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TWEED WINTER 2015

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inside Winter 2015

Volume 3 | Issue 4

24 Cover Story

Meet Maggie Gong who has made a French connection in Oak Bay.

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DEPARTMENTS

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Historic Oak Bay

Writer Ivan Watson takes readers to the Oak Bay Hotel with Rudyard Kipling.

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Oak Bay Insider

Find a gem in our midst with Christopher Causton.

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Postcards Home Travel

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TELL

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Tweed Magazine welcomes your Oak Bay suggestions for the next edition.

So, do tell!

Email editor Susan Lundy at: lundys@shaw.ca

around the world with Joseph Blake.

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Tea with

Tweed editor Susan Lundy chats with Oak Bay High School’s Dave Thomson.

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Dogs on the Avenue

Photographer Don Denton captures the cute, the cuddly and the gangly in Oak Bay canines.

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TALK of the TOWN !

• Oak Bay author Maggie Bolitho’s most recent book, Outback Promise, was recently released by HarperCollins Australia. Bolitho, who grew up in Victoria but lived several years in Australia, has published adult short stories in various anthologies in Australia, the U.S. and Canada, and her young adult novel, Lockdown, was published last year. Outback Promise touches on issues of trust, forgiveness, grief and bitternesss — all to the backdrop of the wilderness of Australia’s outback.

Early Music Society OF THE ISLANDS

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• Local jazz legend Joe Coughlin will celebrate Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday at the new Oak Bay High School Community Theatre on December 12. Described as the “best jazz singer Canada has ever produced,” Coughlin will mark the birthday of one of his musical idols by bringing the 18-piece Vancouver Island All-Star Big Band to the new, 440seat community theatre for a once in a lifetime musical celebration. “Out of all the tribute shows, this one will be unique. It won’t impersonate Mr. Sinatra,” Coughlin explains. “It’s designed to illuminate the incredible contribution he’s made over a 60-year period. He had a great influence on my singing

style, but I’d be arrogant to say that I sound like him.”

The Frank Sinatra 100th Birthday Celebration will use Sinatra’s original big band arrangements to bring his songbook to life. The concert is also a benefit for the Rotary Club of Oak Bay Foundation’s Sno’uyutth Legacy Fund. Tickets are $45 and available in advance at The Oak Bay Recreation Centre and Scotia Bank.

• Both the “upstairs” and “downstairs” teams at the Oak Bay Beach Hotel are preparing for the final premiere of the immensely popular TV series Downton Abbey — to be held on Sunday, January 3, 2016 in the David Foster Foundation Theatre. Tickets are $99 per person, plus taxes, with only 120 spaces available for the event. The evening begins at 6 p.m. and includes a cocktail reception, three-course themed meal prepared by Executive Chef Kreg Graham, and a one-hour simulcast of the premiere of the final season of Downton Abbey.

Guests are encouraged to dress in 1930s era outfits to match the theme, décor and staff uniforms. A professional photographer will be taking complimentary guest photos in front of a Downton Abbey backdrop.

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EDITOR'S LETTER

The Great Christmas Wig Caper — and creating seasonal memories

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few days before Christmas one year, I rushed gift-giving ideas from our many up and down the aisles of a grocery store and advertisers, beautifully displayed in a joyous consumer frenzy, plucked once-athroughout the following pages year specialty items from the shelves, reciting and in our special gift guide the mantra “’tis the season!” (page 21).

My buggy grew more and more full, and as I And there’s more! Stories passed the poultry section, I tossed a turkey onto the in this edition feature an Oak pile. And then I stopped. I’d never, ever cooked a Bay man and his unique handturkey (the feel of an uncooked bird makes crafted gift idea me queasy) and both my daughters are (Shinekits, page vegetarians. Why on earth would I buy a 14). We also turkey? Sheepishly, I put it back. meet Maggie In the midst of all the seasonal buying Gong, a Chinese I try to remember chaos, I try to remember that it’s often woman runthe little things — the eggnog and not the ning a French that it’s often the turkey-that-I-can’t-cook — that are most restaurant (New little things — the momentous at this time of year. kid on the block, page 24); read some For example, my daughters have crethoughtful comments by Oak Bay High eggnog and not the ated their own unique gift-giving tradition.

School principal Dave Thompson (Tea turkey-that-I-can’tThey, who both have magnificent, long With, page 32); step through the rooms cook — that are most manes of golden curly hair, present each of a splendidly renovated, century-old other with … wigs. Over the years, the wigs home (Visualizing Space, page 10); and momentous at this have ranged from blond to pink to black; travel the world with Joe Blake, who for time of year. and curly to straight to tangled tresses. Last 20 years has participated in a house exyear, my younger daughter — who was time change travel program. crunched amidst an overwhelming school Columnist Chris Causton takes us program — didn’t manage to purchase a to Uplands Park; Ivan Watson takes us wig gift for her sister. So she crept down through some poetic Oak bay history; to the tree on Christmas Eve while the rest photographer Don Denton presents a of us slept, found the package containing the wig visually stunning selection of contrasting gates, and of her sister had bought and placed her own tag on it. course, the stars of the magazine (dogs on the avenue) Christmas dawned and my elder daughter ended up can be spotted on pages 34 and 35. opening — amid much chortling — the wig gift she All of us here at Tweed hope you enjoy this edition. herself had placed under the tree.

