1 P.K. Paul, The Care-Takers: The Re-emergence of the Saanich Indian Map (Sidney, BC: Institute of Ocean Sciences, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, 1995), 2–3.
2 G. Keddie, “The Archaeological Remains of Tod Inlet,” in Citizens Association to Save the Environment, “Brief in Support of Designation of Vancouver Portland Cement Company Area of Tod Inlet as a Historic/Heritage/Nature Appreciation Site” (unpublished report, 1991).
3 J. Gilbert, interview with the author, September 2001.
4 T. Sampson, interview with the author, Brentwood, BC, 2010.
5 D. Elliott, Saltwater People, ed. J. Poth (Saanich, BC: School District 63, 1990), 63.
6 N.J. Turner and R.J. Hebda, Saanich Ethnobotany: Culturally Important Plants of the W̱SÁNEĆ People (Victoria, BC: Royal BC Museum, 2012).
7 Elliott, Saltwater People, 75, 77.
8 Sampson, interview with the author, 2010.
9 B. Richling, ed., The W̱SÁNEĆ and Their Neighbours: Diamond Jenness on the Coast Salish of Vancouver Island, 1935 (Oakville, ON: Rock’s Mills Press, 2016).
10 Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (1979), s.v. “creek.”
11 Vancouver Island Pilot: Containing Sailing Directions for the Coasts of Vancouver Island, and Part of British Columbia; Compiled from the Surveys Made by Captain George Henry Richards, R.N., in H.M. Ships Plumper and Hecate, between the Years 1858 and 1864 (London, UK: Hydrographic Office, 1864), 50.
12 R.C. Mayne, Four Years in British Columbia and Vancouver Island (London, UK: John Murray, 1862), 153.
13 Elliott, Saltwater People, 72.
14 Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (1979), s.v. “pre-emption.”
15 E. Malladaine, “Saanich Peninsula,” in British Columbia Directory (Victoria, BC: Malladaine and Williams, 1887), 113.
16 J. Morrison, “Greig, John” (unpublished manuscript based on interviews with Mrs. Bethell in Victoria, BC, June 1982).
17 Morrison, “Greig, John,” 1982.
18 “Lime Shipments,” Victoria Daily Times, November 11, 1890.
19 “The Saanich Lime Company Limited,” Victoria Daily Colonist, April 19, 1891.
20 Morrison, “Greig, John,” 1982.
21 R. Connell, “In the Tod Inlet District,” June 27, 1925.
22 “Tod Inlet Now Hive of Industry,” Victoria Daily Times, July 22, 1905.
23 “President Ward Gives Further Details Regarding the Cement Works,” Victoria Daily Times, December 4, 1900.
24 D. Clarke, The Butchart Gardens: A Family Legacy (Brentwood Bay, BC: Butchart Gardens, 2003).
25 “Street Improvements,” Victoria Daily Colonist, May 11, 1905.
26 M.L. Parsell, “Reminiscences of Tod Inlet” (unpublished manuscript, 1958), 2.
27 “Local News,” Victoria Daily Times, September 22, 1908.
28 M. Rice quoted in S. Thompson, “Chinatown Disappeared but Legacy Remains,” Sidney Review, February 25, 1987.
29 M.L. Parsell, “Reminiscences,” 5.
30 M.S. Wirk, A History of the Sikhs of Victoria, B.C., vol. 1 (Victoria, BC: First Choice Books, 2005), 49
31 G. Bilga, radio interview, 1960, Komagata Maru Affair (1964) sound reels 478 #4A—G. Bilga interview, box 994 f.15, Canadian Museum of History Archives.
32 “Hindoos Are Coming,” Vancouver Daily World, July 20, 1906.
33 G.L. Milne, letter to Laurier, 1907, MG26-G Political Papers, Library and Archives Canada.
34 M.L. Parsell, “Reminiscences,” 9.
35 “Hindus Are in Great Distress,” Victoria Daily Times, August 13, 1906.
36 M.L. Parsell, “Reminiscences,” 4.
37 M.L. Parsell, “Reminiscences,” 4.
38 “Annual Meeting,” Victoria Daily Times, April 18, 1905.
