Wallace Island

WALLACE ISLAND, 80 ha, one of the smaller of the GULF ISLANDS, lies off the northeast tip of SALTSPRING ISLAND. It was purchased by David Conover, a California businessman and photographer, and his wife Jeanne, who settled there and developed Wallace Island Resort. Their adventures are recounted in 2 memoirs, Once Upon an Island and One Man's Island. Conover claimed to have "discovered" Marilyn Monroe when he photographed her on a factory assembly line in 1945. After the Conovers sold their...

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