SOOKE HISTORY: A look back at Sooke’s first major mall development

SOOKE HISTORY: A look back at Sooke’s first major mall development

Entrepreneur Stan Eakin took a big step in the commercial development of Sooke when he built the Evergreen Mall in 1981 – not the first retail centre, but the first major mall development. In the 1970s, Doug Brownsey’s grocery store had probably been the main outlet, a business later run by Murray and Joan Plum. Longtime residents will recall this store was located in the building where Jim Mitchell and the Sooke News Mirror are both to be found…