39 Henderson’s British Columbia Gazetteer and Directory for 2010 (Vancouver, BC: Henderson Publishing, 1910).
40 G. Sivertz, “When We Were Very Young,” Victoria Daily Times, May 10, 1958.
41 M.L. Parsell, “Reminiscences,” 1.
42 M.L. Parsell, “Reminiscences,” 2.
43 “Weird Ceremony at Tod Inlet,” Victoria Daily Times, April 21, 1907.
44 “Council Deals with Routine,” Victoria Daily Times, February 9, 1909.
45 “Fell Down Hatch and Was Killed,” Victoria Daily Times, September 11, 1909.
46 “Cement Works Being Enlarged,” Victoria Daily Times, May 8, 1906.
47 “Cement Works,” Victoria Daily Times, 1906.
48 Wirk, History of the Sikhs, 127–128.
49 “A Hindoo Cremation,” Canadian Courier 2, no. 3 (June 15, 1907).
50 M.L. Parsell, “Reminiscences.”
51 M.L. Parsell, “Reminiscences.”
52 “Local News,” Victoria Daily Times, August 31, 1911.
53 M.S. Wirk, interview with the author, May 1998.
54 M.L. Parsell, “Reminiscences,” 11.
55 “Frankmount Is Due with Steel Shipments,” Vancouver Daily World, September 10, 1912.
56 “BCER Will Install New Power Plant,” Vancouver Province, November 1, 1907.
57 N. Parsell, letter to the author, September 21, 1978.
58 “In a Logging Camp,” Vancouver Daily World, January 21, 1913.
59 N. Parsell, letter to the author regarding Marmion, 1978.
60 D. Preston, The Story of the Butchart Gardens (Victoria, BC: Highline Publishing, 1996), 43.
61 “Fierce Gale Met Entering Pacific,” Victoria Daily Times, August 8, 1912.
62 N. Parsell, letter to the author, 1978.
63 H. Ewert, Victoria’s Streetcar Era (Victoria, BC: Sono Nis, 1992).
64 G. Hearn and D. Wilkie, The Cordwood Limited: A History of the Victoria & Sidney Railway (Victoria, BC: British Columbia Railway Historical Association, 1966), 61.
65 “Canadian Casualties,” Vancouver Daily World, April 1, 1916.
66 “Falls at Front,” Victoria Daily Times, September 6, 1917.
67 “Wins Belgian Medal,” Vancouver Daily World, April 8, 1918.
68 M.L. Parsell, “Reminiscences.”
69 “Robert Pim Butchart: British Columbia’s WWI Director of Wooden Shipbuilding,” Victoria Harbour History, https://www.victoriaharbourhistory.com/harbour-stories/enterprisers/robert-pym-butchart/.
70 “Blacksmith Wanted,” Vancouver Daily World, May 8, 1918.
71 N. Parsell, letter to the author, July 27, 1978.
72 N. Parsell, “A Nostalgic Excavation,” Islander (Daily Colonist Magazine), 1980.
73 “Sidney Notes,” Victoria Daily Times, October 8, 1920.
74 “Mary Brings Cement from Tod Inlet to This Port,” Vancouver Daily World, May 6, 1921.
75 “Present Parting Gift,” Victoria Daily Times, June 14, 1921.
76 N. Parsell, letter to the author, 1978.
77 B. Wright, The History of Willis Point: A Unique British Columbia Community (Central Saanich, BC: Willis Point Community Association, 2018).
78 Wright, History of Willis Point.
79 Wright, History of Willis Point.
80 Ewert, Victoria’s Streetcar Era.
81 M.L. Parsell, “Reminiscences,” 9.
82 L. Pugh, Brentwood Bay and Me, 1930-1940: A Brief History of Brentwood Bay, 2nd ed. (Saanich, BC: Saanich Pioneers’ Society Archives, 1997), 4.
83 Pugh, Brentwood Bay and Me, 2.
84 Pugh, Brentwood Bay and Me, 3.
85 Pugh, Brentwood Bay and Me, 19.
86 Pugh, Brentwood Bay and Me, 14.
87 Pugh, Brentwood Bay and Me, 18.
88 R. Connell, “Rambles Round Victoria,” Victoria Daily Times, May 16, 1924.
89 Connell, “Rambles,” Victoria Daily Times.
90 R. Connell, “October’s End in Highlands Where Ravens Fly,” Victoria Daily Times, November 7, 1931.
91 Elliott, Saltwater People, 73.
92 Elliott, Saltwater People, 73.
93 “The Venerable Chinese Loves the Famous Gardens,” Islander (Daily Colonist Magazine), April 2, 1961.
