FOR DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME in 1900 by Lodwick Jones and renamed the Jones Hotel. 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Following the General Board meeting there will be a one-hour Open House to allow for a general exchange of thoughts, suggestions and concerns between the VIHA Board and senior management staff and the general public. ISLAND TIDES, July 13, 2006, Page 3 Saturna Notes ~ Priscilla Ewbank hree weeks of virtually cloudless skies are welcomed. Park interpreter Angela Holmes Enjoy the islands...... visit www.islandtides..com have left Saturna bone dry. Island cars will offer kids’ activities, nature tidbits and Tare dust-caked, you can tell who has a national park information. dirt driveway from the state of their car’s rear Saturna Paddlers from the Small Boat Club window. are offering organized destination paddles with FUEL-EFFICIENT, COST-EFFECTIVE WOOD HEATING Tinder Dry potluck lunches and dinners. Check the bulletin Fire comes to mind often. I worry about visitors boards for information about each paddle and not understanding our precarious situation how to sign up. This enthusiastic bunch is a under such dry conditions. I wish that cigarette pleasure to be with and they are well versed in butts were as appealing to smokers as the kayak paddling. nicotine-soaked front ends. People would Lamb BBQ 2006 Serving the Gulf Islands & Greater Victoria smoke them or eat them and not be tempted to ‘ T o All The Hard Working People Who Gave pitch them away. A complete fire ban is in So Generously of Their Time For the Good of For over 25 Years effect, you can read the details at the local the Community: Thank You! We Generated stores. I am glad we have such an excellent fire Another Successful Barbeque.’ With these Sales / Installations department and am thankful for all the willing parting words from Donna Curwen, our hours they put in practicing and training. Saturna Lamb BBQ coordinator, Saturna Water usage is another issue. Wells are citizenry sails into summer knowing we did a Ark Solar Products Ltd. having a hard time keeping up and the fine job of our annual community fundraising #6 – 1950 Government Street, Victoria, BC community water system’s reservoir is event. We sold all the lamb dinners possible dropping. Tough water decisions will have to be (1,100) from 26 fine lambs raised on Saturna. Phone: (250) 386-7643 made unless we get lots of rain, soon! Metering We sold almost all of the beer, wine and cider. has been agreed upon for the water system as a And every bit as important, by all reports, step to understand what we do use. visitors had a wonderful time. From the lamb "See Li for all your Gulf Islands Real Estate!" Thanks to John Wiznuk who covered the carvers to the dunk tank operators to the beer news front while I went to visit the ‘rellies’ in garden hosts, everyone commented on how Washington DC. I missed two Island events easy and mellow the crowd was. that I love to attend: the Island talent show We had great support from the RCMP who fundraiser for the Arts and Concerts Society brought a congenial presence and needed to and the school kids’ end of year celebrations. issue no citations, and from Parks Canada who Both events were very well attended and both were pleased with the event. The Salt Spring were chock full of Island talent. Band made a joyful sound, the nail driving Recycling contests and the gunny sack races were loads of Pender Island: Oceanfront with sweeping fun. Notorious Al Sewell, local developer : Lovely 3 bed home with The Island was full of visitors for the Lamb panoramic oceanview, S/SW/W great covered deck, sep. 2-storey studio, BBQ weekend, and either they have stayed or celebrity, raised $150 by cheerfully exposures, 3 bed modern home, vegetable garden, located close to Ganges, more have come to replace them! Recycling volunteering to go in the dunk tank. community water. Superb! $948,300 lots of space & sun here. A pleasure! was jam-packed on Wednesday—which is a The day was gorgeous, the very definition of $387,500 wonderful statement in itself. The Saturna summer—hot enough for hats and sunscreen, General Store had no garbage around it on our with a bright little breeze and no clouds busiest weekend of the year. I can attest that the anywhere. The tide was low, but not emphasis Recycling places on education, and excessively. Winter Cove was crammed with the happy manner in which it is carried out, boats and zodiacs buzzing in and out to the really makes a difference to our Island roads wharf. John Gaines, Ken Wilson, and Chuck and public places. Crowley were there to lend a hand, keep the During the BBQ, Recycling has an area on upper dock open and to keep an eye on moored the grounds for sorting waste, and lots of staff boats. Nancy Angermeyer and the crew of the Wise Island: Sunny oceanfront lot, access to to answer any questions. This makes a huge Saturnina, our 6-oar replica Spanish longboat, Salt Spring Island: Sea glimpses, 5 bed / 4 bath home, inlaw suite potential, games water system, S/SW/W exposures, close to difference in how much time it takes afterwards ferried delighted visitors back and forth from room, great kitchen, elegant living & Galiano’s Montague Harbour. $310,000 to return the Winter Cove ball field to its the wharf to their boats. family areas, sep. garage / workshop. In original state. Besides Donna and Dave Curwen and popular area! $659,500 Goings On Michael Goldrick, who deserve great praise, I Parks Canada is offering activities each would like to thank Rick Jones and Jacquie weekend, check the bulletin boards for details. Campbell. As site manager, Rick answered a Led by park interpreter Angela Holmes, some million questions/problems with good cheer topics covered will be otters, geology, water and and able assistance for three days running. weather. Jacquie played the same role at the Community The Saturday Market at the Saturna Hall where food prep was done. General Store parking lot will run throughout All this excellent coordination was being the summer. 