Salt Spring Island Archives
From the collection of Eileen Heffernan Game. The man in the photos is Lewis Heffernan (Dr. James Lewis Heffernan), who was the brother of Mrs Game. Both are now deceased. They lived on Salt Spring Island between 1930-1939. (Lewis, who is the younger sibling, was 10 when he arrived in 1930 and 19 when he left to join the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1939.) His mother, Mrs Mary Heffernan, owned the Vesuvius Lodge at this time. Lewis told me that the cost to stay at the Lodge was 25 cents including all meals. People used to come over from Vancouver by ferry and stay for the weekend. He was the waiter in the dining room from age 10.
Dr. James Lewis Heffernan retired to Salt Spring Island in 1985 and lived here until January 2011. His widow, Isobel Heffernan, still lives on the island as does his son, Daniel Heffernan, who is my husband.
Carol McIntosh
Postcard showing the Vesuvius Lodge in the 1930s.
Collection: Heffernan
Location: collection of Eileen Heffernan Game
Date: [1930's]
Extent and Physical Description: digital copy
Accession number: 91-lew17
Source: Carol McIntosh
This is Mrs Mary Heffernan at Vesuvius Lodge in the 1930s.
Collection: Heffernan
Location: collection of Eileen Heffernan Game
Date: [1930's]
Extent and Physical Description: digital copy
Accession number: 91-lew12
Source: Carol McIntosh
This is a photograph of Lewis Heffernan and his dog at Vesuvius Bay in the 1930s.
Collection: Heffernan
Location: collection of Eileen Heffernan Game
Date: [1930's]
Extent and Physical Description: digital copy
Accession number: 91-lew23
Source: Carol McIntosh
We believe this is a photograph of Lewis Heffernan and his sister, Eileen Heffernan, building a tennis court at Vesuvius Lodge in the 1930s.
Collection: Heffernan
Location: collection of Eileen Heffernan Game
Date: [1930's]
Extent and Physical Description: digital copy
Accession number: lew_tennis_court_vesuvius
Source: Carol McIntosh
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