My PARENTS' WORK - District of Saanich

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SAANICH MEMOREIS PROJECT COMMITTEE Councillor Judy Brownoff, Chair, Healthy Saanich Commirree Jane Glen, Saanich Community Services Ada Bone Anne Lansdell, Saanich Heritage & Archival Committee Ken Stofer Trustee Helen Parker, School District No. 63 Louise Parton Joan Grivel, Director, Saanich Silver Threads Gary Weir, Goward House FUNDING PROVIDED By: Corporation of the DiStrict of Saanich Victoria Foundation British Columbia 2000 Fund - M arking the Millennium Kiwanis Club (Saanich Branch) Alpha Home Care Services Limited Reid Crowther & Partners Limited The Rockhound Shop Romeo's Place Limited OTHER CONTIBUTERS: Geoffrey Castle, Saanich Archivist TRANSCRIPTION: Lynda Price, whose fast fingers and patience gave us the material to work with. Kathleen Martin, Visiting Library Services Greater Victoria Public Library for donating the use of tape recorders. EDITING: Helen Parker DESIGN & LAYOUT Dennis & Struthers Visual Communications Inc. PHOTOS PROVIDED By: Sannich Pioneers Saanich Archives BC Archives Hampton Elementary School (Santosh Clark, Principal) Fairburn Elementary School (Joan Hollick, Principal) Colquitz J r. Secondary School Reynolds Secondary School Royal Oak Middle School Tillicum School
Cherishing the Past, Valuing the Present and Visioning the Future, this was Healthy Saanich Committee's theme for their first community mapping day held in late 1999. Over 100 residents, young and old, came to the mapping day to map what they valued about their community, Saanich. There were 54 maps created and Briony Penn, a local artist and biologist, pulled all the themes cogether to produce a wonderful work of art entitled "Healthy Saanich". These maps are available for sale through Saanich Community Centres. T he members of the Healthy Saanich Committee talked about ways to bring the energy together again to celebrate the millennium by capturing some of the rich memories many residents have of growing up in Saanich. Several people expressed interest in omehow bringing Saanich pioneers and students together and, as with all great ideas, .mother committee was born! Life In Saanich, Then and Now participants from Tillicum School It took a tremendous amount of volunteer work on the part of the Memories Book Committee throughout 2000 to pull this project together. Committee members developed the interview questions, pursued pioneers willing to tell their stories and set up the interviews at schools where the teachers and principals involved were as excited about the project as we were. We obtained a supply of tape recorders through the Greater Vicco ria Public Library, arranged rides for the pioneers and tracked down interesting phocos. Meeting each month, we discussed our progress and grew more excited as we saw the anecdotes of the pioneers and students come together with the photos in the book we have today. An interview at Fairburn Elementary What readers don't see here, but what we on the committee had the pleasure of experiencing during the interviews was how each room buzzed with energy from the moment the students and pioneers met, working together to set up the tape recorders and begin their interviews. Seniors and students strayed often from the questions as one story led to another-then led to another! Their conversations were spirited and accompanied by lots of laughter. As in every project of this size, pioneers and students shared far more material with us than we could possibly use. Unfortunately, some of the interviews could not be transcribed, and some participants will not see their memories reflected here. Also, some readers may find inaccuracies in the recollections, but please recognize that "Life in Saanich" was not meant to be an academic history of Saanich. Giving pioneers and students the chance to come together, hear each others' memories, dreams and all they have in common, was the original intent of the memories project- that we have a way to share those Saanich memories with others through this book is value added. Councillor Judy Brownoff, CHAIR H EALTHY SAANICH COMMITTEE 2000 I
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