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Farming, Newman Rd
17 March 2006
Saanichton, British Columbia, Canada

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Tilister Beach on Lochside Dr
17 March 2006
Sidney, British Columbia, Canada

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Saanich Voters, Land Owners
1859
Saanichton, British Columbia, Canada

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Duncan Lidgate
1870
Saanichton, British Columbia, Canada

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Duncan Lidgate was a carpenter he came on the Norman Morison in 1852. He had a farm on Mount Newton Valley 1814-1874.

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Mount Newton Valley Farms
17 March 2006
Saanichton, British Columbia, Canada
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This is the fertile Mount Newton Valley in Saanichton, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. It is situated on the Saanich Peninsula surrounded by the ocean on three sides.
Many hardy pioneer families came in 1852 and 1853, on a six month voyage at sea on the Hudson Bay Company sailing ship the "Norman Morison". These farmers, carpenters and blacksmiths worked on the local farms of the Hudson Bay Company for five years.

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Saanich 1859-1874 voters list, Land Owners
1874
Saanichton, British Columbia, Canada

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These farmers soon set about cutting down the forest pulling up the stumps and establishing their farms.

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Oxteam clearing land
1880
Saanichton, British Columbia, Canada

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Oxteam helping to clear land on Duncan Lidgate farm, Mount Newton Valley (SPS989.1.308)
These farmers worked long hours cutting cedars, pulling stumps. With the help of teams of oxen, they carved out their homes. Working and helping with each other depending on their neighbors in time of illness or death, and celebrating births and marriages.

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Shady Creek Cemetery cleared SPS989.1.746
1895
South Saanich, British Columbia, Canada

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Mr and Mrs Jack Henderson SPS1205
1874
Saanichton, British Columbia, Canada

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Brethour family farm Mount Pleasant Farm
1890
Sidney, British Columbia, Canada