The gift, from the estate of the late Susan Bagley Bloom, includes two acreages on the island near Beddis Beach, along with a home
Royal Roads University is expanding programming to Salt Spring Island after receiving the largest donation in the university’s history.
Faculty members are “full of ideas about what we could do with an extraordinary place like this,” said Royal Roads president Philip Steenkamp, who described the property as “quite magical.” Bloom, a granddaughter of U.S. tobacco tycoon R.J. Reynolds, was a longtime resident of Salt Spring. She was an environmental philanthropist and pioneer in land conservation and sustainability, Royal Roads said in a statement.
Trustees of the Bloom estate, Mark Horne and Jan Theunisz, said in a statement they are delighted Bloom has made a lasting contribution to “the rich fabric of life” on the island.
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