RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), [1975?] SUMMARY: Mrs. Schroeder's parents came to Victoria from North Hatley, Quebec in 1891. Another married daughter already lived there. Violet was one of eight children. The family lived on Rithet Street and at other rented homes in James Bay. Attended first services [1892] at James Bay Methodist Church (now James Bay United). Attended Kingston Street school, and then the new South Park School on Douglas Street, where Miss Agnes Deans Cameron was the principal. Recollections of Miss Cameron, her disciplinary style, and her Arctic travels, resulting in the book "The Far North". High school. Trained as nurse at Royal Columbian Hospital in Sapperton. Married Frank James Schroeder [in 1903]. Childhood recollections: games, clothing, Sunday dinners. The Dilworth family.