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Travis Paterson One-hundred-foot high dive towers, rival swim clubs and world champion swimmers along the Gorge are gone but not forgotten, thanks to local historian Dennis Minaker. The Saanich author can spin an oral history of the Gorge Waterway that will make your head spin. His annual walking tour of the Gorge is free and happens this Saturday (May 23), starting at the Gorge Canoe and Kayak Club. “Before cars took over, water was
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Gorge three-mile swimmer Audrey Griffin, second from left, along the Gorge waterway in 1916. Behind is the Gorge Free Bathing House along the Saanich shore of present-day Saanich Gorge Park. The Gorge was populated with many private club swim and boathouses, making the “Free house” a popular spot. In the boat with Griffin is her parents and a friend.
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the way. And in Greater Victoria, the Gorge Waterway was an epicentre for summer activity,” Minaker says. Fishing, swimming, sailing and rowing were daily occurrences on the pristine waters of Canada’s prewar Gorge, and it stayed that way until the 1930s when its recreational draw began to decline. Few know the stories of the Gorge like Minaker. A retired registered nurse, Minaker spent six years during the 1990s gathering about 200 first-person stories of the Gorge during its glorious heyday – from the 1890s to the 1930s.
“I got interested at just the right time, it was serendipitous,” Minaker says. “Had I waited five more years, they would have been gone. Gorge’s story would have been so much drier and thinner.” Minaker couldn’t believe no one had documented the Gorge as its own entity, so he took on the project himself. It led to his 1998 book, The Gorge of Summers Gone, A History of Victoria’s Waterway. PLEASE SEE: Heroes of old frequented Gorge, Page A5
Former Saanich mayor Frank Leonard is taking over as chair and interim CEO of the Agricultural Land Commission, agricultural minister Norm Letnick announced last Thursday. Leonard will hold combined duties as the board chair and CEO for a period of five months while he leads the search for a new CEO. He will take the helm at the ALC under new regulations taking effect to manage the Agricultural Land Reserve with two zones. “It’s a challenge I’m excited about, an incredible honour. ALR is something I care about,” said Leonard, who was in orientation with ALC staff in Burnaby last week. “This is unique as I have a steep learning curve and I am essentially replacing myself.” Outgoing board chair and CEO Richard Bullock will receive a severance consistent with the rest of his contract, a five-year term that was meant to wrap up in November. The B.C. government has been at odds with Bullock since early in his five-year term, when he stopped appointing commissioners to six regional panels around the province. Energy Minister Bill Bennett, who pushed through the two-zone system under the auspices of his core review of government services, said a year ago that Bullock found the regional panels to be “a pain in the ass” and preferred to run the commission from its head office in Burnaby. So the government mandated regional appointments in legislation along with the two-zone concept. Leonard takes over as the ALC deals with a vast Interior “zone two” with relaxed rules for second residences and non-farm activities. Commissioners are also expected to deal with applications by a British manufacturing giant buying B.C. Interior farms to turn back to forest for European Union carbon credits. NDP agricultural critic and Saanich South MLA Lana Popham discredited Bullock’s early dismissal and Leonard’s appointment, saying it weakens farmland protection. “By replacing B.C.’s agricultural watchdog with someone with no background in agriculture, the B.C. Liberals are making it clear that their attack on the ALR has only just begun,” Popham said. PLEASE SEE: Land use work is valid experience: Leonard, Page A4
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