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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
11-- Captain Sam and Ada Dawe, 1888-1986, Page 1
Captain
Sam Dawe was born in Bay Roberts, Newfoundland in 1888, moved with
his family to New Westminster in 1892 and to Vancouver in 1895. He
started work at age fourteen on a Skeena and Fraser Rivers cannery
tug and spent most of his working life at sea. He worked up and down
the B.C. coast on tugs, fishing boats and passenger and freight vessels.
He also sailed deep-sea on a number of well-known sailing vessels
and ocean liners such as the Empress of Asia. He was in the Canadian
Merchant Marine coastwise service and in World War II he piloted a
number of American ships up to Prince Rupert and Icy Straits. In 1957
and 1959 he served as master of the destroyer escorts HMCS Skeena
and Kootenay and on his retirement from the B.C. Pilots he moved permanently
to Sechelt with wife Ada. There he served on Sechelt's first elected
council from 1956 until 1964 and continued to be involved in many
endeavours in the village until his death in 1971. Ada Dawe (nee Cook)
and her mother and father, Sarah and Thomas John Cook, were the first
pioneer family to settle permanently in Sechelt. They arrived in 1894
to live in the first of their four homes on Trail Bay. Ada later worked
in Vancouver and married Captain Sam Dawe in 1913. They had two daughters,
Helen and Doris (Billie), who, with Ada, spent many holidays during
their childhood years with their grandfather in Sechelt and both of
whom eventually lived permanently in Sechelt. After Ada and Sam retired
to Sechelt she became involved in numerous activities including all
three centennial celebrations, the Sechelt Recreation Commission,
St. Hilda's Church, Senior Citizens Housing, St. Mary's Hospital Auxiliary,
May Day and Library committees. In 1967 she was awarded the Centennial
Medal "in recognition" of valuable service to the nation" and in 1977
the Sechelt and District Chamber of Commerce named her the good citizen
of the year. She died in 1986 in her ninety-third year after a long
life of dedication to the well-being of Sechelt's residents.
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11.1
date
unknown -- passenger steamer SS Tartar on which Sam Dawe was master
in 1912.
Photographer
unknown
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11.2
date
unknown -- Sam Dawe (right) with two of the crew of the SS Tartar.
Photographer
unknown
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11.3
date
unknown -- Sam Dawe.
Photographer
unknown
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