And we wish you all the joy of the season — whether As Shelagh Guild’s story in this edition of Tweed that be indulging in once-a-year items, finding perfect (Bits, bobs and books, page 18) exemplifies — it’s gifts, feasting, switching the tags on presents or creating the creation of memories at this time of year that enduring memories. can be the most enduring. And my family will always remember the Great Christmas Wig Caper.

These magical memories didn’t have much to do with consumerism at all, but, back to my grocery EDITOR store revelry… the joy of purchasing specialty food items and the fun of gift-giving is all part of the seaBorn and raised in Victoria, Susan Lundy has worked as a journalist, editor and freelance writer for over 25 son, creating its own sense of elation. To be truthful years. Her stories have appeared in many newspapers — as long as the money is there —shopping at this and magazines. Her first book — Heritage Apples: A time of year can be a lot of fun. And if it’s shopping New Sensation — was published in 2013. thrills you’re after, this edition of Tweed offers lots of

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Now until December 23 DAVID BLACKWOOD: A MAJOR EXHIBITION AT WINCHESTER GALLERIES. Oil paintings, watercolours and etchings — this marks the first exhibition of works by David Blackwood in several years.

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VisualizingSpace Creating a sleek, contemporary look to a grand-dame classic

By Carolyn Heiman Photos by Gary McKinstry

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emember those psychology inkblot tests where one person sees a rabbit but the next person sees only a blob?

Great designers and builders are like the former. They see potential where others see nothing.

Where one person sees an impossibly steep lot, a masterful designer imagines a home stepping up to the sky with open vistas. A great designer looks past walls and doorways, and envisions grand spaces. Others just see obstacles.

This capacity to see promise is very apparent in the renovation of a 1913 classic house on Windsor Avenue in Oak Bay. This home was one my husband and I left to downsize into a smaller, more contemporary house. After living here more than two decades, we grew tired of caretaking the century-old place.

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Visions from old to new

During the period that we lived in the house, we made some improvements we believed were sympathetic with its heritage. Notably, we brought in Edy Bradley of Banfp Design Group, and she guided the selection of exterior colours and alterations to the front façade, in keeping with the house’s legacy.

We often fantasized about renovating the interior, but the ideas we had did not involve reconfiguring space. Mostly, we adjusted to its shortcomings and idiosyncrasies. These included the inconvenience of the most used entrance — through the back door — that landed immediately in the kitchen with no place to put boots or coats.

Fortunately for this grand-dame home, it is now in the care of new owners — the sixth since it was built — and they are people

At left, the spacious and cosy living room and outside pond; here, the kitchen in its new location.

who like to visualize different things.

Today the home is vastly improved from when we lived there and, most important, it now belongs to this century, both in design and structure. Gone is the awkward back entry. There is now cover from the rain on the back landing and inside, a place for coats and shoes.

The kitchen is brighter, more spacious and more private. A previously marooned, useless landing space at the foot of the staircase is now open and useable. And the main floor guest room and bathroom has emerged as a comfortable enclave, providing space for both guests and owners.

All of this was achievable because the new owners agreed to flip the guest bedroom and kitchen at the back of the house, something I would have never visualized for its space-changing potential. This was not an insignificant decision; it had a domino effect on a wide range of elements in the house, including electrical, plumbing and windows. But ultimately, it profoundly changed the flow and functionality of the space.

Piecing the renovation puzzle

Coaching the owners through the renovation was designer Laurel Hodgins, who for 20 years worked alongside architect Pamela

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Charlesworth, a name associated with some of the finest Victoria homes. Charlesworth died in 2008, but not before she passed along some of her design styles and approaches to Hodgins.

“I give a lot of credit to the time I spent working with Pam,” she says.

One of Charlesworth’s philosophies was to avoid being typecast for doing any one particular design style. So she was comfortable designing both traditional and contemporary spaces. Her designs were “familiar enough to be understood but different enough to be interesting.”

Charlesworth was a great listener, Hodgins adds: a characteristic that’s critical to coming up with a design for an owner.

“I like renovations. So much depends on what the client needs. [Renovations] are a bit like doing a puzzle. You start with an existing layout and then you try to adapt it to how [the client] lives nowadays — as opposed to 40 or 50 years ago, when a home might have been built.”

Hodgins says this home had “a great character and charm of its own,” but the kitchen wasn’t working as the owners desired, and they wanted more storage and space for recycling. The connection of the kitchen to the rest of the main floor also troubled them. The guest room seemed underused, “and I thought, ‘let’s see what would happen if we moved the kitchen over.’ It took a bit of courage for [the owners] to give us the go ahead [as] the proposal now involved opening up walls and moving things here and there. But they were thrilled when it was done.”

