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Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird... it’s a boat... A small boat and outboard motor hangs suspended from a crane above three workers conferring on the new Craigflower Bridge, currently under construction.
Preserving the past Kyle Slavin News staff
Capt. Robert Neill Walker’s former home sits in a Garry oak meadow overlooking Portage Inlet. The English mariner designed the home in 1910 above what is now the
Galloping Goose Regional Trail, with the Pacific Ocean and Olympic Mountains visible from the front lawn or the second-storey veranda. This 104-year-old home on a 4,255-squaremetre property was expected to come before council Monday night as part of a
Saanich considers heritage designation for a 104-year-old Burnside Road home as part of a subdivision application
subdivision application. Two more houses are proposed to be built on the property that abuts the View Royal border on Burnside Road West. In addition to subdivision, the property owners want the historic home to receive official heritage designation from Saanich.
It is already on Saanich’s Heritage Register. Saanich’s manager of community planning says designation comes with greater protection of the home’s past.
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