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Tea & Meeting of early Saturna Island Women's Club
Tea & Meeting of early Saturna Island Women's Club at the Hunt Residence at the corner of Boot Cove Road & Payne Road.
Back row in the middle (shorter): Dorry Edmonson.
Lou Money is… ...more
Saturna School Class Picture
Mary Johnson, Peter Quinney, Ian Quinney, Vern Storey, Barbara Bellamy, Bud Bellamy, Donald Davison, Nan Campbell. ...more
Loading Firewood
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Stone House, Taylor Point
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Mayne Island Class Photo
photograph : bw ; 5.7 x 5.7 cm (original negative). ...more
Eddie Reid, Margaret Denham and Arthur Ralph(Jr)at Narvaez
Bay.
Image shows a woman and two children sitting around a car. Note in margin reads, "7 yrs." ...more
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Women's Service Club
The Saturna Women’s Service Club (SWSC) started out as the Saturna Women’s Institute and was incorporated on October 21, 1933. By the early '40s the club had become more service oriented and the name was changed to better reflect their mandate. The club provides support to the community of Saturna Island as a whole and to individuals when other organizations are unable.
There has always been a very large social aspect to the club. In the beginning, the ladies would meet each month at someone’s home in the evenings or at the community hall in the afternoon. They enjoyed tea and sweets together and discussed where their funds would be spent in the community. Activities undertaken in the early years included card parties, singing as a…
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