At right: dining room, exterior and bathroom — the renovation to this 1913 home has entirely changed its space, making it more functional and ... gorgeous.

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Like many renovations, one change necessitates others — including some Renovations are that weren’t anticipated at the time. a bit like doing a The owners wanted the dropped ceiling in the former kitchen returned to puzzle. You start its original grand height. An earlier with an existing renovation, however, hid a maze of plumbing, and once it was removed, layout and then you it made sense to renovate the upstairs try to adapt it to bathroom at the same time. how the client lives Those involved in the construction are glad not to relive the day they had nowadays. to move a tremendously heavy, cast LAUREL HODGINS iron claw foot tub from upstairs. But no one regrets the modernized bathroom that resulted.

The reconfiguration of walls necessitated addition of new structural beams, making the house more earthquake resistant and enabling other changes inside. Garth Korberg, who runs a construction business focusing on renovation work and small additions, says making the structural improvements to the house was the trickiest part of the job.

He added beams in the basement, bringing necessary stability to the structure, which was built when building codes were minimal. With the new beams properly bracing the structure, it’s now ready to stand many more decades.

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Shinekits Thinking inside the box

By Korina Miller Photos by Don Denton

son would build the brand and Gagan would build the site.

“We knew we couldn’t make it work with a store, but with 50 thousand people a month searching for shoe shine kits, we If you’re looking to buy local this Christmas and stumped on thought maybe we could make it work online.” what to get the guy who has everything, help may They initially took the route of searching for a be just a few blocks away. That’s where you’ll find cheap product in China, importing it and brandOak Bay resident Jamie Neilson and his covetable ing it. shoe shine kits.

We started to think “It was difficult to get excited about,” admits “We’re creating memories,” says Neilson, coabout making Neilson.

“We couldn’t find anything we liked. founder of shinekits.com.

We found boxes for a couple of dollars and then It might not sound like a lucrative business plan, products with local read reviews about how they cracked or warped. but in 2014 the company went from idea and crafts people from The other end was luxury — rosewood and launch to $2,000 in sales within 10 weeks. our island. ebony boxes for thousands of dollars. You’d have Neilson and his partner, Jamie Gagan, have to be a hedge fund trader to buy it,” he recalls. been friends since nursery school in Burlington, JAMIE NEILSON “Then we thought, ‘we live here.’ We’ve Ontario. Neilson married an Oak Bay girl and has got all this wood — Douglas fir, red cedar. We been here ever since, while Langford-based Gagan started to think about making products with is an IT specialist. local crafts people from our island.

We wanted carpentry that was “He knows a lot about websites and analyzing online traffic. He nicely finished.” saw that men’s care products are underrepresented and that tens of The boxes are each hand built and sanded and waxed until thousands of people were searching for shoe shine kits, but that there they’re smooth to the touch. They’re durable, shippable and have was really nothing available that had kept pace or had a contemporary a warm glow that makes you want to pick them up, slide open feel. The websites all looked like they were made in 1997.” the lid and peer inside.

The two of them decided it was an interesting challenge. Neil-

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Shinekits business partners Jamie Neilson, left, and Jamie Gagan.

“They even have a secret compartment,” laughs Neilson. “It’s great to be making something here. To know that you can make a quality product in your own country, pay a fair wage and feel good about it.”

The boxes are filled with high-end brushes from Brazil, made from horsehair that sells for $17 per pound.

“It makes a really nice shine,” explains Neilson.

There’s also Angelus Wax from California — “it’s a 107-yearold beeswax and carnauba wax based recipe. The smell is unique but not awful. Stinky polish is no fun to work with.”

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“We have to hire another carpenter and set up shop in my garage in the run up to Christmas,” Neilson says. “It keeps growing. It’s gradually turning into a full time job.”

Their product continues to evolve.

“The boxes get more finesse. We had a couple hundred feet of mahogany from the smoking lounge of the Princess Mary that we used to add accents to some of the boxes,” says Neilson.

There are also plans to have a local Native artist silkscreen his or her artwork on the lids of a cedar box they recently added to their inventory.

Neilson and Gagan also have 500 pounds of Cowichan Valley Beeswax and have starting testing out their own wax production, mixing it with orange oil.

“We’re not launching it yet,” explains Neilson. We’re just dipping our toes in the water.”

He adds: “We want the boxes to be unique. We want them to be heirloom pieces — something you’d pass down through generations and that becomes part of a family’s story. Everybody has a shoe shine story —whether it’s the beat up metal box that your grandfather kept his kit in or the values instilled in you as a kid to take care of your stuff.

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Bits, bobs and books Sketches of Christmases past Submitted by Shelagh (Murray-Dixon) Guild Artwork by Robert Amos

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t is Christmas morning. The opening of our stockings completed and a bit of breakfast nibbled, my brother and I await the bus that will bring our Granddad to our home for the opening of the presents under the tree.

