Vantreight Cove

Vantreight Cove (48˚30'00" 123˚18'00" E end of Margaret Bay, just W of Gordon Head, SE side of Saanich Peninsula, N of Victoria), Vantreight Island (48˚26'00" 123˚15'00" One of the Chatham Is, E side of Baynes Channel, E of Oak Bay and Victoria). John Vantreight (1841–96), from Dublin, Ireland, settled in the Gordon Head area in 1884 and established a bulb-growing operation. His son, Geoffrey Arthur Vantreight (1881–1959), developed the business in the 1920s and ’30s, and was known as...

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