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Royal Oak Elementary School Cookbook 1965

There's Wrigglers in my Water
A sometimes irreverent look at 40 years of Victoria's Elk and Beaver Lake water supply system from a Saanich point of view. Plus some other related information that you may not know.

Royal Oak School Cookbook 1985
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5BHELvejJ64WG5IQlVDYm03VEk/view?usp=sharing

Royal Oak School 100th Anniversary.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5BHELvejJ64eXFuNHFjazN3d1k/view?usp=sharing

Haliburton School
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5BHELvejJ64RTNvaG9Yb1RlM3c/view?usp=sharing

Mrs. H. H. Reed's Notebook
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5BHELvejJ64T2ZBS01EdWJ0Yk0/edit

Royal Oak Women's Institute
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5BHELvejJ64TDZOVWNSS3ZudWM/view?usp=sharing

School Board Meetings 1878-1906
http://www.saanich.ca/EN/main/parks-recreation-culture/archives/collections-research.html#letter-s

Royal Oak Community Association
https://www.google.ca/#q=royal+oak+community+association+saanich


Newspaper clippings from the Old Royal Oak School Opening as Crumsby's
https://plus.google.com/photos/103513723830611560436/albums/5830632423219378449?authkey=CP7toNSVwurLaA

Royal Oak Recollections.
Notes on the early days and growth of Royal Oak.

The Canadian Letters and Images Project.
You have to visit this site to see what it is all about. It is worth the visit.

                 One entry from the site above.
                Kenneth W. Foster.  A memoir of World War I

       The Genn Family History
This is detailed research that documents events as far back as the 11th century. Compiled by David Genn and other Genn family members over a period of years. This could be a novel.
https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B-ylzRSppsZwdnVWSzZvR2pJVGM/edit

The History of Royal Oak School.
A fascinating look at Royal Oak Schools from 1865 to 1988.
Compiled and Written by D. M. Young
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B5BHELvejJ64c3BVekZzQkFqYWc


Life in Saanich Then and Now.
A Saanich Municipality Publication.
http://www.saanich.ca/living/mayor/boards/pdf/lifeinsaanich.pdf


Saanich Municipal Archives. 
http://www.saanich.ca/EN/main/parks-recreation-culture/archives.html

  Saanich Remembers World War 1
         Includes an Honour Roll of some of those from Saanich who served.
http://www.saanich.ca/EN/main/parks-recreation-culture/archives/saanich-remembers-wwi.html

       
 Foster, Philip James
http://www.saanich.ca/assets/Parks~Recreation~and~Culture/Documents/Foster_Philip.pdf


 Foster , Kenneth Walter
http://www.saanich.ca/assets/Parks~Recreation~and~Culture/Documents/Foster_KennethWalter_web.pdf

                       
Greater Victoria Public Library.    
http://gvpl.ca/

Saanich Pioneer Society-Log cabin museum
www.saanichpioneersociety.com
Operated by the Saanich Pioneer Society. We are a non-profit society, dedicated to the preservation of the historical records of the Saanich Peninsula. ... We have a simulated pioneer kitchen; a handicraft corner with women's beautiful ...

South Vancouver Island Women's Institutes--For Home and Country
www.svanciswomensinstitute.bc.ca/wihist.html The three Saanich peninsula Women's Institutes (North, West, and South Saanich) were ... These include pioneer schools, churches and community halls.

Pioneers of Saanich
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/sgc-cms/histoires_de_chez_nous-community_memories/pm_v2.php?id=thumbnail_gallery&fl=0&lg=English&ex=00000355&pos=1

News about the reopening of the old Royal Oak School House.V http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7gW-4Y-AsA

Mount View Colquitz Community Association
http://www.mountviewcolquitz.ca/




2 comments:

  1. Fabulous site! I know the alumni group is relatively newly formed, and already you have engaged local story-tellers and this blog site. Well done! I will be telling everyone I know about it. LJD

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  2. Thanks Frank. Your comments are very much appreciated.

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