Saturna’s Story

Post War Era

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1944
  • The Gaines Family moves to Saturna
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1945
  • The Money and Campbell
    Families move to Saturna
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1946
  • Saturna School opens with nine students on a new, temporary site right near Sunset Beach
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1950
  • The first Lamb BBQ is held on the Campbell’s property on what is now Thomson Park. It is started by Jim Cruikshank as a school
    picnic
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1951
  • Saturna Elementary School officially opens in the building we still have today
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1951
  • Barry Crooks and his family move to Saturna from
    Mayne Island
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1952
  • The Princess Mary is removed from the active service list
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1956
  • A population of 78 host 1300 people at the
  • Lamb BBQ
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1959
  • BC Lightweight Aggregate Shale Plant opens in Winter Cove
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1960
  • BC Ferries is founded
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1961
  • 26 students are enrolled in the school
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1962
  • St. Christopher’s Church is
    built
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1964
  • A large portion of Saturna gets electricity. A committee of islanders is formed to figure out how to set it up. East Point does not get power until 1968
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1965
  • The Mayne Queen is built
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1966
  • The CRD is created
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1968
  •  The Saturna Island Free School opens in the Payne
    .Homestead on Breezy Bay
    It operates until 1971
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1970
  • Saturna Island Fire Hall No. 1 opens
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1974
  • The Islands Trust is created
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1976
  • The first Official Community Plan is developed by Walter Bavis, Bob Hindmarch, Jimmy Campbell Jr., Bill Sheffeld, John Money, Barry Crooks and John Gaines
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1979
  • Flo House becomes the postmaster, the first in the General Store. She retires in
    2018
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1980