A little sketch from 2003 of the Martindale Flats, looking along Martindale Road in Central Saanich eastward toward the Strait of Georgia. During all my years of going back and forth along the Pat Bay highway, I've watched the ugliness slowly creep north from suburban Victoria and south from Sidney, so that today there is only a small piece of the peninsula, between Martindale and Island View roads, that still offers a really rural panorama. There is a fine old farmhouse from c. 1910 in the trees on the right, address 2735 Martindale Road, that I know nothing about.

Note from Ada: I grew up in that area in 1960. The house used to be used for boys between ages of 14-16, that used to get in trouble with the law, and their families could not keep them under control. The family that took those kids in, their name I am not too sure of, whether it was Mitchems or Machens. I went to Mt.Newton Junior High with them and eventually married one of them. Marriage did not last, though.