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13, and daughter Anna, 10 — as
Farrant gave up her job to write
full-ume.

“It’s not a dual-income family,”
she notes.

One sacrifice, keeping only one
car on the road, tumed out to be
blessing for Farrant, who finds the
lack of transportation keeps her
home and writing.

She hopes the sacrifices now
will lead to increasing recognition
of her work.

“Writing was always my desire
and my goal.”

BOND PRESERVES PAST

Another first-time author, Bea
Bond, preserves her own past and
the past of the island community
she loved in Looking Back on
James Island, a history of the
Canadian Explosives plant and
company town on the island off
the Saanich peninsula.

Bond lived on the island from
1950 to 1962, handling secretarial
and public information chores in
the company office.

It was then she first began
gathering information about the
island’s history.

Her husband, James W. Bond,
was the first child on the island
and the couple were the last to
move away when the company
town was closed.

She first wrote a history of the
company and town in 1963 when

aot Explosives Ltd. celebrated
~ its 50th anniversary on James
Island.

Those notes plus research col-
lected from a 1970 reunion of the
Hugh and Christina Munro family
formed the basis of her book.

She worked hard to: finish the
book so it could be published
during Sidney’s Centennial year.

“I feel it was a tribute to the
community,” she said.

“Tt was like a Shangra-la over

~ there. We were all neighbors, no
doors locked and no fences
between the properties.”

fair and special events, including a
1957 fashion show of then-trendy
sack’ dresses made from real
burlap and flour sacks.
Another highlight was a fashion

Diamonds can be a man’s
best friend, too, when it adds
that final touch of elegance
and sophistication to his ap-
pearance. Twelve fiery
diamonds combined with
lustrous gold in a strong
masculine design.

Such a powerful statement
at such a modest price!

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show of a new wash-and-wear
fabric developed by C-I-L, which
included the models taking off the
clothes, tossing them into an on-
Stage washing machine and dryer
and then putting the clothes back
on.

The book is selling well at local
outlets, Bond reports. She will be
going to Nanaimo for an autograph
party in the next few weeks.

She notes the new owners of the

island, Pacific Parkland Properties,
also ordered several copies of the
book.

For Bond, the greatest reward
was preserving the story.

“I was mainly anxious to get
down all the details because I’m
the only one who has all the
particulars on hand.

“It’s the end of an era. The
company was there for 70 years
and they should be remembered.”

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