CLAY, ELLIS & AVERY 1940 – 1950

The Old Shawnigan Lake Community Hall 1945

1940 – 1950

1946 Last photo taken
1946 The last photo was taken at the first cabin built in 1904, before the fire, Ellis’ and Halls.
In 1948, the Shawnigan Lake property was passed down to the Clay children following their mother’s passing.

Helen (Clay) Ellis built the family’s Pan-Abode cabin in 1948, while Jack and Laura Clay constructed their cabin a year earlier, in 1947. Remarkably, both cabins are still in use today. Helen and Billy Ellis lived in Vancouver before relocating to Victoria in the early 1950s.

After the original cabin burned down in the fall of 1946, Helen Clay and her sisters had a Pan-Abode cabin built for them in 1949. A year earlier, in 1948, their brother Jack built the other cabin with his new wife, Laura.