ISLANDERS! - Salt Spring Island Archives

Page Eight ,
Islanders at Work
GULF ISLANDS DRIFTWOOD
Wednesday, July 14, 1976
Feature by
Valerie Richards
Early days of liquor store lost in history
LLOYD MARTIN retired from the army to settle on Salt Spring.
YOUR
STATION
24 Hour
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537-2911
S. S. ISLAND GARAGE LTD.
Ganges
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Due to the abstemiousness of
the islands little information on the
history of the Ganges liquor store is
available. In fact, no information is
available except for the more
recent instance of the liquor store
move.
The store was once located on
Fulford-Ganges Road, in the building
that later became the Driftwood
office and now stands as Salt
Spring Stationery store.
In 1964, the cement block
building on McPhillips Avenue was
completed and the liquor store
moved, leaving their iron bars
behind them.
Driftwood then moved from two
doors north to two doors south and
took over the building. Vendors at
the Ganges Liquor Store include
some old timers and new.
Bert Motion comes from Scotland
but that's obvious to all. He
grew up in Edinburgh and left to
join the army in 1938. He spent
eight years in the army and in '46
returned to his home town. It
wasn't until 1956 that Bert Motion
came to Canada, landing in Victoria
where he worked for four years
before coming to Salt Spring.
Bob Petty has been with the
Liquor Control Board for 21 years,
first starting in Kitimat. He has
worked in Langley, as well as the
northern islands, the Queen Charlottes.
Seven years ago Bob Petty
came to Salt Spring where the days
arc a little quieter.
FIRST OF THE CLAN
Frank Cunningham was the
first of the Haney Cunningham
BOB PETTY has been with the
Liquor Control Board for over 20
years.
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