| John Green's cabin |
 John Green's cabin in 1893 (Source: Royal BC Museam, BC Archives) John Green was Savary Island's first non-native resident. He settled there in 1886, building a cabin, a store, and a small farm along the mainland side of what is now called Mace Point, but was then called Green's Point.  Green's cabin & store in 1893. (Source: BC Archives NA-41823) In 1893 Green and his business partner, Tom Taylor, were murdered during a robbery. The murderer, Hugh Lynn, was soon captured. He confessed and was hanged in 1894.  Green's cabin viewed from the East. RS Sherman on John Green Here's Sherman's description of Green from his 1932 pamphlet The Ecology of Savary Island: "When I first visited the island in 1892, its sole inhabitant was an old crippled man by the name of Jack Green. He lived in a cabin on the north shore, not far from Green's point, which appropriately bears his name. Connected with the cabin was a log structure which he operated as a store and trading post. On the slopes contiguous to his house and store he had cut down the original forest of Douglas Fir and planted various crops between the huge stumps. He had a flock of some three hundred sheep, besides cattle, pigs and poultry. Jack Green and a visitor to his ranch were murdered in 1893, as they sat at a game of cards." Notes 1. According to Gladys Bloomfield in her book Magnetic Isle, the abandoned cabin was was burned down by anonymous arsonists in the early 1930s. Kids used to explore the cabin, which was rickety, so people were worried that somebody might get hurt if it collapsed. Jim Spilsbury corroborates this: "About 1932 the derelict cabin was considered a hazard and it was burned down." |
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