56_Quentin-Wilson_Fulford-Marina.mp3

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21.01.2023

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Thanks for joining us. We'll have to open it again for discussion but the way I found Saltspring unique in a paragraph. Christine is evictions might be annoying. Thank you hear me. I'm usually loud. And I'm shouting and when I talk softly they can't hear me

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really began before we left our home in Long Beach, California to travel by Boston Murray and Frank and Ellen here. Learn to vlog booking a holiday cruise to Alaska on the steamer Queen of the North on Vancouver in September 1950 Just to travel here, Victoria and off to felt free to view the property that there was a one day plan to retire on. We arrived at the pulsar at COVID on the site back after George dwad Welcome into the bridge Upon approaching the dock you pointed out the new subdivision just completed from Ramallah fine it's tough to enjoy the view and flower and now if I can show you the picture of what the property look like when I say that gender is better as an option

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you look closely you can see a bass with a boat on it above it at home do you think can you focus that a little bit not clear and that's what we saw from the official repairs on the day we came to Salt Springs to view these people's property next

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prepare for which the picture was taken. And you can see the ferry landing was in a different location than it is today

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was a Mr Hamilton harbour and then a restore online broken he drifted to the heavens that could damage the boat too much. And why was waiting for it?

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Hi tiny walked over to the little Bridge Street to come down the creek and lo and behold he just reached down and picked up about a 12 pound salmon by the Gill was that offers history

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Jack rollin photos

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on my beats that were drifting all constantly. Many people brought their dog up bear that as you're complaining state

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for share short with a famous shower. No way that you could put a boat afloat close to the beach.

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The corporate post topics from Percy Jones with postmaster beautiful

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return Today we're doing the property that we acquire

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Thursday admitted to our new standard as well as abnormal profit above death.

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Again, looking down the hall at the top of the roadway, a little boathouse in the foreground, on the beach. That's one of the Moloch down at one time, a little rainbow that shows the float on the front and on the front of your new

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cat. Draghi has a vote alongside our clients, file drivers when it's storming. Outside Docker footprint, and the contract is rebuilt. For Sale, the government has a new quote, and I acquired the news at the beginning of whatever we're done.

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is what I call a flaming pair. It's on our waterfront. And in the frame, just now Austin, like beautiful blossom, but never fall in love. And the process is to turn to this glorious place.

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what you need to change, though, to get anyone here because it's filled with dark fire, that you don't walk up and touch. And hundreds of pictures that we've taken from the ferry command. It's an unusual treat. If you know I don't know if

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that's a little different than I thought maybe you'd like to read in history in a way that's obnoxious was that my friend is the business fishing I did have off Catalina Island. I made a little tool for him, told him this book after 400 of those times. And he had died of that. And other small fishing boats in the area are so small and don't know that when they were traveling at sea, they look like a cannon car of a submarine. And a number of them was blasted out of the water. So I was very anxious for him to have this larger boat on top of it, the identification and on the side of it. The identification is in the largest letters possible to be seen by the air and in the sky. I don't know what it is like to speak. I might say that we want to see more from Doubletree rock, Rob. On the sixth day. I've got about 150 slides to show in the afternoon. That follows the principle of reason. With a brother Guide is a mountain 7000 feet high. Until two years ago, they lost an average of one person a year by people being foolish enough to walk out on a model and finally have factored in such a way that it's almost impossible for children to get out to call people but it's a beautiful thing. I know you've all heard of and many of you may have been there. I can't everyone because I have the time to see the chatterbox for you. Oh if I may have right

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then and do the jars at Ramallah, poverty that was for sale. Continuing to Ganges we asked Colin more to show our friends property that I spoke of earlier. One was next to heart is that saw the point. Why ever? At any rate, why was this ever called such as you go back a little a few years and look at the Admiralty charge. The name of this island was Admiralty Island. Why wasn't it left alone?

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So much prettier name?

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The Saltspring where there's no salt, no spring, just swamp

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continued on

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to Vancouver. Nanaimo told that the steamer for avoid trying to mirror the scenery. And the beauty of the city of Vancouver was very exciting. The central Vancouver in the evening with a glorious sunset. I stayed room because loads of the fruit and flowers I can find on every passenger that treatment. On hearing the call, science progresses with this standard the stairway and was met by the head steward and as our names were told that we were to sit at the captain's table together with Mr. Yardley, who was at a customs in Victoria and for other customs personnel. Needless to say we were dumbfounded and very pleased. We were well received the suit became well acquainted and it poured a fall.

