Seniors housing that replaced Saanich cottages gets $4.25M federal boost

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Seniors housing that replaced Saanich cottages gets $4.25M federal boost
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It’s the last of three planned non-profit housing complexes on 6.75 acres of land near the intersection of Cedar Hill Road and Cedar Hill Cross Road, once home to post-war cottages

One of Vancouver Island’s earliest affordable-housing communities for seniors is getting a $4.25-million boost from the federal government.

“Mr. Dawson, following the second World War, realized that there were a number of women who were left either widowed — or as the term was used then — as spinsters as a result of the war,” said Karen Hope, executive director of Dawson Heights Society.As the church retells the story in its archives, the rector had expected a donation of a few hundred dollars.

The 85-unit building is expected to be complete by the end of the year and will start accepting residents in early 2025, Hope said.

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