Helen
Dawe Collection
Series
6.13
Whitaker Family, 1880s-1911
Whitaker
Family, 1912-25
Whitaker
Family, 1940s-1966
Documents,
1875-1915
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Series
6.13 -- Whitaker Family and Documents -- 1880s-1911, Page 4
A
pictorial record of Alfred and Henrietta Whitaker and their nine children,
Edith, Herbert, Ernest, Evelyn, Reginald, Cecil, Muriel and Ronald (Alfred
junior died in infancy). A portrait taken in England in the mid 1880s
and photos in Vancouver and Sechelt of family, friends and employees
up to 1971 record this remarkable Sechelt family's life. Original Whitaker
business documents have also been photographed, also original survey
information by John Scales; all are oversize photographs.
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6.13.14
circa
1907-1911 -- Photographed outside one of the Whitaker's houses
in Sechelt, "Red Cottage" on Cowrie Street, are four of the Sisters
of the Instruction of the Child Jesus from the Sechelt Band Residential
School, l-r: Sister Gonzales, Mother Theresine, school principal,
unidentified Sister, Sister St. Oven. Lay females seated are:(l-r)
Evelyn Haslett, nee Whitaker and her sister Muriel. Countess Edith
Alvensleben stands on the step. She and Edith had met when the
Whitaker family lived in California (1900-1904).
Photographer
unknown See also oversize photograph 6.15.91
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6.13.15
1911
-- Herbert Whitaker and his three children: Jean Burns, Mae's
daughter by her first husband, Kenneth and baby Isobel in front
of their Sechelt home, Beach House, on the Boulevard.
Photographer
unknown
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6.13.16
1911
-- Herbert and Mae Whitaker and two of their children, Kenneth
and baby Isobel, in front of their Sechelt home, Beach House,
on the Boulevard.
Photographer
unknown
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6.13.17
1911
-- Mae Whitaker and her three children: Jean Burns, Mae's daughter
by her first husband, Kenneth and baby Isobel, in front of their
Sechelt home, Beach House, on the Boulevard.
Photographer
unknown
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6.13.18
1911
-- Herbert and Mae Whitaker and two of their children, Kenneth
and baby Isobel, in front of their Sechelt home, Beach House,
on the Boulevard.
Photographer
unknown
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