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What brothel at 643 Herald Street— impressed me more, however, was the ‘high class’ part. It also so notorious that when sold for impressed me that my godfather, the Major-General who made taxes in 1920 its numbers were SALISH SEA’S ONLY FREE & an honest woman of her, refused to have ‘certain of her lady changed to 679. MAIL DELIVERY NEWSPAPER friends’ at Farthing Field—their country estate. Mother also Later, she purchased a warned me about the ‘white slave trade,’ a notion that smacked, second house—a luxurious in my young mind, of things mysterious, romantic, and oriental. mansion overlooking The 8,500 copies delivered to I know better now. Not from direct experience, I hasten to Gorge, which she furnished and decorated to perfection. Her Southern Islands’ households say. clientele—more properly known as habitués—were frequently Linda J Eversole introduced me to Estella Hannah Carroll, members of Victoria’s elite. firstborn child of Ben Carroll (son of the local mayor) and his Some looked upon ‘working ladies’ in the ‘resorts, road or young wife, Tilly. The birth took place in Bourbon, Missouri carriage houses, parlour or sporting houses’ as a ‘necessary evil,’ (population: 300), on October 23, 1872. Following her mother’s thinking that they deterred rapists and protected ‘decent’ death when Stella was 10 years old, the girl took over the running women. A good madam like Stella, who ran her high-class of the home, caring for her father, two little brothers and a Parlour House on The Gorge, and the other slightly less well- younger sister—even helping build a sod house after her father appointed Herald Street house—ran both with decorum. To set moved them to West Kansas. up her businesses in the first place, she had to be financially well- 12,500 copies on the Ferry Routes, Born into a world where women were not even regarded as heeled to draw the kind of ‘sporting girl’ who would bring back in Sidney,Victoria & north of the second-class, but simply expected to manage the household and the customers time after time. Said ‘girl’s’ wardrobe alone cost an ever-growing number of children 24/7, Stella wanted out. An in the region of $6,000. After all, ‘Ratty looking women get no Malahat to Nanaimo intelligent, attractive and independent woman whose play from men…. No outfit, no work.’ The Gorge house made www.islandtides.com entrepreneurial skills ran in high gear, she realized that the only very good money. way a woman could get ahead was in business. And the only Police and lawmakers had mixed feelings about the houses. ISLAND TIDES PUBLISHING Ltd business that appeared to satisfy her cravings for the finer things Lawyers used the services of the ‘ladies of the night/of joy/of the Box 55, Pender Island, BC, V0N 2M0 in life was to manage a bawdy house. evening;’ then made money off their brushes with the law. Stella The word ‘bawdy’ when attached to the word ‘house’ is found herself not infrequently double-crossed by her own legal Owner, Publisher & Editor: Christa Grace-Warrick merely a legal term, author Eversole tells us. The original word advisor, politicians and city fathers. The public ignored or Contributors: Priscilla Ewbank, Trysh Ashby-Rolls, ‘bawdy’ comes from the French baud meaning to be merry. abhorred the houses of ill fame. Generally they were tolerated, as Peter Easthope, Wendi Lopateki Stella set about learning her chosen profession, both studying STELLA, please turn to page 7 Tel: 250-629-3660 • Fax: 629-3838 the San Francisco scene, talking to experienced madams, and Email:[email protected] & [email protected] Deadline: Wednesday between Publications Readers’ Letters Off-Island Canadian Subscriptions $42.80 PROTEST IN QUALICUM BEACH Voluntary Mail & Box Pick-up Subscriptions $21.40 Poets Cove Trial Delayed Again Dear Editor: At the pre-trial hearing for Poets Cove this week, it was announced that the setting of a trial date has once again been delayed. The Crown and Defence indicated that they would like meet together to discuss the evidence prior to further court JAKOBSEN proceedings. ASSOCIATES We fear that Crown Counsel and Poets Cove may be moving toward an out-of-court settlement to resolve the case. 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Clubbing baby seals in front of We believe that the public deserves to hear the details of the their mothers is barbaric.’ Poets Cove case in court, not a quietly negotiated backroom Furthermore, if you read the website, you will see that the What are your business deal in private. needs to publicly seals did not kill the cod industry—man did. As you read on you denounce Poets Cove’s actions and send a message to other will also see that killing the seals is counter-productive to fish options? developers to obey the law that protects our provincial heritage numbers. Find out from your in BC. The whole world is watching Canada and we do not project a Gulf Islands’ alternative Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group, Ladysmith good picture with this. To quote Mahatma Gandhi, ‘The greatness of a nation and it’s moral progress can be judged by the energy specialists Stop the Seal Slaughter way it’s animals are treated.’ In that regard Canada is failing Energy Options Dear Editor: miserably. It’s time to stop this archaic practice and time to be a On Sunday, July 2, Anthony Marr, a passionate protector and more civilized and compassionate country. [email protected] 250-537-8371 lover of animals and activist passed through Qualicum Beach R. Kraft, Qualicum Beach 364 Lower Ganges Rd., Salt Spring Island travelling from Victoria to Campbell River. The distance Canadian Graduation Time electrical contractors • solar • wind • microhydro systems represents the length of dead seals lined up nose to tail or Dear Editor: 340,000 dead seals slaughtered every year. Lord Asquith School is in Asquith, Saskatchewan, a few miles Although most people are disgusted with the way these baby west of Saskatoon. 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LETTERS from page 6 STELLA from page 4 school to the community. This central Saskatchewan town is a As a stranger, I was beginning to be able to identify each of long as the ‘resort’ was ‘not in our neighbourhood.’ very different part of Canada. I can’t say whether it’s a better the grads, and start to understand some of the ‘in’ jokes that It was a tough business for Stella to be in, and her life was place for kids to grow up. Maybe the kids find its long-term formed the basis of remarks by the valedictorian (who one of ‘highs and lows, poverty and wealth, joy and pain.’ Yet stability rather limiting, and yearn to get away. commented, reasonably politely, on each of his classmates), a never again did she experience what she most feared—living in Maybe our island communities in the Salish Sea can learn speech by one of the teachers (who told us a little more about a sod house with its walls weeping mud after a rain shower. something from Asquith, though. After all, bringing up kids is each individual) and finally a video, which included baby and This is the ideal book for anyone who enjoys a well- our most important activity. growing-up photos of each grad, plus a very short but obviously Patrick Brown, Pender Island researched, well-written historical non-fiction—especially one much anticipated piece of video demonstrating how not to ride replete with rascals, rapscallions and scandals along with a peek a skateboard while being towed by a pickup truck. Ferry Reservation Check-In Change into the world’s oldest profession at the turn of the century. The students’ own remarks consistently emphasized the Dear Editor: As to my grandmother, who would have ‘practiced’ at about importance of the support given them by their parents and I am seldom surprised by the thinking or lack of thinking from the same time as Stella—whatever her story, it went with her to families, and the community. By the time all this was over, I BC Ferries. They have gone back to the 40-minute check-in for the grave. really felt I knew them all quite well—a sort of combined mass travellers with reservations to accommodate people who don't Stella: Unrepentant Madam, Linda J. Eversole, 2005, Touch biography and roast. have reservations. So the people who thought in advance to book Wood Editions, $19.95. These kids were not small achievers though, Asquith had their passage to the Gulf Islands from Tsawwassen, and I take been close to the top in the provincial volleyball championships liberty in assuming they are the regular travellers, must be there four years in a row, and numerous banners in the gym revealed 10 minutes earlier so the people who didn’t or couldn’t be LANCE VAESEN ROOFING a long history of provincial championship teams from this small bothered to make reservations can be accommodated and we 1184 SUMMIT AVE, VICTORIA school. The top student (96%) was on Canada’s national fencing can all leave on time. team, having started her involvement in this sport in a garage in Not to mention the passengers who book their tickets do so STANDING SEAM METAL ROOFING Asquith. via credit card and provide payment in advance and eliminate Their individual ambitions ranged from being ‘Queen of the any handling expense. Also these advance bookings provide BC FO R WATER COLLECTION SYSTEMS World’ to, more realistically, engineering school or veterinary Ferries plenty of time to tally the load for that sailing. ALSO college. Most expected to go away for post-secondary education. Management should rethink how they treat their customers and TORCH-ON MEMBRANE, SHAKE & SHINGLE Whether they will come back to live we don’t know, but it’s clear instead of changing the cut-off time for their reserved customers 250-381-2157 CELL 250-361-5028 where home will always be. they might push back the cut-off time 10 minutes for the standby FAX 250-383-2198 What struck me more than anything was the incredible customers. stability of this small community, and the importance of the Hugh Gillis, Vancouver/Pender Island Serving the Gulf Islands for 21 Years

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