Sechelt Community Archives -- eries 6.14, Dawe Family, 19!!-1983, Page 5

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 -- Dawe Family, 19!!-1983, Page 5

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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6.14.158

1917 -- Sam Dawe on the right worked aboard the tug 'Active' for two months

Photographer unknown

6.14.159

1921 -- Sam Dawe, on the right, was an extra second officer aboard the Canadian Pacific vessel Empress of Asia.

Photographer unknown

6.14.160

circa 1923 -- Sam Dawe was second officer on the vessel 'Canadian Observer'

Photographer unknown

6.14.161

early 1930s -- Captain Sam Dawe purchased this house, 3825 West 36th Avenue, Vancouver, in 1929 and sold it in 1952, probably when he moved to Sechelt.

Photographer unknown

6.14.163

circa 1940 -- Captain Sam Dawe photographed when he was a B.C. Coast Pilot. He was born in Bay Roberts, Newfoundland in 1888 and came with his parents to New Westminster in 1892. He served on a number of ocean going vessels and obtained his Master Mariner (Coastal) Certificate in 1911. After moving to Sechelt he served on Sechelt's first Board of Comissioners in 1956 and was a councilor for eight years.

Photograph by "Artona"

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