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followed up within five minutes of different departments caught up with and pointed out all the points of interest. It's claimed the history of weather was perfect. And I enjoyment beyond belief. The return trip was the same. And understandably, replied Mr. Yardley and the others with questions regarding the possibility of our emigrated to Canada. upon our return to Vancouver, the magnetism of soft drink juice here again wasn't go down 99 It plated here. So we came again. We went to salt Greenland. We made deposits on one property and return to Fulford on our own. We viewed law subdivision again and met neighbors by the name of Nancy and Bert brought it. I know some of you know them. Because she gave us a garden tidy the floral arrangement like you wouldn't believe and was very popular. She was a nurse in the area of Athlon. And Burt Rogers was the government agent there before they retired before for carbon. Since Captain mallet was running a ferry on the outer islands and could not be reached. I left my business card with Mr. Rogers with a cash offer for the property. Upon my return home my father telegram hanging on my door, accepting my offer and to make payments to the Bank of Montreal. I did and a few days later I received a telephone call from Colin boy who sounded very upset saying that he did not want us to acquire this property after hearing from him to dissuade me

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I asked him Kaplan law it was in his office

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and insisted that Leslie got on the phone

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Well, let's play that we obtained title. Because Leslie said ideally the deal, I want you to have it we want you to be our neighbor.

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But you can't make payments to the Bank of Montreal.

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Gotta make the payments to Saltspring last limited

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our excitement and desire to come here after all the help given us by the Canadian consulate in Los Angeles. Raiders club, sell my business. These are all contract trucks, trailers and car and get involved at what I put out ability to transform the property before I left donated the entire old model on the farm home to Mr. Frank grant of Fulford he was doing quite a lot of carpenter work at the time. I hired Mr. Fred Haim, the Bulldog, the remains of the home Jackie coat and pile it up and burn it. He rented a cottage across the road and rented the entire building which is now Addison store from Walter Q. I know

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anything about

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the deal of water at a garage and I've moved my equipment in

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longer didn't want to accept $5 A month it was too much and also tried to receive payment

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but we had it was way over six months because how hospital was that? We're moving our equipment up here because you'll have to hurry a little bit to that. I wouldn't have done a suitcase for the day. And then everything went by you can North Dakota and before I headed towards off break and when it landed here landed in a bonded warehouse in Vancouver

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to be approved at 30

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So when the customs agent is Sydney found out about it he got hot on the phone. He ordered the people over there to put it on the bonnet truck and deliver it to Sydney that's what we have to trust them

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we started our hobby shop in the store and furniture decided on location for our new home got Fred Hollings to do for the foundation and made it make us a new access to for for James's road because the existing was one was a steep hill leading directly into the requirements that was the only access at the time we bought the target every business in Victoria was helpful and easy to do business with permits were easy to get we did the electrical wiring ourselves when the electrical inspector stated as designed to document this was the finest wire home and thought freehand mainly because I use one side wire too much and I left slack in the wire I didn't tighten everything to skip the plane. I did it right Mr day Mr. Mrs. effort and Mr. Maxwell came over me and none other than those five doing or asking it's water which the well they all fall in the same place

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and there are days and

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weeks apart of them doing imagine that we dug a well and installed What's your pump and during the well until the new water system was installed from Western Lake and we went there and went on the system at first it was the wooden same pipe if you've never seen one I sort of brought luck because it's made out of the woods that are bandit but if I could drum rain barrel wouldn't rain barrel that is where you that water from West Lake

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by the time I was accessed this time I was anxious to get going on the real reason for me for my coming here. I wanted a boat and have a place on our waterfront for more liability Mr. Hislop, in the department of lands and forests. I learned that to be legal. Of course you I permit or at least was required. A legal lease was what requested and in terms of list. As we realize later when I took my wife to visit her mother in California, a person circulated a petition claiming I was wanted by the FBI And I was an undesirable area

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for people

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who didn't know me from the pilot. So, I went back to Mr. Hislop. Thank you Well, I guess I have to forgive it. But I thought I could dig one hole for one vote and not break too many laws that I get that he said follow meaning if overhaul the Blackboard up paper, follow people what you plan to do. And I did. They said it was the largest meeting ever held on spring

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placement jam.

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I don't know why. Because nobody was asking for something different I guess. But 100 names were removed immediately. And apologies were given for coming up in a

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list was approved. And the work problems really started. surveys were made. Sorry authorities, Canadian Coast Guard and provincial boundaries were required. When those were approved and monuments and concrete pedestals were located, permission to dread dredge or deepen. The water on the foreshore was required. The provincial government has title to other things God not the federal government, the provincial the federal government pollution from progressive I call that out one time the sidetracker title on the side of the dock I call the Ministry of Transport,

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hey, get over here. Get this out of the way the calls can get in places like government

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they flew over before they landed on the dock and he came over and he had a chart I'm sorry, but it says in order for the federal government to get their flippin as deep of water as possible

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on the border of the ferry lease and the fight back didn't have to move is taken kind of funny

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anyway when I modified the federal government material that I had to remove the need to be done by like they did it it's in a clamshell did on the barges and took it out in a deep way and bulldozers and pushed it back in the ocean to settle I told the government that I wanted to bring the land back on sure where it came from. And I met was met with approval nothing further please. So I got permission to drink

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now how am I going to do it? I'm not a logger. I just try to think a little bit I had an equivalent power will know how everything fell into place. By inquiry and diligent and some look a storm had wrecked it outside government float I showed it to you in the picture. Rack I bought the wrap hardware overhead the hallway for Mr. Jones of the Victoria battery covenant. He owns Moresby Island. I met him when they're getting a battery for a customer.

