The Oak Bay Encyclopedia ^TM
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A listing of noteworthy
people, places and things from
Oak Bay's early years

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	Iechinihl 1701 Beach Drive
	1898 home of Francis Mawson Rattenbury
	Royal BC Museum and Archives | D-03003 Iechinihl Click on image to view enlargement
	Architect Francis Mawson Rattenbury built Iechinihl,1 his seaside, Queen Anne-style home in 1898, the same year he finished his work on the Parliament Buildings and married Florence Eleanor Nunn.
	For a few short years life was good at Iechinhl. Rattenbury's 1901 contract with the C.P.R. seemingly secured his future. He became reeve of Oak Bay in 1913, the same year a tudor-style addition effectively doubled the size of his home. A coach house was built in 1914. Later that year the outbreak of World War I changed his outlook on life, and on his marriage.
	Rattenbury met another woman in 1923, divorced Florence in 1925, and moved to England with his new wife in 1929.
	In 1935 Iechinihl became the home of Glenlyon School. New buildings were added and existing buildings were converted to classrooms. In 1986 Glenlyon School amalgamated with Norfolk House to become Glenlyon Norfolk School — a co-ed, university preparatory day school.
1 The name Rattenbury chose for his home — Iechinihl — is unusual in that it doesn't reference an estate in the Old Country, but rather is a B.C. aboriginal term meaning "a place of good things." A second interpretation of the term is that speech was delivered to the tribes on that very spot. (Iechinihl is situated near the mouth of Bowker Creek – a place with thousands of years of aboriginal history.)
	see Francis Mawson Rattenbury
	Ince 2021 McNeill Avenue
	1908 home of Arthur Douglas Crease
	Ince Profile material welcomed
	Individual Dry Cleaners (store #6) 2182 Oak Bay Avenue (1953–1970... phone books)
	Oak Bay franchise of a city-wide chain
Former location of Oak Bay Girls' Shop and Oak Bay Dress Shop
	Photos, artifacts and recollections welcomed
	Industrial Building
	fairgrounds building / film studio / sports complex
	Royal BC Museum and Archives | D-06990 Industrial Building 1931-1944 Click on image to view enlargement
	The Industrial Building on the Willows Fairgrounds was built in the early 1930s after the racetrack was re-aligned to accommodate more exhibition buildings. In the off-season the Industrial Building was leased to serve as a film studio and as a sports complex until the building was destroyed by fire in 1944 — the same fire that also destroyed the Horse Show Pavilion.
	see Willows Park Studio, Willows Fair, Horse Show Pavilion
	Photos, artifacts and recollections welcomed
	Inglewood Terrace see Street/Place Names section
	Inverallochy 2150 Oak Bay Avenue
	1910 home of William Henderson
	Inverallochy
	William Henderson, a stone mason and architect, built this house when he was 73. Although shrubbery obscures the house today, his block wall and iron gate can be admired from the front sidewalk.
Inverallochy is a designated Oak Bay Heritage Building
	see William Henderson
	Isobel's Kitchen 2867 Foul Bay Road (1965 phone book)
	A short-lived business before the coffee shop environment was converted to a dry goods environment.
Previous location of Rose Bowl Coffee Bar Subsequent location of Buttons-N-Bows
	Photos, artifacts and recollections welcomed
	Island Furniture Refinishers 2072 Cadboro Bay Road (1950–1952 phone books).
	— 1951 ad in phone book Click on image to view enlargement
Concurrent address of Magnet Hardware
	Photos, artifacts and recollections welcomed
	Island Road see Street/Place Names section

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