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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 3
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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6.13.29
circa
1912-1916 -- Evelyn Haslett, nee Whitaker, (top left) with her
mother Mae on her right and several of Mae's grand children photographed
at the Whitaker family home "Arcadia" in North Vancouver.
Photographer
unknown
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6.13.30
1914-1918
-- Lieut. Ronald Whitaker, 1890-1971, brother of Herbert, photographed
during WW1. He came to Sechelt in 1894 and worked with Herbert.
He also sold real estate in North Vancouver prior to WW1. After
the war he operated a mill at Porpoise Bay in Sechelt Inlet, held
a seat on the Vancouver stock exchange with brother-in-law Jack
Haslett and managed the second Sechelt hotel with George Aman.
In 1939 he acquired property in Davis Bay where he built the "Trading
Post" store, a motel and houses.
Photographer
unknown
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6.13.31
1914-1918
-- Lieut. Ronald Whitaker, 1890-1971, brother of Herbert, photographed
during WW1. He came to Sechelt in 1894 and worked with Herbert.
He also sold real estate in North Vancouver prior to WW1. After
the war he operated a mill at Porpoise Bay in Sechelt Inlet, held
a seat on the Vancouver stock exchange with brother-in-law Jack
Haslett and managed the second Sechelt hotel with George Aman.
In 1939 he acquired property in Davis Bay where he built the "Trading
Post" store, a motel and houses.
Photographer
unknown
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6.13.32
circa
1919 -- Edric Clayton beside his cousin Herbert Whitaker's model
T truck, perhaps the first vehicle in Sechelt.
Photograph
courtesy Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives
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6.13.33
circa
1921 -- Whitaker's Beach, named after Arthur Whitaker a cousin
of Sechelt entrepreneur Herbert Whitaker. Arthur and Herbert's
brother Ron were partners in the Real Estate Company Whitaker
and Whitaker which promoted land in North and West Vancouver and
on the Sunshine Coast. The beach was later named Byng Bay. Arthur
was at various times a councilor of the District of North Vancouver,
a Notary Public, a Director of Burrard Inlet Tunnel and Bridge
Company and promoter of a car ferry across Howe Sound as early
as 1936.
Photographer
unknown
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