3025 Arbutus Avenue

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The McIntyre cottage address is 3025 Arbutus Avenue. A combination woodshed

and bunkhouse sits on the adjacent lot to the west (3021 Arbutus). There is a lovely ocean view over a third and vacant lot in front, with the address 3006 Malaspina Promenade.

The 1915 records show this property as registered to W. Vaughan-Robinson, with a J. Quinsler, c/o Edgett Stores of Vancouver on title from 1916 to 1921.

In 1922 the property was listed as J. Quinsler, c/o W. Vaughan-Robinson.

In 1923 it was purchased by Vancouver dry goods store owner James Anthony McIntyre.

The cottage was built in 1924 by George Duncan, a cousin of Harry Keefer. George Bloomfield constructed the fireplace and plastered the living room walls. The original house colour was a dark black/brown, the stain created from bunker oil, thinned with kerosene and mixed with iron oxide. Duncan then helped to complete the Royal Savary Hotel after the first contractors failed to perform. He was able to take on the hotel project because he was in the process of moving his business from Vancouver to northern B.C. and had idle workers he didn’t want to lose. James McIntyre and his wife Jessie enjoyed summers with their son Tony and daughter Jeanie. Jeanie married into the Maitland family whose property is at Lang Bay, between Powell River and Saltery Bay.

Mr. and Mrs. Duncan in the 1920s with Jessie McIntyre on the porch

In 1946 the title changed to Tony and Dorothy McIntyre. They had two sons, John and James (Jimmy).

In the late 1950s, Bill Mace incorporated the screened porch into the present day living room and George Bloomfield plastered the walls to match those he had done in 1924. At the same time, Alan Mace built the woodshed/bunkhouse.

Tony McIntyre remarried and in 1960 the title was changed to Tony and Pat McIntyre. Pat’s three children Greg, Dan, and Carol took the McIntyre name and the blended family of seven spent summers at Savary.

In 2000 the title was changed to Tony’s sons John (Cora) and James McIntyre.

Jimmy Mcintyre died in 2017 and ownership was changed to John McIntyre, his children Ian McIntyre and Mary (m. Beccario) and Jimmy’s children Melinda, Dana, Jaimie and Joanna.

And now another McIntyre generation, the fifth, has become part of Savary history.