620 Dunedin Street

Address: 620 Dunedin Street
Built: 1908
1912 householder: Walter Peddle, streetcar conductor

This house has a hipped roof, corbelled brick chimney and gable over a front porch with side facing stairs. There are box bays supported by small brackets on either side of the front door. There is an octagonal bay on the left side of the house, with a decorative cutaway corner board. The scroll work over the windows is similar to designs on the slightly older residence next door, at 626 Dunedin Street.

Like many houses in this part of the Burnside Gorge neighbourhood, it was the home of a BC Electric Railway employee. In 1909, Dougall R. Black, a streetcar conductor, lived here. In 1912, this was the residence of another streetcar conductor, Walter Victor Peddle. He and Margaret Jane Houston Dreven were married in Victoria on 12 November 1910. He was 23 and she was 22 years old. He was born in England and she was born on the Orkney Islands in Scotland. This was their family home until 1917 when they moved to a new house on Quadra Street in Saanich. For the next couple of years, this was the home of William Stone, manager of the Island Meat Market on Douglas Street.