French Beach

French Beach (48˚23'00" 123˚56'00" E of Point No Point, SW end of Vancouver I). British naturalist James George French (1865–1952) travelled the world to acquire exotic animals for zoos. He once brought home a small elephant. A brother of British WWI field marshal Sir John French, Earl of Ypres, he came to Canada in 1887, farmed at Swan Lk in Saanich and also pre-empted land at French Beach, eventually settling there with his animal menagerie. His wife, Jane Goudie (1884–1933), ran a...

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