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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 -- 1912-1925, Page 2
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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6.13.24
circa
1912 -- Herbert and Mae Whitaker's children, Kenneth (left) and
Isobel, sit on the Trail Bay beach at Sechelt.
Photographer
unknown
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6.13.25
1913
-- A wagon load of young people in front of Herbert Whitaker's
second store, built in 1899, which was a school 1912-1913, and
a telegraph office 1913-1914. The group is off to a dance in Gibson's.
Standing l-r are Monty Johnson who died in WW1, Dick Manning,
wearing ladies hat, a pharmacist, Eric Carlson, Whitaker's teamster
and Ada Cook; seated are Hans Bordewick, Iris Brummett who later
Dick Manning and her sister.
Photographer
unknown
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6.13.26
circa
1914 -- Whitaker family members: front row l-r; unidentified,
Mrs. Evelyn Haslett (nee Whitaker), Kenneth, Herbert Whitaker's
son, and Evelyn's son Donald. Back row l-r; Jean Burns, Herbert
Whitaker's wife Mae's daughter, others unidentified.
Photographer
unknown
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6.13.27
circa
1913-1914 -- Isobel Gilbert (nee Whitaker) states the Whitakers
lived in two of the Selma Park cottages at this time until the
O'Kellys moved out of the Whitaker's Beach House home in Sechelt.
Her father Herbert may have managed the Selma Park cottages, store,
dance hall and wharf for the All Red Line Steamship Company which
owned them from 1911 until 1917 when the Union Steamship Line
bought the resort and ships.
Photographer
unknown
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6.13.28
1916
-- Ronald Whitaker, back row second from left, photographed with
friends on Trail Bay beach at Sechelt.
Photographer
unknown
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