Heritage Register
Rockland
1030 Terrace Avenue
Argyle
Built
1897
Heritage-Registered
For: John & Marie McDonald
ARCHITECTURE:
The 2007 edition of this book dated this house at 1908;
recent research has proven otherwise. This Queen Annestyle
house has a hipped roof with four pedimented gables,
three front-facing and one on the right side. The gables have
diamond-patterned shingles, and wide bargeboards with
appliquéd fretwork. On the right front is a large two-storey
angled bay; on the left are upper and lower porches separated
by a fish-scale-shingled balustrade. Both porches have turned
posts. There is an angled bay on the right side; both angled
bays have fretwork brackets with turned pendants at the
corners. The transom above the front door and the window
on the left side are multi-paned with Queen Anne and etched
glass. There is a later deck addition on the left side for two second-floor entrances. Exterior walls are now covered in
smooth stucco. The steep lot has terraces with low fieldstone
walls around exposed bedrock outcroppings.
ORIGINAL OCCUPANTS:
1897-1918: John Thomas McDonald (b. Manilla, ON
1855-1923) and Marie Louise (née Ormond, b. Peterborough,
ON 1861-1949) came to BC in the early 1890s. John had a
grocery store at the Oak Bay Junction from at least 1894; he
was later employed at MacDonald Realty.
OTHER OCCUPANTS:
1920-21: Civil engineer David Owen Lewis (1865-1947) and Caroline Martha (née Hall).
1923-27: Dom. DPW
supervising engineer Ernest Edmund Brydone-Jack (1871-
1960) and Mary Ann “Minna” (née Fisher) were born in
New Bruswick. In 1907 Ernest headed U of Manitoba’s new
engineering faculty. They moved to California.
1929-31:
Island Land & Insurance Agencies manager Sewell Prescott
Moody and Susan “Matilda” (née Gooch) (1020 St. Charles
St).
1933-40: Herman Rupert Brown (b. Duncan, BC 1887-
1966) and Evelyn Mary Russell (née Abbey, b. Regina,
SK 1886-1966) married in 1915. Herman was a successful
building contractor; by 1940 he was a real estate agent. He
retired in 1963. Evelyn came to Victoria with her family in
1901. Herman was Reeve of Central Saanich in 1954-60.
1941-42: Mrs. Helen M.T. Kearton.
1943: Margaret
Stanley; her husband Alan was on active service.
1944:
Palm Dairies foreman James Archibald Gibbs (b. Bristol,
ENG 1901-1966) and Carol Mary (née Poore) (2715
Blackwood St, Hillside/Quadra),shared the house with her
sister Olivia while Olivia’s husband Cyril Nash Curtis (b.
Manchester, ENG 1894-1958) was on active service; son
John Curtis worked at Palm Dairies with his uncle.
1945:
RCMP retiree Harry Wilkins and his wife Maude (née
Clarke).
1946-50: George S. and Nora Culhane. Nora was a
salesperson at Richardson’s News Store.
1950-51: Winifred Mary Louis (née Bourke, b.
London, ENG 1881-1976), the widow of Reginald Hinton
Louis, of 1025 Terrace Av, had 1030 converted to four
suites. They married in Kamloops in 1914, and Reginald
signed up for WWI a month later.
Tenants: 1951: Dorothy
(née Cooke, b. ENG) and DVA messenger Harold Albert
Hunt (b. Wolverhampton, ENG 1899-1951) married in
Vancouver in 1923; Harold
died of a brain tumour.
1952-53: Bank of Montreal
accountant Joseph Irwin
Landrey and Elizabeth
Jean (née Lang, B. Ottawa
1921-1990) of the RJH
welfare dept shared with
BC Tel supervisor Gordon
Frederick Stringer (b.
Hanna, AB 1924-1991)
and Marian Edith (née
Lowe).
1954: RCN officer
Nicholas J Perrault and
Gisele B.
1955: BC Forest
Products operator Gordon
W. and Ada Harding.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION & IMAGES:
• Map of Victoria's Heritage Register Properties
• Rockland History
• Rockland Heritage Register
• This Old House, Victoria's Heritage Neighbourhoods,
Volume Three: Rockland, Burnside, Harris Green,
Hillside-Quadra,
North Park & Oaklands