We sit impatiently by the kitchen window, which looks out over a neighbour’s garden towards Windsor Avenue, where the bus will eventually drop Granddad at a bus stop located a block away on the corner of Windsor and St. Patrick. We soon spot the bus when it passes our vision in the distance, but cannot see the bus stop itself, so the burning questions is “was he on it?” Or did he miss the appropriate coach at his end? If he has, that means we will have to wait impatiently for the next bus, as my brother and I are not permitted out of respect for our elders to open gifts until he arrived.

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virtue,” though it meant nothing to us at that moment — just the opposite.

Yet, finally there he is. Finally, we can spot him trudging along Windsor Avenue with a determined expression beneath his fedora. We can get under the tree at last.

However, his hat and coat need to be carefully hung up and a hot cup of tea placed in his chilly hands — these two considerations seemingly take an endless amount of time. We both adore him so we always forgive him — it wouldn’t be the same without him, we know that. He leaves no doubt as to how much he enjoys watching our expressions as we open our gifts each year.

For me, there are books — an armload of books — wrapped beneath the tinsel laden tree. I am in heaven with all of them heaped around me, and I’m longing to escape with them up to my bedroom — all bundled up and falling out from my enfolding arms as I take to the stairs to shut myself away with the excitement of choosing which will be the first to tuck into? Such a difficult decision because they all look so enticing.

There were other bits and bobs of gifts, of course, and all thoroughly enjoyed, I’m sure. But it was the books I remember — as well as the treat of a juicy tangerine in the toe of my stocking earlier.

The entirety of Christmas Day, I can only bring back in snatches. I’m called down It was a good time from my room occasionally to politely greet visiting family and friends, or to listen to to practise the the King’s annual Christmas speech around adage “patience is the mantel radio. And I enjoy the wonderful fragrance of roasting turkey wafting up the a virtue,” though it staircase and beneath my door as I read the meant nothing to chosen story. us at that moment Then, when I’m finally ordered to come down and be part of the family, I watch my — just the opposite. father perched on a stool stirring the gravy —SHELAGH GUILD now bubbling in the drippings of the roasting pan, with the added vegetable juices from their cooking water, whilst the bird stands magnificently browned atop the table in the process of settling itself down for my father’s expert carving.

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John and Joe Virtue with friends in the lobby of the Oak Bay Hotel, surveying preparations for the upcoming visit of Rudyard Kipling during his 1907 cross-Canada tour. (Source: Oak Bay Archives)

“A quiet English town of beautiful streets” Rudyard Kipling’s visit to Oak Bay

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If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs” are the famous opening words to Rudyard’s Kipling’s “If” — one of the best loved poems in the English language.

Less well known are Kipling’s many evocative descriptions of Canada, penned during his three visits to this country. In 1907— glowing with the recent success of his Nobel Prize in Literature — Kipling and his wife Caroline embarked on his only official Dominion tour where he was invited to deliver a series of speeches to the Canadian Clubs in several cities. Between September 30 and October 22, Kipling travelled from Montreal to Victoria and back again, on a private rail car accompanied by a personal porter.

At every stop, he was feted as the great Bard of Empire, and was cheered by large and adoring crowds of patriotic Canadians.

The Kiplings arrived in Victoria on October 8 and were chauffeured to lodgings in Oak Bay. Kipling had visited Vancouver Island twice before — in 1889 and 1892 — and had developed a fondness for the area, which he described as a “quiet English town of beautiful streets” with “quite a colony of old men doing nothing but talking, fishing and loafing at the club” and a place where the “retired go.”

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at 1420 Beach Drive, then the grandest hotel in the city, as the Empress was still under construction.

Designed by Francis Rattenbury as a replacement for the Mount Baker Hotel, which was destroyed by fire in 1902, the Oak Bay Hotel was built in just 45 days and opened in 1905.

Scarcely two years old at the time of Kipling’s visit, its staircase had already developed a noticeable squeak, which some say added to its old world charm.

The visit of such an esteemed guest sent the hotel staff into a frenzy of preparations. Seeking to spruce things up, the hotel’s proprietor, John Virtue — an affable and popular man about town — relied heavily on his society friends, who lent their silverware, exotic plants and Persian carpets in order that the hotel’s dining room and lobby lounge would be suitably dressed for the special visit.

The Times newspaper sent a reporter to interview Kipling and he described the scene of their meeting on the hotel’s verandah overlooking the beaches of Oak Bay: “A smiling blue sky was reflected in radiance on the water,” wrote the unnamed journalist, “beyond which the snow-wrapt heights of Mount Baker shone glistening in the sun.” Kipling was described as a “short, dark man whose face bespoke a virile and active nature,” and who was clearly enjoying “basking in the sunshine” of Oak Bay’s warm autumn weather.

Victoria, pledging that upon his return to England he would promote “the scenic and other advantages of Victoria.”

Kipling’s one-time drinking companion John Virtue remained at the helm of the Oak Bay Hotel until his death in 1929 at the age of 67. In 1938, the hotel was purchased by Jane Ewing and subsequently renamed the Old Charming Inn. It was known for hosting popular Christmas and New Year’s Eve parties. In 1962, the hotel and all its furnishings were purchased for $135,000 and the building was demolished to make way for the aptly named Rudyard Kipling apartments.

