Janice M. de Cunha

December 02, 1942 - August 12, 2016

Daughter of Margaret and Randolph Caldecott, Janice was born in Edmonton, AB, but has called her beloved house on Cordova Bay home for the last 48 years. Janice lived to improve the lives of others. After obtaining a Master's in Social Work from UofT, she worked with people at Glendale and Tillicum Lodge, the BC Cancer Agency, the Memorial Pavilion at the Jubilee and the Lodge at Broadmead. She was a founding member of the Cordova Bay Association for Community Affairs and volunteered on the board of Coast Capital Credit Union among other positions. She was a supportive and proud mother and grandmother. She loved hiking, walking, golf, travelling, the arts, and above all, reading. If readers can be categorized as those who are learning to read and those who are reading to learn, Janice was certainly the latter: she was a voracious reader who read to be informed, for pleasure and especially to complete the crossword. She is predeceased by her former husband, Peter, her parents, and younger sister, Carolyn. She is survived by children, Ian and Andrew, grandchildren, Asia, Maxwell, Tristan and Emma-Lin, her brother, Peter (Christel) and nieces and nephew. Stoic till the end, it is hard to imagine her not being here. Celebration of life will be held September 18th, 1:30 pm at 4979 Cordova Bay Rd. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Greater Victoria Public Library or your favourite literacy charity.