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Probably it is generclly known that
the "Savary" in "Savery Pudding" is the
name sake of the first word in Savary
Island.

A moderate number of Art students
know the Island because of visits paid
there in past summers, but many still
look forward to their first visit, for
a holiday there to sketch and paint is
a very attractive prospect.

It is usually interesting to Imow
Something of e place rhich possibly may
be visited and therefore it may not be
amiss to give a few particulars, even
though scanty, of this one.

Savary Island is sapnroximately eighty
miles from Vancouver City and lies in
the Gulf of Georgia between Voncouver
Island and the meinland.

Unlike most of the surrounding count-
ry it is largely an island of sand
with a small amount of rock, and may
have been formed by deposit from a gla-
cier which perheps came down from the
North and ended here duringthe ice age.

The island is about five miles in
length from East to West and not more
than half a mile wide from North to
South.

The Eastern extremity, know as
Green's Point is « mass of rock with a
shallow deposit of earth, forming steep
cliffs on the seaword slope.

The Western extremity of the island,
known as Indian Point, is an area of
sand dunes and here has been erected a
roomy hotel in which the Art students
have found a very comfortable home dur-
ing their severel visits to Savary.

From the North East corner of Green's
Point and encircling the whole island
to the South East corner of the same
Point is a practically continuous clean
and wide sand beach, safe for bathing
at any point.

The interior of the island is wundu-
lating or level and much of it is still
covered with primeval forest, .

With Douglas Fir, Cedar and other
woods and shrubs of all kinds, the Ar-
butus is well represented, especially
in an area near Indian Point. The larg-
est Arbutus tree on the Island is esti
mated to he one thousand years old.

On the South side of Savary are large
open meadows, sand dunes and high sand
cliffs,

No dengerous animals or reptiles in-
habit the island but there is a consid-
erable number of deer which probably
originally swom over fromthe mainland.

Trails and deer runs are numerous,
and these ~ith a wide road through the
forest to Indian Point, nearly the full

length of the island, make all parts
easily accessible.
About 1890 the sole inhabitant of

Savary Island was an old crippled man
by the name of Jack Green, He lived in