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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 -- 1880s-1911, Page 1
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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6.13.1
mid
1880s -- Alfred (1848-1910) and Henrietta Whitaker (1848-1916)
and five of their nine children photographed in Bournemouth, England
before they came to Canada. The children are, l-r; Edith, who
remained in England, Herbert, Reginald on his mother's knee, Evelyn
and Ernest.
Copied
from original print, courtesy Rowena Haslett
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6.13.2
1897
-- Alfred and Henrietta Whitaker with seven of their nine children
photographed in Vancouver, Evelyn remained in England and young
Alfred died as a child. Back row l-r; Ernest, Herbert, Alfred,
Evelyn, Reginald Front row, l-r; Cecil, Henrietta, Muriel, Ronald
Photographer
unknown. See also oversize photograph 6.15.198
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6.13.3
1898
-- Herbert Whitaker's horses graze near the Sechelt marsh at Porpoise
Bay. L. Harry Roberts, founder of Roberts Creek, purchased one
of the horses.
Photographer
unknown
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