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OAK BAYNEWS Friday, February 28, 2014
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Historian Kate Humble, who will be leading a walking tour of Oak Bay, outside Glen Lyon Norfolk School built by Francis Mawson Rattenbury in 1898.
Walk reveals scandalous past Take a peek into Oak Bay’s secret history with new tour Christopher Sun News staff
Oak Bay is known for being calm and genteel, but a checkered history of scandals, sensational deaths and the occult lurks behind the tweed curtain. Those stories will be the subject of three upcoming Discover the Past’s Discovery Walking Tour of Oak Bay, led by historian Kate Humble. Humble grew up in Oak Bay and returned recently after spending 10 years in England
younger woman. He would eventually and Toronto. meet a tragic end when his second wife “I want to focus on the history in took on an 18-year-old lover. (Oak Bay) because it’s amazing,” she “It was a huge scandal,” said. “There have been “There have Humble said. “He had to some incredibly interesting characters who used to been some incredibly leave Victoria.” Humble said Oak Bay live in Oak Bay.” interesting characters also has a connection to Francis Mawson the sinking of the Titanic Rattenbury, the architect who used to live in and that in the late 19th behind the legislature Oak Bay.” Century, spiritualism was building, the Empress and - Kate Humble widely embraced by all Vancouver Art Gallery, and meeting for seances is one character Humble was all the rage. cited. Rattenbury, who also served on “This was a huge thing in Victoria, Oak Bay council, used to live in what is absolutely enormous,” Humble said. now Glenlyon Norfolk school on Beach Avenue. He designed the home and lived there with his wife and children until the PlEASE SEE: late 1920s when he got involved with a Discover the past, Page A8
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he Oak Bay High school junior girls basketball team is heating up the floor at the provincial tournament this week after a coach’s error nearly left them on the sidelines. The girls received a precedent-setting reprieve after last-minute negotiations Monday afternoon. The team was earlier disqualified from competing due to clerical errors made by coach Richard Fast. Fast omitted the girls’ uniform numbers and height in the registration which he sent in two days after the Jan. 15 deadline. He also sent the registration and late fees 10 days after the deadline. B.C. School Sports basketball commissioner Brett Westcott said the Christopher Sun team is allowed to play only Reporting because the host venue made accommodations. “If the Langley Events Centre did not agree to go to 17 teams, they wouldn’t be playing,” Westcott said. “This was not my idea.” Westcott said BCSS executive director Christine Bradstock spoke to organizers at the Langley venue, who agreed to admit one more team into the tournament, as Nanaimo’s Dover Bay Dolphins were earlier selected to replace Oak Bay. An alternative punishment was agreed to, with Oak Bay High paying a $500 fine, which will go towards an athletic scholarship. The school also had to write a letter, admitting fault for the whole debacle. “We wanted something significant to ensure teams make the registration deadline,” Westcott said, adding in the past three schools were disqualified due to late registration. The current rules will be debated at the next AGM. School coaches will make the final decision to change or keep the current rules, not parents, said Westcott. The Junior Girls Basketball Provincial Championships run Feb. 26 to March 1. reporter@vicnews.com
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