Merville

MERVILLE, pop 2,069, is an AGRICULTURAL community on the east side of VANCOUVER ISLAND, 14 km north of COURTENAY. It was established in 1919 as a settlement of returned veterans and named for a town in France where Canadian soldiers had been headquartered. In 1922 it was hit by a fire that destroyed many of the farms, and it never prospered. The childhood home of the novelist Jack HODGINS, who placed it at the centre of his 1998 novel Broken Ground, it remains a rural hamlet.

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