94 BC Cement Company advertisement, Nanaimo Free Press, March 22, 1937.
95 “Church Parade for Soldiers,” July 4, 1932.
96 H.A. Halliday, “Preparing for the Past,” Legion Magazine, November/December 2004.
97 Clarke, Butchart Gardens.
98 D.R. Gray, “Power Boat Squadron Patrol,” Port Hole 16, no. 3 (September 1989): 40–41.
99 “Reserve Army Stages Early Morning Raid,” Victoria Daily Times, July 24, 1943.
100 Gray, “Power Boat Squadron Patrol.”
101 Tod Inlet Power Boat Owners’ Association, Constitution of the Tod Inlet Power Boat Owners’ Association, October 25, 1964.
102 “SENĆOŦEN Home Page,” FirstVoices, https://www.firstvoices.com/explore/FV/sections/Data/THE%20SENĆOŦEN%20LANGUAGE/SENĆOŦEN/SENĆOŦEN.
103 “Annual Meeting,” Victoria Daily Times, April 18, 1905.
104 “Hungarian Partridges Released Around City,” Victoria Daily Times, November 17, 1908.
105 “Blue Grouse,” Times Colonist, August 27, 1925.
106 L. Neff, interview with the author, 1994.
107 Wright, History of Willis Point, 17.
108 R. Carver, letter to the author, 2018.
109 Ker & Stephenson, Appraisal of BC Cement Property, Tod Inlet, Municipality of Central Saanich, December 20, 1957.
110 Sivertz, “When We Were Very Young.”
111 S. Lang, “Weather Reduces Fishing Pressure,” Victoria Daily Times, November 29, 1968.
112 S. Lang, “For Anglers This Weekend,” Victoria Daily Times, May 8, 1970.
113 G. Curry, Tod Inlet: A Healing Place (Victoria, BC: Rocky Mountain Books, 2015).
114 L. Dorricott and D. Cullon, eds., The Private Journal of Captain G.H. Richards: The Vancouver Island Survey (1860-1862) (Vancouver, BC: Ronsdale Press, 2012).
115 S. Down, “Park Designation Means Big Changes for Tod Inlet Group,” Victoria Times Colonist, December 8, 1994.
116 D. McLaren, Gowlland Tod Provincial Park Archaeological Inventory and Impact Assessment, report prepared for Saanich First Nation and BC Parks (Victoria, BC: Millennia Research, 1996).
117 “Old Native Agreement May Stall Tod Proposal,” Victoria Times Colonist, March 31, 1982.
118 “Halt Sale of Tod Inlet Lots until Land Claim Settled—Band,” Victoria Times Colonist, July 20, 1994.
119 Interim Reconciliation Agreement between Her Majesty in Right of the Province of British Columbia and the Tsartlip First Nation, March 23, 2017, https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/environment/natural-resource-stewardship/consulting-with-first-nations/agreements/tsartlip_interim_reconciliation_agreement_-_signed_by_mjr_2.pdf.
120 Citizens Association to Save the Environment, “Brief in Support of Designation of Vancouver Portland Cement Company Area of Tod Inlet as a Historic/Heritage/Nature Appreciation Site” (unpublished report, 1991).
121 K. Bill, K. Bunting and T. Heeley, Seabed Imaging and Mapping System Survey of Tod Inlet: A Baseline Inventory (Victoria, BC: Camosun College Environmental Technology Program, 2001).
122 “Butchart Gardens National Historic Site of Canada,” Parks Canada Directory of Federal Heritage Designations, https://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/dfhd/page_nhs_eng.aspx?id=10910.
123 Curry, Healing Place.
124 G. Keddie, “Piecing Together Outsiders Views,” Royal BC Museum, November 3, 2016, https://staff.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/2016/11/03/david-latasse-of-saanich-and-songhees-heritage/.