We are grateful to the many local residents who have shared with us their recollections of earlier times in Fanny Bay. Not surprisingly, few of our reporters have been able to give us the exact dates for all of the events they could recall. We have tried to list some of these landmark occurrences and find dates for them to act as a time line for the oral histories we are collecting. This is the skeleton we have come up with so far. Can you fill in some of the blanks or suggest additions?
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| Prehistoric Period | The geological formation of Vancouver Island in general and the region around Fanny Bay in particular |
| 85,000 yrs ago | Brittle star & other fossils |
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First Aboriginal settlement in Fanny Bay |
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Spanish exploration |
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Coal discovered along Beauforts |
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VL&M |
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Esquimalt Nanaimo Railway |
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Joseph McPhee - Original Land Preemption 15 Nov. |
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Alexander Urquhart - Original Land Preemption 29 Apr |
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Quadra village @ Buckley Bay for coal mining |
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Baynes Sound freezes over |
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Alexander Cowie - Original Land Preemption 07 Jul. |
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First coal from Union (Cumberland) shipped from new dock at Union Bay to Union Pacific RR at San Francisco |
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census |
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Farming begins in Fanny Bay |
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Boer War |
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Co-op Store in Fanny Bay |
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Union Bay Gaolhouse opened |
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First school opens at Fanny Bay |
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Hastings Farm started (Frank Hastings) |
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Second (replacement) FB school opens |
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World War I |
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Hastings store built on Hastings property |
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FB Post Office at Hastings Store |
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Gas pumps at Hastings Store |
| 1931-197? | Fisherman's Balls and notorious Fanny Bay dances. |
| 19??-19?? | The Stop & Shop, Andy Flawse, owner |
| 19??-19?? | Construction of Island Highway |
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Fanny Bay Shingle Mill opened |
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Fanny Bay was a major exporter of potatoes to the orient |
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Deep Bay Logging Company in Fanny Bay |
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Population boom-- second room added to Fanny Bay school |
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Mrs. Catherine Little donated the land for the Mission (used now for OAPO Hall) |
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Grant's Logging in operation in FB |
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St. Catherine's Anglican Mission built |
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Fanny Bay Inn the building? |
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Abe McLauglin donated 3 acres to build the community hall & a building committee is formed. |
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September, the hall officially opened. |
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The light plant was donated by the Kagetsu Logging Co. |
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Community Association first set of rules The Rules and By-Laws of the Fanny Bay Athletic and Social Society are dated November 2, 1931. |
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Fanny Bay Athletic and Social Society registered under the Provincial Societies Act |
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Victoria Lumber Company was started. The Victoria Lumber & Manufacturing Company went through many name changes including Tsable Logging, Glover Logging, Bevan Logging and the final name was Alaska Pine |
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Fanny Bay Inn opens May first |
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World War II declared |
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Japanese Evacuation |
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The government seized logging owned by the Japanese is acquired by H.R. MacMillan |
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Fletcher logging operations start in Fanny Bay |
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MacMillan Bloedel advertises "Tree Farm Number (19?)" and distributes Douglas fir seedlings to Fanny Bay School students |
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Beban Logging is operating back of Buckley Bay |
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The big (major) earthquake; Changes at Deep Bay and elsewhere |
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Buckley Bay Store first established |
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Dollar Logging |
| 19?? | Thompson and Clark Logging |
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Phones arrived in Fanny Bay |
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Mac's Oysters started; also Oyster Co-op began |
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There were 3 houses on Ships Point |
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White Swan Resort |
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Electricity arrived in Fanny Bay |
| 1950-53 | Korean War |
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A business at the location where Pepperland is now located was opened. |
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The second FB School burns down in February; Doug Geidt (principal) takes photograph |
| 1957/58 | Scandal at the F.B. Shingle Mill when $10,000 went missing. |
| 19?? | The loggers left |
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Fanny Bay Shingle Mill closed |
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Ships Point development |
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Nanaimo Realty placed fill along the dyke to create waterfront lots on Tozer. Before that, the tide used to come over the road in front of the old farm. -needs verification |
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Commercial trolling for spring salmon is no longer allowed year-round |
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Building that became Ships Point Beach House towed to FB |
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Building that became Ships Point Beach House became a residential facility |
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Centennial |
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BRICO, cable layer ship, was towed to FB and pushed & dragged along the tide to its present location on shore |
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St. Catherine's Mission leased to the OAPO for their use, only Anglican services are allowed |
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The third Fanny Bay School building is moved to Glacierview Elementary grounds in Comox |
| 1972 & thereafter | A July Sunday BBQ held that turns into the Fanny Bay Day |
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Tozer Road development on Ships Point(?) |
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Elk are brought to this area |
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Denman Island Freight established |
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Fanny Bay Oysters founded |
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October 24, the Fanny Bay Hall 50th Anniversary (The guest book is in the Archives.) The Christmas party continuous event for over 40 years. Halloween Party a yearly event These two events happened for 15 years: Fishermen's Farewell Spring Banquet and Dance Welcome Home, Fishermen Fall Banquet and Dance |
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The Store opens |
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Fanny Bay Oysters taken over by Haddens. |
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United Hatcheries, Rosewall Creek (now Omega) |
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George Sawchuk starts his sculpture garden |
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Island Sun Greenhouses opens |
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Snowcap (now Seacrest Developments) started |
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Fanny Bay Salmon Enhancement Society established |
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Fanny Bay citizens affect the design of the new Inner Island Highway |
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Government department fences off and attempts to remove George Sawchuk's sculpture garden; the community protests and it remains open to the public |
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Archaeological dig at Buckley Bay (maybe in preparation for the new highway? |
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Section of land near Buckley Bay fenced off to protect aboriginal midden |
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Ships Point Beach House; the Longhouse |
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Natural Glacier Waters Opens |
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Fanny Bay Athletic and Social Society becomes the Fanny Bay Community Association and is registered as a non-profit society |
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Buckley Bay Store rebuilt |
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The Store closes & becomes Salty's Marine Exchange |
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Unique community participation approach to creating new Electoral Area and Greenways Plans for Area ‘A' |
| 1998-99 | While the new highway is being built, it acts as a popular recreation greenway for local residents. Also, coming out to view the new Tsable River Bridge, which is the longest(?)/highest(?) bridge of its type in North America (?) becomes a popular "Sunday afternoon" recreation. |
| 1999 | Fanny Bay section of the Inland Island Highway opened |
| 1999 | Shooters are hired to clear the elk off the new highway. During the months of construction the elk became fond of resting on the warm asphalt. |
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Island Sun closes post office & retail store |
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St. Catherine's Mission decommissioned, OAPO hall now available for any use, including memorial services |
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Union Bay Gaolhouse Museum Opened |
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21 km of special 8' high elk crossing protection fence is placed along the west side of the Inland Island Highway from Waterloo Creek to the Trent River to bolster the other unique elk protection devices such as scent boxes & elk-only reflective squares which stop elk crossings by falsely giving the elk the impression that cars are coming toward them. The fencing has unique one-way escape route gates to allow elk and deer to leave the highway for the safety of the woods. |
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