Sport & Recreation in Oak Bay - Municipal Hall foyer display July 2022

Are you reading the full article with photos? Click the title above or URL below:

https://connect.oakbay.ca/archives/news_feed/sport

The July theme over at Explore Your Archive on Twitter @explorearchives, run by the Archives & Records Association of the UK and Ireland is SPORT! To join in on Twitter, follow #EYASport and #ExploreArchives . I've adapted this to Sport & Recreation - where's the line?

George Murdoch, Reeve of Oak Bay, provides considerable detail about the history of sports and recreation in Oak Bay in his history (1968), pp.186-193: click here

OBA PR 235 Taylor Album 1.17C Sack race at the Drake Hardware company picnic [nd, ca 1914]. Definitely a sport, especially with hats. Samuel J Drake was Reeve of Oak Bay 1920-22 Richard Ratcliffe Taylor, company secretary at Drake Hardware, was also Reeve 1936-40.

OBA PHOT 2012-001-004 Horse racing at Willows Park (Exhibition Fairgrounds), now Carnarvon Park area. Looking up Lansdowne slope: houses at top right are on Cadboro Bay Road, electricity poles across the top of the slope indicate Lansdowne Road. Photographer unknown. [nd, ca. 1930.]

OBA PHOT 2012-001-104 Oak Bay minor hockey team at Esquimalt Arena, ca. 1985

OBA 2012-001-106 Boys’ soccer team in front of the original Windsor Park Pavilion. Tom Whittemore back row far left, Walter C Brynjolfson back row far right. Photographer: Wilfred Gibson, 1940-1941

OBA PHOT 2012-001-052 Victoria Lawn Tennis Club (founded 1886) members at their second location at Foul Bay Road x Fort, occupied 1910-1966. Photo ca 1937. Not to be confused with Oak Bay Tennis Club, founded 1911 as BC Electric & Railway Tennis Club, based first at Oak Bay Park (now Windsor Park), now on Bowker. Or is it the other way around? We need more photos!

OBA PHOT 2013-018-003, Liz Conlon collection. Horses and riders from Carley’s Victoria Riding Academy, by the Willows Fairgrounds (now Carnarvon Park area) ca. 1945. In the background is Cadboro Bay Road at Tod Road and Hamiota Street.

OBA PHOT 2015-010-082, Pattinson Collection. Oak Bay young men on a bike hike, ca 1937. L-R: Don Smith, Jack Syme, unidentified, Roy Pattinson, Ray Walls.

OBA PHOT 2015-010-90 + 92, Pattinson Collection. Joan Pattinson playing tennis in the yard of the Pattinson family home and pharmacy at 2228-2248 Oak Bay Avenue, now the location of the Penny Farthing Pub. Summer 1938.

OBA PHOT 2012-001-016 An Army ice hockey team that played out of the short-lived Olson Arena (Victoria Memorial Arena, former Horse Show building) in the Willows Fairgrounds, north of Fair St x Eastdowne during WWII (nd, 1941-44)

OBA PHOT 1994-016-033, McCrimmon Collection. Oak Bay Girls' Drill Team at Willows Exhibition Fairgrounds, 1 July 1946. Demonstration as part of the Lions Club Dominion Day Tin-Lizzy Derby at the racing oval.

OBA PHOT 2003-005-005 Gwladys Downes Collection. Oak Bay High School Girls’ Field Hockey Sevens, and friends, on playing field facing Cranmore Road in the spring of 1930. Back row L-R: Marjorie Checkley, Peggy Walton (P.W. Packard). Front row L-R: Mary Sparrowhawk, Phyllis Mackintosh, Dorothy (Dot) Hunton, Mollie Bywood and dog Biddy, Adele Bucklin, Gwladys Downes, Jane McIlmoyle, Joyce Adams.

I didn't have space to include material about the Bee St Rec Centre and other recreational facilities in Oak Bay, or the 1994 Commonwealth Games - more for another time.

Reference library books on display:

Peter Corley-Smith, Victoria Golf Club 1893-1993 : one hundred treasured years of golf

Helen Edwards, The History of Professional Hockey in Victoria BC 1911-2011

George Metcalfe, The Oak Bay Tennis Club 2011: 100th anniversary

Terry Reksten, A Century of sailing, 1892-1992 : a history of the oldest yacht club on Canada's Pacific Coast

John Schofield, Sticky Wicket: over 150 years of cricket on Vancouver Island

Questions? Please get in touch!

Website: https://www.oakbay.ca/archives

Photo Search: https://www.oakbay.ca/archives/photographs

Blog posts: https://connect.oakbay.ca/archives

Email: archives@oakbay.ca

Phone: 250-598-3290

- Post by Anna Sander, 19 July 2022.

To cite: Sander, Anna. (2022, July). 'Sport & Recreation in Oak Bay - Municipal Hall foyer display July 2022'. [Blog post]. District of Oak Bay, Archives. Retrieved from https://connect.oakbay.ca/admin/projects/archives/news_feed/sport [date].