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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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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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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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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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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