My PARENTS' WORK - District of Saanich

"My father learned to drive pretty late in life.
We had what you call a Chevrolet 490 fourcylinder
job and side cars and a flap.
Sometimes we'd go as far as Sidney-we'd have
twO flat tires in a day."
ERIC 'STOFE' STOFER, 85
"Whenever we went on a day trip, it was in the
milk truck, and we all sat in the back of the
truck and hung our legs down the tailgate."
ISABEL 'TILLY' (RAPER) OSBORN, 75
"Most of our trips were around the area
until I was nine or 10. Then we'd travel
up-Island to Qualicum, which would
take about three hours and maybe
three or four flat tires. I remember
my first airplane flight in 1947 to
Seatde. It cost $8.50 rerum. From
Vancouver, it was $8-it's changed
a little since then."
BARRIE 'BOOGIE' GOODWIN, 64
"If we went into town, we took
the bus. The bus fare from the
city as far as where Ravine Way
is now was 6 cents, but if you went further,
like the corner of Tillicum and Carey, that was
10 cents. Money was so scarce, you'd get off
the bus at Ravine Way where Town & Country
is and walk the rest of the way just to save 4
cents. Sounds funny, but 4 cents was 4 cents."
LAURENCE 'LARRY' WEBB, 78
"Daddy always had a car and we'd go up-Island.
It used to take nine hours to get to Nanaimo
with about five flat tires on the way. The roads
were so narrow-they were JUSt cut through the
bushes-we had to drive very slow. As soon as
you'd see another car coming, one of you had to
stop to let the other one pass. It was a long trip,
but we used to love to go."
GRACE HAWKINS, 79
"We were luck}' because we had an old T4 and
we used to get taken on litde drives to Elk Lake
or Goldstream. Other than that, we rode our
bikes, walked or grabbed a streetcar or bus."
HELEN 'SALLY' WEBB, 76
CPR Terminal, downtown Victoria
"My dad was a farmer, so we really didn't do
long trips with him because he couldn't take
time off. When I was a very young girl, my
aunt and uncle took me on the midnight ferry
from Victoria Harbour to Vancouver. It used
to go at midnight and you slept on the ferry
and got off in the morning in Vancouver."
JOYCE M . (HOBBS) PETERSON, 68
Jitney run by the Stewarts on the Lakehill route (1919)
"We couldn't afford a car until about 1937,
but most of our transportation was to Victoria
on the jitney. That was a very small bus-type
vehicle owned by private people. They had a
run-ours was from Carey Rd. into Victoria.
Of course, the bicycle was the basic mode of
travel for young people. There were a few
horse-and-carriages, but not very many."
CYRIL E. 'TED' SHELLEY, 77
"I went to Vancouver several times to play
soccer and box. We went to Port Angeles a
couple of times. CPR had a ferry in those days.