The owners kept the desk upon which Kipling wrote the evocative description of his night out on the town.

Charmingly, the Times reporter recorded Kipling exclaiming, “What a beautiful country,” at the very moment a salmon reputably leapt forth from the waters in front of him. Kipling spoke of “immense possibilities for the future in the growing cities and communities of this province” and remarked on the “wonderful progress” since his previous visit 15 years earlier.

The main event of Kipling’s visit was his address to the Canadian Club, where the capacity crowd was described as Victoria’s “greatest assemblage of business and professional men that ever met at one time.” Kipling spoke about Canada’s bright future, immigration challenges and key role in the British Empire. The crowd rose for a standing ovation and sang “Rule Britannia.”

Across town, Mrs. Kipling was guest of honour at Tidaldeane, the estate of Captain James Troup, head of CPR’s BC Coastal Service, overlooking Victoria’s scenic harbour panorama. Mrs. Troup invited several high society ladies for the occasion. The newspapers described Mrs. Kipling as: “delightful ... with a charming personality.”

At the Oak Bay Hotel, Kipling and Virtue got on famously. In the evening, Virtue invited his guest on a motor tour of the city, including taking in local watering holes and the novelty sights of Chinatown. Returning in an inebriated state, Kipling immortalized his night out in a poem which he penned at the desk in the lobby and presented to Virtue, who framed the original. (See full poem at right.)

Kipling received visitors at the hotel, including renowned architect Samuel Maclure. Maclure’s daughter Catherine recalled them enjoying “a glorious afternoon talking about everything.”

A year later, Kipling published “Letters to the family: notes on a recent trip to Canada,” which included his famous description of our city: “To realize Victoria, you must take all that the eye admires most in Bournemouth, Torquay, the Isle of Wight, the Happy Valley at Hong-Kong, the Doon, Sorrento, and Camps Bay; add reminiscences of the Thousand Islands, and arrange the whole round the Bay of Naples, with some Himalayas for the background,” Kipling enthused.

Catherine Maclure remembers her father’s enchantment with these words and their potential to attract tourists.

“I made hundreds of copies — typed them for him,“ she said.

“He was giving them to everybody. It was such a beautiful description of Victoria.”

Kipling departed Victoria on October 10 on the S.S. Princess

Do you have any special memories of the Oak Bay Hotel/Old Charming Inn? Do you remember hearing stories about Kipling’s visit? Contact Ivan Watson: watsoni@yahoo.com or 250-418-0700.

Above: the Oak Bay Hotel was opened in 1905 and demolished in 1962 to make way for the Rudyard Kipling apartments. At right: Rudyard Kipling, circa 1900.

Kipling’s poem written at the Oak Bay Hotel after a night out on the town:

A gilded mirror, and a polished bar, Myriads of glasses strewn ajar, A kind of faced man all dressed in white, That’s my recollection of last night.

The streets were narrow and far too long, Sidewalks slippery, policemen strong, The slamming door, the sea-going back, That’s my recollection of getting back.

A rickety staircase and hard to climb, But I rested often, I’d lots of time, An awkward keyhole and a misplaced chair, Informed my wife that I was there.

A heated interior and a revolving bed, A sea-sick man with an awful head, Cocktails, Scotch and booze galore, Were all introduced to the cuspidor.

And in the morning came that jug of ice; Which is necessary to men of vice, And when it stilled my aching brain, Did I swear off?—I got drunk again.

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New kid on the block Maggie Gong makes the French connection

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ith the low hum of conversation and a gentle clinking of cutlery, the dining room at Confit gradually fills up over a weekday lunch hour. Friends, longtime married couples and young families all naturally sink into a slower rhythm at their tables, pausing between bites to savour each forkful.

The restaurant, a little piece of France on Oak Bay Avenue, has undergone a rather drastic transformation under new owner Maggie Gong from its previous incarnation as Chez Michel.

Bringing in warm and neutral colours, clean lines and rich woodwork, Confit is a blend of modern design, elegance and organic textures, with a menu that is well thought out.

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Confit owner Maggie Gong; at right, Chef Dwane MacIsaac.

Restaurants are notoriously difficult businesses to run successfully, but purchasing Chez Michel seemed a perfect fit for Gong, who moved from China to Richmond in 2014 with her family, before she fell in love with Oak Bay this summer.

Gong says she and her husband hadn’t wanted to start a brandnew restaurant — with all the extra challenges it would bring — when they first moved to their new community. Being able to step into an existing situation and then rebranding gave them the opportunity to gain a foothold in Oak Bay, both on professional and personal levels.

Having run a 50-seat restaurant in Beijing, Gong and her husband already had a good sense of what it takes to run a successful eatery. Gong herself was particularly excited to jump at the chance to run a French restaurant, having fallen in love with French cuisine during her many sojourns into France while completing her Masters in marketing at the University of Edinburgh.

