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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 5
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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6.13.39
1924-1935
-- The Whitaker family photographed on the front steps of their
Sechelt home "Beach House." Back row l-r; Herbert Whitaker (dark
suit), his sister Muriel Thompson and her husband the Rev. Norman
Thompson and his cousin Arthur Whitaker. Second row l-r; Edric
Clayton, cousin of the Whitakers, Herbert's daughter Isobel and
Arthur's mother Minnie. Front row l-r; Herbert's son Kenneth,
brother Reginald, Muriel's daughter Marjorie Thompson, Herbert's
brother Ronald and Reginald's wife Gertrude.
Photographer
unknown
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6.13.40
early
1920s -- Seated in the car are Ernest Whitaker and his son Ted.
Ernest, a brother of Sechelt entrepreneur Herbert Whitaker, ran
a raw fur business in Vancouver.
Photographer
unknown
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6.13.63
early
1920s -- Passengers arriving off and departing on the Union Steamship
Company's SS Chasina berthed at Sechelt wharf.
Photograph
by Edric Clayton
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6.13.64
1920s
-- Sechelt wharf.
Photograph
by Edric Clayton
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6.13.65
late
1920s -- Sechelt wharf with badminton court on the deck, Martha
Whitaker is standing on the left (with cane). Florrie Clayton
(wife of Edric) is on the far right.
Photograph
by Edric Clayton
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