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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


Series 6.13 -- Whitaker Family and Documents -- 1912-1925, Page 6

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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6.13.66

early 1920s -- Lady on the left could be Mrs. Florrie (Edric) Clayton with friends outside the second Sechelt Hotel prior to its new entrance on the west side.

Photograph by Edric Clayton.


6.13.67

circa 1928-1929 -- Edric and Florrie Clayton's daughters Phyllis (left) and Peggy sit on Trail Bay beach outside Herbert Whitaker's second store/post office/school/telegraph office.

Photograph by Edric Clayton


6.13.68

circa 1927-1929 -- Trail Bay beach with rental cottages on the left, totem pole and store in the centre and Our Lady of Lourdes church on the far right; children without hats sitting on the beach could be Phyllis and Peggy Clayton.

Photograph by Edric Clayton


6.13.69

circa 1928-1929 -- Phyllis and Peggy Clayton sit on Trail Bay beach outside the Union Steamship Company's general store.

Photograph by Edric Clayton.


6.13.70

1920s -- Mothers and children (unidentified) wait on the Sechelt wharf for the Union Steamship Company boat.

Photograph by Edric Clayton


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