Sechelt Community Archives -- Series 6.14, Cook Family, 1912-1944, Page 6

Helen Dawe Collection

Series 6.14
   Cook Family, 18!!-1911
    Cook Family, 1889-1898
    Cook Family, 1900s-1920s
    Cook Family, 1912-1944
    Dawe Family, 19!!-1983
    Dawe Family, 1917-1983
    Dawe Family, 'Chicken Dinner,' 1913
    Steele, Whittaker Families, 1934-1983

Series 6.14 -- Cook, Dawe, Steele, Whittaker Families -- Cook Family, 1912-1944, Page 6

A pictorial record of Sechelt pioneers Thomas J. and Sarah Cook and their descendants the Dawe, Steele and Whittaker families in Vancouver, Bowen Island and Sechelt.

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6.14.125a

1936 -- Sechelt's first white settler, Thomas John Cook's daughter Jean stands outside St. Hilda's Church built on land donated by T.J. Cook in 1923.

Photograph by Ada Dawe. See also oversize photograph 6.15.191

6.14.126

1944 -- Sechelt's first white settler (1894) Thomas John Cook stands with grandson Mark Steele. Mark is the son of Billie Steele (nee Dawe), granddaughter of T.J.

Photographer unknown

6.4.127

1953 -- Male descendants of Sechelt's first white settler Thomas John Cook are l-r; Bruce Whittaker, son of T.J.'s daughter Jean (nee Cook), Mark Steele, son of T. J.'s granddaughter Billie Steele (nee Dawe) and Neil Whittaker Bruce's younger brother.

Photographer unknown

6.14.128

1980 -- Descendants of Sechelt's first white settler, Thomas John Cook, have tea in the newly opened tea room at Rockwood Lodge in Sechelt. They are (l-r): granddaughter Billie Steele, daughter Ada Dawe, granddaughter Helen Dawe and daughter Jean Whittaker.

Photograph courtesy The Press newspaper, the Richard Proctor family and the Coast News newspaper.

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