And though her passion for French food is evident, Gong says, she has encountered a few people who have been surprised that she and her husband didn’t opt to open a Chinese food restaurant.

“But Canadian people can run Chinese restaurants, so why can’t a Chinese person run a French restaurant?” she muses. “I’m just a human being. I do my best, and I hired a local chef with lots of expertise.”

“I think Chinese and French food have similar concepts,” she adds, explaining that both cultures use a wide variety of ingredients, from frog’s legs to snails to sweetbreads (or organ But Canadian meats). Nearly all parts of the animal are put to good use, adding people can flavours and textures that, while run Chinese occasionally unfamiliar to a North American diet, offer an exquisite restaurants, so why dining experience. can’t a Chinese Confit is no exception, offering bacon-wrapped escargot, sizzling person run a French sweetbreads and duck fat fried restaurant?. frites on the menu, but Chef Dwane MacIsaac also brings plenMAGGIE GONG ty of tamer dishes to the table.

The selection of thinly sliced charcuterie from Oak Bay butchers at The Whole Beast, or the rack of lamb with house-made dijon, duck fat roasted fingerling potatoes and local vegetables are enough to make any mouth water. Follow it with a vanilla bean crème brulee and a digestif, and it’s a recipe for decadence.

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After 17 years working as a chef in the film industry, MacIsaac “He’s Mr. Mom right now,” she says with a laugh. “We just jumped at the chance to join the team at Confit, with grand ideas want to have a simple life. The most important thing is to take care for a complete redesign. of them and spend time with them. Family is the most important “It was more of a special occasion restaurant,” he says of the thing.” former business, Chez Michel. “I wanted to build a community restaurant.”

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A gem in our midst Peaceful Uplands Park

B Christopher Causton was Mayor of Oak Bay for 15 years. He is now the Goodwill Ambassador and a Captain with Victoria Harbour Ferries. He is the former owner of Rattenbury’s Restaurant where his landlord was the Provincial Capital Commission.

James Saull, using his wife as the model figure, completed etween Thanksgiving and Christmas, there is a the task by November 11, 1948. Now, I would argue, on holiday and a ceremony that reminds us all of how, in this far off corner of the world, we are still almost any day — but especially Remembrance Day — it is one of the most peaceful, spiritual spots in the municipality. able to celebrate all those other festivals in any way we Many other peaceful activities are taking place in the like. The day is November 11 and the ceremony is at the park and all of them, each in their own way, contribute to a Oak Bay Memorial Cenotaph in peaceful Uplands Park. sense of wellbeing and connectedness. Sitting on a bench in The original interest in The Uplands came from the the park, with Jeremy Jones Island in the distance, you can Hudson Bay Company (HBC), which saw the open spot all kinds of marine life, tidal currents and wild birds. space, including Uplands Golf Course, as good grazing And with a renewed interest in the Salish Sea, the ground for cattle.

So they built a cattle-landing station at Loon Bay and outdoors and migratory bird routes, volunteers are keen to engage the public. In the works is a new proceeded to ship cattle over from the information kiosk that will join the others in Mainland. The animals were driven helping explain this unique piece of Oak Bay. overboard at Cattle Point and they “Others” include an educational sign either swam or waded ashore.Residents Many other peaceful about First Nations’ history that was installed have often been surprised to learn that activities are taking in 2005 thanks to generous donor support. the first business in Oak Bay was an place in the park and all It’s interesting to note that the natural Garry abattoir. (I often used this little known of them, each in their oak meadows were actually the result of land fact to make a point about change!) own way, contribute to a management practises by aboriginals that William Hicks Gardner optioned 465 included burning and hunting. acres from the HBC in 1907, which, sense of wellbeing and And if William Grant had just stuck to in turn, he optioned to the Franco Caconnectedness. his favourite drink and not introduced nadian Trust. War and The Depression broom in the 1850s, all that pulling might meant that development was difficult, have been avoided. Dedicated teams of Girl and it ended up that in 1946 both GardGuides, Boy Scouts and volunteers working with very ner’s company, which had to take back much of the land, and Franco Canadian Trust were behind in their property capable leaders have toiled mightily to remove that Scottish pest as well as English ivy, European ash and Daphne laurel. taxes.

The fact that the park has never been developed has In a referendum to buy the 76 acres of park for also led it to recently acquire the status of only the sec$65,000, Oak Bay residents voted overwhelmingly in ond Urban Star park in Canada. It has always been the favour. It should be pointed out that historically in Oak place to “hang” in Oak Bay and watch submarine races.

Bay referendums, residents vote “no” the first time Now it’s official. On a clear night, the dark skies are around. Furthermore, this vote was taken only shortly after the end of the war. However, Reeve Walker and his captivating.

We are all very fortunate to have this gem in our midst. I council not only strongly supported the referendum, but they proposed building a Memorial Cenotaph on a rocky think it is best described as a “a peaceful island of nature in an urban landscape.” incline of the land, with a clear view to the water.

