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6.3.8
1907-1919
-- Panorama of buildings on Trail Bay including Green Cottage, Beach House,
store, hotel, Indian homes, first Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church
with band stand in front. S.S. Comox at Sechelt wharf indicates a date
of 1919 or earlier but after 1907 when church was dedicated. S.S. Comox
lies at Sechelt wharf and sailed under Union SS Company between 1891 and
1919. Postcard belonged to Tom Pinder and Christmas Card copy was donated
by Dolly Jonas (nee Cannon) of Qualicum Beach (in 1974). She had a hairdressing
business in Selma Park and is the daughter of Thomas Cannon, shoemaker,
in Sechelt Directory 1937-1939, and wife Annie Cannon. The card was given
to Dolly by Fred Frewin (Sechelt Directory 1937-1945 she thought.
Photograph
#181 by Charles Bradbury, who was Sechelt's first telegraph operator,
1913-1914.
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