Helen
Dawe Collection -- Index
Series
6
Aerial
Photographs (6.1)
Bog,
Marsh Sechelt (6.2)
General, Panoramic
views (6.3)
General, Panoramic
views (6.4)
Identified
buildings (6.5)
First Nations
of Sechelt (6.6)
Individual
people/groups (6.7)
May Days, picnics,
etc. (6.8)
Resource Industries
(6.9)
Schools (6.10)
Ships
(6.11)
Transportation
(6.12)
Whitaker
family (6.13)
Cook,
Dawe, Steele, Whittaker familes (6.14)
Series
2
General
A-Z -- The Crucils
Series
10
Union
Steamship and All Red Line Companies
Series
11
Captain
Sam and Ada Dawe
Series
13
The
Sechelt Inn
Series
20
Souvenir
brochures, postcards
Series
24
Merry
Island lighthouse
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Series
10 -- Union Steamship and All Red Line Companies, 1889-1971, Page
1
The
Union Steamship Company, one of the first Vancouver-based shipping
lines, was founded in 1889, acquiring the assets of the Burrard Inlet
Ferry Company. The new company's first passenger and freight vessel,
the SS Cutch, was purchased in India, arrived in June 1890 in Vancouver
and immediately was put on the Vancouver-Nanaimo route. The Company,
requiring vessels to supply the increasing number of logging camps
and new settler's homeas along the British Columbia coast, had three
vessels built in Vancouver's Coal Harbour. The first was the SS Comox
which sailed regularly to Powell River and stopped at various settlements
along the Sunshine Coast. The Union Steamship Company acquired Sechelt
resident Herbert Whitaker's Sechelt Shipping Line, his hotel, cottages,
wharf and general store at Sechelt after his death in 1926. From then
until the mid-1950s, thousands of visotors and permanent residents
were transported regularly to and from their homes, holiday cottages
and places of work by Union Steamship Company vessels. The All Red
Line operated two vessels, the SS Selma and the SS Santa Maria from
1911 until 1917 between Vancouver, Selma Park, Sechelt and Powell
River. The company had acquired seven acres in the Selma Park area
and established a successful resort with a wharf, dance hall, cottages
and lodge until the ships and buildings were taken over by the Union
Steamship Company in 1917. In 1951 the Black Ball Ferry Company began
to carry cars and passengers between Horseshoe Bay in West Vancouver
and the Sunshine Coast causing an increase in traffic along the coast
by highway. By 1957 the last stretch of highway linking Gibsons to
Egmont and Powell River was completed and in 1959 the ferry terminus
was moved to Langdale. Two years later the Black Ball Ferry Company
was purchased by the B.C. government. For over fifty years the Union
Steamship Company had serviced B.C.'s coast communities and resource
industries. Without it, logging operatiosn, fishing, fish packing
plants, mining exploration, and tourism and the communities that grew
up aruond these industries would not have developed as they did.
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10.1a
1925
or 1926 -- cover and inside material from Union Steamships brochure
promoting their Vancouver to Savary Island route.
Brochure
by Union Steamships Company
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10.1b
1925
or 1926 -- map from one side of Union Steamships Company brochure
promoting their route from Vancouver to Savary Island.
Brochure
by Union Steamships Company
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10.2a
1926
or later -- cover and inside material of Union Steamships Company
brochure promoting their Vancouver to Savary Island route
Brochure
by Union Steamships Company
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