![]() ![]() (A shell midden near today’s Agate Park marks the site of a Songhees village dating back 1,000 years.) ![]() Eric’s father, George McMorran, arrived here from Ontario in 1890, when his family took a job managing the Rithet farm (now the Broadmead district), and they spent their summers camping down on the sands of the vast bay, crossing paths with a few Songhees natives hunting for deer and digging for clams. It’s hard to imagine Cordova Bay without the McMorrans. “I grew up here, and I would like to see it go on. ![]() “I’m quite emotional about this place,” Eric McMorran, 84, says over a bowl of clam chowder (the best in Victoria) in the restaurant at McMorran’s Beach House, a business that’s been in his family since 1919, and will close forever this Easter weekend. ![]()
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