There was an old house in Victoria West, immediately beside Tillicum Road and just a block or so shy of the Burnside Road intersection, that my mother would point out to me from time to time. The fact that she repeated herself told me that she had reason to remember it well. Once operated as a Relief store, it was where, as a child, her parents, armed with a relief voucher from some government agency or church, had bought her a “new” Christmas coat.
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