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So I got him early 2009 about the sun hanging on a cliff out and resume is above the surface. On a

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barge. You said you had to take a filter. Use the power of this logging gonna kick to graduate so I got a hold of tippy haul. I'm in Hamilton got crazy toes This is the foot up neuron up, pushed up against the car. And thank goodness it was so high Chris where we put it again. After recovering the tail because of the thing would have slid through in the ocean. We just turned it loose.

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But Skippy wrote it down. And we got back

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and put it right above the bar because it was a clip At least I did try to do anything to get it abroad. We go further back to forefront harbor close to the beaches because all our company has left to and concrete block on my first show.

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I told my mother that you got to do these 10 times one over

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a barge over one of these days with a grant and we'll drag him aboard and take them away for you. Are they hung up he told me that this is a

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very very useful box. When Allah

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I had to move you wouldn't know how to fix it are always about 60 feet long, tied together. Right he fired a low tide six by sixes across a heavy Manila line through the grid ring on top of the book. And that's the title of them. And then tide come in we lifted 1010 Took a while we wanted an x and y and I jump about this far when headphones dropped off. But that's how we moved to 10 Tundra.

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I was given this murdy 20 Log if you don't speak to use as long as I cared to whether he records it but I think it's a Moresby Island and I love it. When John at that time he was trying to log

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powered Howard Horrell had us dragline doctor to follow some of the follow up for the grinders now behind the Fetzer candidate. And I found him found out I could rent the machine the backup from him now had the logon, machine around checks and what is called Swifters. There's small log reach across log booms to time the boom together along I put them behind those old dolphins over there 100 years just offshore and use that for a tail hold. And hooked on to this bucket and the tail hook jerk the bucket out and came up with the merde 20 Dawsey pulling on the main line instead of telephone. It was bolted in over with bottom and it flooded. But it was clamped. Why? And I'll tell you the lie. There were hundreds of millions of clams dredged on that fourscore before I got started getting rock instead of clams. They were from the little butter clam and the feed dogs and the neighbors that claim to come in by boat to get five fish right. And they're all dumbfounded what is numbskull trying to do. So we got it done. I dug deep for about 15 feet deep below low water. And I moved to a hole and would chew on the side of that ditch that I made. And we just keep moving slowly across the bay until I had some deep water and it was up and take re do y'all know take grid farm halfway to town raised pigs for a while and they did a beautiful job of picking all the routes how to respond. Anyway, he loaned me a bulldozer because I made it run and he didn't mind after would work. Anyway, we went to work. That really helped me for a little while. And I begged him one time not to put the wire on a big log. But to stand on the outside of anytime I put the power on. You don't want somebody on the inside of the lines like a table with a table. Nothing 20 legs off or throw them overboard. Anyway, the result of our efforts in my life being a whistle pump and fat being gone. The two of us were in the throes of the delay in getting our post or at least we didn't couldn't get a great start. And we're late September came in the last time out there in the rain, trying to tell me where the bucket was. It's time to quit. There's a flip book on gun to you

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but there was 60,000 cubic yards taken out

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was lucky.

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In my travels around Victoria to learn about very famous boatbuilder, the Baron brothers, who's had a barman, suit,

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often the suit and they just put up

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a building in which they could build fishing boats. So that's what I had always thought the bottom line was the first pleasurable they ever built. But it's a fish boat designed with the deep, heavy duty boat. All the changes I made was the Skype for I was in the way of a cabin. And I started it on March 1, and the end of June it was totaled in front of my house because being a Marine machinery I assisted on setting the power and fuel and electrical things avoid myself and I couldn't find a chip right on Saltspring to save my life. I bought a Jitterbug saw a bunch of heavy birch plywood and then inside of myself and I had Todd Jack been so thick that I put three inches of styrofoam above the Celotex and then

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stretched across

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pretty deep. And our first trip was take it to Seattle for the World's Fair I can't give you the year. I have to make records I suppose I've gotten

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6464 62

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And I was leaving Fulford harbour and put the head up who was the manager of Woodward's store, who has got acquainted with us to the plate that never was a 10 day period, winter or summer that he was a title on site of my float. We had wonderful fun, we traveled together sometimes the two blokes and he met me out at the end of Fulford harbour without any means anything about it and gifted me radiotelephone that I could listen to all the ship talk, as well as all the other patients destroyed. That's how much and how easy it was to make friendship with people up here. And every time I build a finger, try to float there were people that want to occupy before we're done. So that could have gone on and on and on. But it came at a time when it was time to quit or we wanted to use our boat. So every month on June 26 for five years. They take off and we'd go through the URL and password all of the little inlet view then let's represent that God's pocket. We have found the folder where you put a lobster pot down with a piece of rock cod in it you know go away and leave it in 20 minutes. It was 150 crab in the pot. You check

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out the ones

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you want. And friends and neighbors and the life with has the finest crab Louie ever saw. brought aboard our boat and that's story of how we built the Marina Infoprint harbor that's your

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story about building the marina and all the rest of it

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everybody