Sylvia Estes Stark at middle age
Image 989024014 Courtesy of Salt Spring Island Archives, Professional Photographer. Research Credit: Lynne Bowen.
Sylvia Stark moved to Cedar on Vancouver Island in the early 1870’s. She returned to Salt Spring Island in the early 1880s. She missed her neighbours and life on Salt Spring. She worked the farm with her son Willis. When this farm at Fruitvale, Ganges Harbour was sold in 1912, the Starks moved to their acreage near St. Mary’s Lake. The family still owns the original homestead and the road through their land is named Stark Road. Some of the properties which were subdivided from the Stark’s land have apple trees planted by Willis Stark which continue to bear fruit today.