This Time 55 Years Ago – March 1970
W̱SÁNEĆ Leadership Council2025-03-14T18:40:34+00:00Four Chiefs To Sit On Board Four Saanich Peninsula band chiefs will sit on Canada's first Indian school board, it was announced Thursday at a meeting in the East Saanich Reserve community hall. The new board will run Tsartlip day school on West Saanich Road. The chiefs - Phil Paul (Tsartlip), Gabriel Pelkey (Tsawout), Don Williams (Pauquachin), and Sandy Jones (Teycum) - will make up an interim board along with Victor Underwood Jr., Gus Bill, Marie Cooper and Tom Sampson. The four bands formed the Saanich Indian Education Association two years ago when they learned the federal government planned to [...]