Vantreight, Geoffrey Arthur

VANTREIGHT, Geoffrey Arthur, bulb grower, cancer fundraiser (b 1 Jan 1924, Victoria; d 13 May 2000, Saanich). He was raised in VICTORIA. In 1940 he began working at G.A. Vantreight & Sons, his family's large bulb operation, and he became a business and community leader in the SAANICH area. The firm had been established by his grandfather, John Vantreight, an Irish immigrant who homesteaded at GORDON HEAD in 1884, and it was developed in the 1920s and 1930s by his father, who was also named...

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