Title Search: Four Families at Mahara Woodlands, 1925-2025

Richard Mackie explores the tenure, architecture, and inhabitants of a house on Tsehum Harbour in North Saanich known as Mahara Woodlands — Mahara being a Maori word meaning “memory” or “recollection.” The four owners include the daughter of an English baronet, a silent film actor, a decorated captain of the North Atlantic run, and an eminent zoologist. Mackie, who has made contact with all four families, shares their remarkable stories that were enacted, sometimes literally, on the stage of Mahara Woodlands.

BC Historian Richard Somerset Mackie has an honours MA in mediaeval and modern history from the University of St. Andrews. He is the publisher of the British Columbia Review.

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