Christmas Point

Christmas Point (48˚31'00" 123˚33'00" W side of Finlayson Arm, Saanich Inlet, NW of Victoria). Anglican clergyman Frederick Granville Christmas (1854–1931) was born in Jersey, Channel Is, and married May Flora Elton (1857–1943) in 1880. They moved to Canada in 1887. Granville, who enjoyed being called Father Christmas and developed quite a reputation as a poultry breeder, was minister of St Stephen’s in Saanichton, 1890–1901, and long owned a waterfront cottage on Saanich Inlet. He...

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