Helen Dawe Collection
Series
6.11
Ships,
A-Chea
Ships,
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Ships, K-R
Ships,
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Ships,
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Series 6.11 -- Ships (1887-1977)
-- K-R, 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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6.11.55
1921-1924 -- Various photographs of the
Hudson's Bay Company motor vessel Lady Kindersley
specially built in Vancouver in 1921 for the western
Arctic trade. She was christened by Frances Gladys
O'Kelly wife of Thomas Patrick O'Kelly and they sailed
to the Arctic on the ship's maiden voyage. Patrick and
Gladys lived in Sechelt from1912 to about 1915 when he
was Herbert Whitaker's partner for a short time. In
1907 he had been a trader for the Hudson's Bay Company
in the north.
Photographer unknown
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6.11.56
1908-1909 -- The S.S. Kootenay, on the left,
beside Herbert Whitaker's float in Porpoise Bay was
bought by his Sechelt Steamship Company in 1908 and
used mainly in Sechelt Inlet. She was wrecked in
English Bay in 1909. The ship on the right, the S.S.
Babine was built for Cecil Whitaker in 1908 and sank
in Porpoise Bay in 1912.
Photographer unknown
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6.11.58
1904 -- A view of the Sechelt Indian village,
its school and church, with Herbert Whitaker's
passenger steamer the S.S. Newera anchored in Trail
Bay.
Photograph by Philip Timms, courtesy the
Vancouver City Archives
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6.11.60
circa 1913-1918 -- The Sechelt Steamship
Company vessel S.S. Resort moored at the Porpoise Bay
wharf in Sechelt Inlet. Herbert Whitaker owned the
ship from 1910 until 1920
Photograph by Charles Bradbury. Image 27750
courtesy Royal B.C. Museum, B.C. Archives. See also
oversize photograph 6.15.167
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6.11.61
Between 1910-1915 -- The S.S. Resort on the
left, owned by Herbert Whitaker's Sechelt Steamship
Company from 1910 to 1920, operated in Sechelt Inlet
first as a work boat and when converted to gasoline
propulsion became a pleasure craft. The launch Ada on
the right carries passengers to dances and picnics up
Sechelt Inlet.
Photograph courtesy Winnie Delong. See also
oversize photograph 6.15.166
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