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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


Series 6.11 -- Ships (1887-1977) -- S-Ta, 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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6.11.75

Date unknown - A B. C. ferry boat, the Sechelt Queen, sailed the local waters

Photograph by Mrs. Marcia Wheeler, courtesy the Peninsula Times newspaper and the Alsgard family


6.11.76

circa 1912 -- A double-ended rowboat with No 3 STC on the prow probably shows it belongs to Herbert Whitaker's Sechelt Trading Company which was the umbrella company for his various businesses from 1898 until the middle of WW1.

Photographer unknown


6.11.77

circa 1914 and later -- Photographs of the S.S. Selma in Trail Bay and at Sechelt wharf. The S.S. Selma, previously Santa Cecelia and later Chasina, was operated by the All Red Line until sold to the Union Steamship Company in 1917. She gave her name to Selma Park the All Red Line resort. In 1923 she was sold again to become a rum running boat and when the liquor trade slumped she vanished en route from Vancouver to Macao.

Photograph by Charles Bradbury


6.11.78

circa 1914 and later -- Photographs of the S.S. Selma in Trail Bay and at Sechelt wharf. The S.S. Selma, previously Santa Cecelia and later Chasina, was operated by the All Red Line until sold to the Union Steamship Company in 1917. She gave her name to Selma Park the All Red Line resort. In 1923 she was sold again to become a rum running boat and when the liquor trade slumped she vanished en route from Vancouver to Macao.

Photograph by Charles Bradbury


6.11.79

circa 1914 and later -- Photographs of the S.S. Selma in Trail Bay and at Sechelt wharf. The S.S. Selma, previously Santa Cecelia and later Chasina, was operated by the All Red Line until sold to the Union Steamship Company in 1917. She gave her name to Selma Park the All Red Line resort. In 1923 she was sold again to become a rum running boat and when the liquor trade slumped she vanished en route from Vancouver to Macao.

Photograph by Charles Bradbury. See also oversize photograph 6.15.171


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