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· From the 1919 Wrigley’s BC Directory. "Royal Oak - A post office and village 5 1/2 miles north of Victoria, in Saanich Provincial Electoral District, on the Victoria and Sidney branch of the G.N.R. Has telephone office, Anglican church. Population about 200."

· The Cheeseman family became the first settlers in Royal Oak around 1853.

· Land was donated in 1865 by the Bailey’s and the first Lake District school was built.

· St. Michael’s and All Angels Church was built in 1883 and served as a mission from St. Luke’s, Cedar Hill Crossroad.

· Electric light first came to Royal Oak in 1913 and the telephone in 1914. Mrs. Heal was the first postmaster at Royal Oak.

· The Royal Oak Institute was started in 1910, meeting in members’ homes.

· In 1939 Mr. and Mrs. Colin Forrest built what became the Maltwood estate and then the Chantecler Restaurant and now the Fireside Grill.

· Currie House was named after Dr. Walter Currie, a missionary from West Africa.

· The Scout movement started in 1926 and Guides and Brownies started in the 1930s.

02/05/2008

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