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Around the world - in other people’s homes Twenty years of travelling via house exchange

By Joseph Blake Portrait photos by Don Denton

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or the last two decades my family has travelled all over the world by house exchange.

Last year, we undertook a three-week house exchange with a family in Reykjavik, Iceland, and at Christmas we house-exchanged with a family in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico — our second seasonal visit to the charming art colony in the mountains.

Now, we’re working on an exchange with a family at a seaside villa in southern Italy for spring.

Families from France, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Iceland, Canada and the U.S. have stayed in our cozy cottage in south Oak Bay. Sometimes we exchange cars too.

House exchange vacations aren’t for everyone. They’re a little more work than booking a hotel, but for the last 20 years, we’ve used InterVac, to arrange vacation stays in tiny apartments, palatial estates, old farmhouses and gated suburbs. Short for

International Vacations, InterVac was started in the early 1950s by a group of Swiss schoolteachers.

Besides saving hundreds if not thousands of dollars on accommodation and car rentals (we saved about $5,000 on our latest trip to Reykjavik, one of the most expensive places in the world), house exchangers also save money by having a kitchen, and making their own meals. Buying groceries and visiting farms and farmer’s markets are great ways to get to the heart of most destinations. And staying outside of the hotel zone, and in a neighbourhood, is another real advantage.

There are several house exchange organizations to choose from, but we’ve had such success with InterVac since our first exchange in Paris that we’ve gladly paid the agency’s annual fee (currently $129) and stuck with InterVac’s Euro-centric data base. Eighty per cent of InterVac’s 30,000 families live in Europe, 15 per cent in North America, 5 per cent in the rest of the world.

On our first exchange we were so nervous that we painted several rooms of our Oak bay home and completely cleared out one of the bedrooms for our guests.

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cut flowers and a bottle of BC wine on the table completes our welcome offerings, and usually we’re greeted with similar courtesy.

On that first exchange in Paris, we were met at We’ve spent the airport by the host family and driven to our Christmas living in apartment in the Marais around the corner from the Pompidou Centre. Here, we were given a an apartment in lovely meal and an offer to also stay in the family Madrid and twice home near Bordeaux ... an offer we accepted and enjoyed the season enjoyed during our three-week French adventure.

We’ve often experienced such hospitality during while staying in a non-simultaneous house exchanges. We’ve made couple of the hippest great new friends who stay in their second homes while we visit. Then we simply use their visits here neighborhoods in to spend time hiking and camping in the Rockies, New York City. touring Okanagan’s wineries, reconnecting with grandchildren in Tofino and the Comox Valley, or JOSEPH BLAKE house-sitting for friends in Victoria.

After a week in our Lisbon house exchange apartment, which overlooked the stunningly redeveloped 1998 Expo site, we took the train to the Algarve. Here, our hosts met us at the station and drove us to our seaside apartment with the offer to “pick you up at 6:00 and take you to our favourite restaurant for a local wine tasting.”

For the next two days they took us on a tour from the Spanish border to Lagos, pointing out — among many other things — the mansions owned by Hollywood stars and sports celebrities.

One of our hosts was a real estate lawyer and knew the area well.

Our exchange family in San Sebastian, Spain, drove us from the airport in Bilbao to a tour of San Sebastian’s fabled tapas bars, before helping us settle into our apartment on a hill above San Sebastian’s Urumea River, near one of the city’s Michelinstar restaurants.

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We’ve spent Christmas living in an apartment in Madrid and twice enjoyed the season while staying in a couple of the hippest neighbourhoods in New York City. Our house in Aix en Provence included a swimming pool and a brand new Renault that we used to tour the south of France.

Our next door neighbour was French soccer star Zinedine Zidane, who lived in a gated mansion with his family and an entourage of 50.

In Montreal and in Granada, Spain, we stayed in newly built suburban homes, using the excellent mass transit system in Granada and our host’s car and downtown parking space in Montreal. We stayed in a gated community in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and on a coffee plantation with papaya and avocado trees on the big island of Hawaii.

Our house exchange home on Guatemala’s Lake Atitlan — a site that author Aldous Huxley described as the most beautiful lake in the world — came with a staff of five, including maids,

gardeners and an estate manager who brought us fresh fruit juice and distilled water every morning.

We spent a long weekend at a home in Seattle, a week in a tiny, studio apartment in San Francisco’s historic North Beach, and another pleasant week in Toronto’s Leaside neighbourhood.

A proposed house exchange in the heart of Marrakesh, Morocco turned into a very reasonable rental with our own cook/maid.

People always ask, “Aren’t you afraid to have strangers in your home? Has anything ever gone wrong?”

Once we came home from a late-night flight to find our visitors hadn’t cleaned the bedding, and last summer our Berkeley house exchange hosts forgot to leave the key under the mat. By the time we finally got in, the whole neighbourhood had been alerted, and we had a dinner invitation from a pair of retired professors. It was a wonderful evening of political discussion and homemade crab cakes.

