The North Saanich area has thrift shops clustered in Sidney and Brentwood Bay. There are a couple of church shops spread around.
Near the north end at West Saanich Road (@ Clayton) is St John's United Church. The thrift shop is housed in a trailer so it's small but it does have nice items. Very reasonable prices. Lot parking.
The Sidney area houses over a half dozen shops, all between Beacon and Bevan avenues and spread between 2nd and 4th streets s very walkable. 3 are branches of Beacon Community Services and are divided into 3 shops. The 4th Avenue shop houses the furniture shop. On 3rd Avenue, adjacent to each other is the housewares shop and a clothes and other goods shop. Across 3rd from these two is an SPCA shop. Prices are quite high though. On 2nd Avenue is a Saint Vincent de Paul. Haven't found much of interest personally here. There's a pet rescue thrift shop across the street and an adjacent private one.
Free street and off-street parking though it gets busy.
Down in Brentwood Bay are spread 3 along West Saanich Road, all within 6-7 minute walk of each other. At the north end just south of Verdier is a Salvation Army shop. Small, a bit picked over and not much of interest to us. Prices high as per SAs in the area. Lot and street parking.
North of the NE corner of Wallace is a Beacon Community Services shop that specialises in clothes. The houseware shops is further south on the other side of W Saanich before Le Bure Place. It's also small but may have housewares of interest. Free lot parking.
Heading back to the highway on Keating Cross Road, one finds a Saint Vincent de Paul, a new branch to replace the closed one on Quadra in south Saanich (we found it but not sure if it is being renovated or converted into something else). It's small, and seemingly poor so not much of interest. free lot parking.
On special days, Saint Mary's Anglican church in Saanichton (Cultra west of E Saanich Road) has a parish sale in late September. We'll miss it but it's there.
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