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Helen
Dawe Collection
Series
6.11
Ships, A-Chea
Ships,
Che-I
Ships,
K-R
Ships,
S-Ta
Ships,
Te-Y
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Series
6.11 -- Ships (1887-1977) -- A-Chea, Page 2
Most
photographs are of Union Steamship vessels, which operated between Vancouver,
Sechelt and Powell River. Some are of other steamship lines' vessels
or are of privately owned ships with connections to Sechelt.
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6.11.5
circa
1910 The S. S. Babine, owned by Cecil A. Whitaker, operated on
Sechelt Inlet between 1908 and 1912 when it burned and sank at
Porpoise Bay.
Photograph
from a postcard courtesy the Whitaker family. See also oversize
photograph 6.15.159
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6.11.6
Date
unknown -- The M.V. Bainbridge off Gibsons.
Photograph
by H. H. Winn
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6.11.7
circa
1910 -- The S.S. Belcarra (ex Unican), seen here off Hopkins Landing
, was bought by the Sechelt Steamship Company (Herbert Whitaker)
in January 1910 from the Terminal Steam Navigation Company Ltd..
She sank in the Agamemnon Channel in September 1910.
Photographs
from the L.R. Peterson Collection, courtesy the Sunshine Coast
Museum and Archives
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6.11.8
circa
1910 -- The S.S. Belcarra (ex Unican), seen here at the Sechelt
wharf , was bought by the Sechelt Steamship Company (Herbert Whitaker)
in January 1910 from the Terminal Steam Navigation Company Ltd..
She sank in the Agamemnon Channel in September 1910.
Photograph
from the L.R. Peterson Collection, courtesy the Sunshine Coast
Museum and Archives
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6.11.9
Date
unknown -- The S.S. Camosun 1 was built in Scotland in 1905 and
brought to Vancouver for the northern run up the British Columbia
coast to the fish canneries. She took Sechelt Band members up
to Rivers Inlet to fish and work in the canneries. She was the
first steamer on the B.C. coast to have wireless installed. In
1936 she was retired and reduced to scrap.
Photograph
courtesy Jean Whittaker
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