Gayle Neilson

She wrote the Elphinstone Chronicles column in the Coast reporter between 2018 and 2022, having lived there for

thirty-six years. She wrote about the history of the Elphinstone Community Association, which started in the 1960s, and its meeting place, the Frank West Hall. She revealed how certain streets came by their names, about Chaster House, Cedar Grove School, great artists, the farm gate stands, Reed Road Forest, and the woods of Elphinstone’s northern boundary. However, she was unable to find out is the Indigenous name for Mount Elphinstone.