The Galiano Club Logo

In the early 1980s, islander & artist, Keith Holmes, completed a series of ink drawings of old Galiano buildings which included the 1920’s-era Galiano Community Hall owned & managed by the Galiano Club. The Hall drawing, shown above, included a 1937 Chevy truck owned by Bruce Pearson.

All of the drawings were put up for sale except the Hall one with Keith keeping it for possible future use of the Club. In the 1990s, while serving as a Club Director, Keith offered the design for use on t-shirts to be sold as part of a fundraising project. Eventually Keith put the drawing into an oval and included the words, ‘Galiano Island Community Association since 1924’ commenting, “in order to counter the idea that this was an exclusive organization as implied by the word ‘Club’. Slowly this oval design began to be used by the Galiano Club as a ‘logo’, on stationary, on banners, on park signs. Finally, in 2020, the Club approached Keith for the rights to this design which he generously agreed to. The Board of Directors subsequently formally adopted the Keith Holmes design as the official Galiano Club logo.