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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 -- 1940s-1966, 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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6.13.49
1948
-- Kenneth Whitaker aboard the "Gulf Wing" ferry
Photographer
unknown, photo courtesy Robert Hackett
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6.13.50
1951
-- Geoffrey Gilbert, grand-son of Sechelt pioneer entrepreneur
Herbert Whitaker, is seated (left) with Mrs. Billie Steele (nee
Dawe), daughter Julie and son Mark.
Photographer
unknown
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6.13.51
1951
-- Geoffrey Gilbert and baby Julie Steele photographed on Sechelt
beach. He is the grand-son of Sechelt pioneer entrepreneur Herbert
Whitaker.
Photographer
unknown
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6.13.52
1967
-- The original store, "The Old Trading Post," was built by Ronald
Whitaker, brother of pioneer entrepreneur Herbert Whitaker, in
1940 and expanded by Vic Franske in 1950 to this motel. At present
a two-storey building of stores, offices and apartments occupies
this spot in Davis Bay.
Photograph
courtesy the Peninsula Times newspaper and the Alsgard family
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6.13.71
1940s
-- The Forestry boat "Douglas Fir" tied up to the float at the
end of the government dock in Porpoise Bay with John (or Dick)
Clayton seated on the left and hist sister Phyllis on the right.
Photograph
by Edric Clayton
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Copyright
© The Sechelt Community Archives
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