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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 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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6.13.34
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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6.13.35
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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6.13.36
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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6.13.37
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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6.13.38
early
1920s -- Arthur Whitaker, a cousin of Sechelt entrepreneur Herbert
Whitaker, stands on the Sechelt wharf. He was at various times
a real estate agent, a councilor for the District of North Vancouver,
a Director of the Burrard Inlet Tunnel and Bridge Company and
promoter of a car ferry across Howe Sound as early as 1936.
Photograph
by Edric Clayton
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