Lillian Hoffar Park
Location
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North Saanich
About
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Lillian Hoffar Park is a 1.61 hectare waterfront park in North Saanich
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The park is named after the Hoffar family, who donated the land to the District of North Saanich in the 1970s
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The Tseycum First Nation originally used the land for their winter village and moved to different resource areas throughout the rest of the year
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In 1943, Henry Stonestreet Hoffar, a renowned boat builder, inventor, and engineer from Vancouver, along with his wife and naturalist Lillian Alice Hoffar, purchased the land as a retirement property, which they named ‘Windward’
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When the land was donated to the district, it came with a life tenancy for Henry and Lillian’s daughter, Irene Hoffar Reid
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Irene was a popular Vancouver artist with works in the collections of the Vancouver and Victoria art galleries
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The remnants of the Hoffar residence can still be seen in the park, including a concrete retaining wall along the shoreline, the foundation of a boathouse, traces of garden beds, a rough-cut rock wall enclosing fruit trees and perennial plants, and a boat launch
Lands
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The ancestral territories of the W̱SÁNEĆ people
Amenities
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Beach access
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Parking
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