When that’s the worst thing to ever happen to you in 20 years of house exchanges, you know you’re on the right track.

IF YOU’RE INTERESTED: InterVac offers a free, two-week introduction to its database of homes around the world. I highly recommend checking it out. www.intervac.ca 1-403-210-2626 Author Joseph Blake at home in Oak Bay and (previous page, below) his quaint south Oak Bay home — a renovated 19th century dairyman’s shed that welcomes visitors from all over the world.

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Tweed editor Susan Lundy and Oak Bay High School principal Dave Thomson set up “tea” at the library of the bright, new school at the corner of Cadboro Bay and Cranmore roads.

TEA WITH DAVE THOMSON Where were you born and who is your family?

I was born in Oshawa, Ontario. My parents made the choice to move to Victoria back in the mid-1960s. That’s another story — a sort of modern homesteader’s journey. I met my wife here in 1969. She is a native Victorian. We were married in 1973 and have three children, a son and two daughters. Both of my daughters still live and work in Victoria, while my son and his spouse and our granddaughter live in Kelowna.

What do you love most about being principal at OB high?

Getting to work with young adults has been very rewarding.

They provide energy to my life every day. The students have a tremendous empathy for their world. I’m so taken by their willingness to give back to the school, the community and their world.

They give me confidence every day that the world can deal with the problems it faces. Their understanding of what is going on and their willingness to take on the issues is remarkable. I’m also fortunate to work with a very talented staff.

What do you love most about the new school?

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thing is that the students love the new school. Watching them come into the building for the first time is something I’ll never forget. “Wide eyed and slack jawed” would be my best description.

What are your hobbies?

For most of my life, coaching has been my “hobby.” Coaching emerged as a natural extension of playing sports myself. I had so many people who contributed to my opportunities that I wanted to be sure to do the same. Basketball, baseball and lacrosse have been the big three in my coaching life. The opportunities to work with amazing young athletes — a number of whom became professional athletes — has given me a window to the pursuit of excellence. Having had the opportunity to coach the likes of Steve Nash in basketball, Mike Saunders and Rich Harden in baseball and the Gait twins in lacrosse has allowed me to learn “what it takes.” It has also been rewarding for me to coach young people who have since grown into their roles as contributors to our community and our world outside of sport — athletes who have become caring parents and who have taken their lessons from their sports and used them to achieve excellence in their chosen fields.

Who is your hero/who do you admire? And why?

Not surprisingly, even though he is much younger than me, I’m drawn to what Steve Nash has done with his foundation and all of the charity work he has taken on. It can be so easy to get caught up with fame and success, but Steve has remained loyal to his core values. I once coached him … and now he “teaches” me. Steve

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What brings you joy?

My family brings me joy. I’m very fortunate that I married my sweetheart and we have been together now for more than 46 years.

I’m immensely proud of my three children who have grown into marvellous young adults, and my granddaughter who is just a wonder.

What do you see as your greatest accomplishment?

The obvious thing to say would be the development of this amazing school and being the longest serving principal in Oak Bay High’s history, but that has to take a backseat to being able to look at my family with so much pride and happiness. Accomplishments are normally the function of being given the opportunity to succeed. My wife and my children provided me with the opportunity to be a good dad and a good husband. Although the new school is a wonderful legacy, even better is a successful family.

Anything else you’d like us to know?

I feel so fortunate to have had opportunities to do things in my life that are meaningful for me. Teaching and educating young adults is an “absolute blast.” To be around students every day, even after 44 years in the business, is something that I’m so happy to be able to do. It’s great to be able to get up in the morning and want to go to work. I guess I’m simply appreciative that people believed in me.

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Dogs [dawgs, dogs] 1. The best friend of men, women and children, bred in many sizes and shapes. The Avenue [thuh av-uh-nyoo, -noo] 1. A popular destination for those seeking funky eateries, awesome art galleries and trendy stores in Oak Bay. Photos BY DON DENTON

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Clockwise from top left: 11-year-old Walker and 5-year-old Siri, Shetland Sheepdogs; 8-year-old mixed breed, Bobby; 6-year-old Rocky and his father, 8-year-old Bam Bam, Shih Tzu rescue dogs; 9-year-old Rudi, a mixed Labradoodle; and Chica, a Border Collie.

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About the photograph, Aitchison says, “Whenever possible I take it upon myself to watch the full moon rise. Normally, I head down to McMicking Point to watch it come up over the strait.

On this particular evening it was to rise near Mt. Baker, so I made my way to the beach at Haynes Park. It was a gorgeous evening as the air and water were completely still. A bald eagle called

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A Feast to Remember – Family Traditions For Generations –

When the leaves have fallen and the ground is frosty, it’s time to bring the entertaining indoors. Time for cozy fires and gathering the family around the table. Here at Pepper’s we have personal ties to local farmers and artisans, enabling us to bring you a larger selection of unique carefully crafted goods. Fresh made trays are hand made with care in our deli ready for your table. Make the most of your quality time with family this holiday season and let Pepper’s fill your table with delicious holiday treats.

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