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Helen
Dawe Collection
Series
6.3
1901-1915
1916-1927
1920s,
1930s
1930s-1980s
1980s&
Wharf
1904-1982
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Series
6.3, General, Panoramic Views (1916-1927) (Page 2)
The
photographs in the series show Sechelt's beach, waterfront area, wharf
and buldings from 1900 to 1983 both from land and water. The area
covered stretches from the rocky area to the west of the gravel beach
to the Selma Park waterfront. The photographers include Charles Bradbury,
Edric S. Clayton, Alan Gibbons, Helen McCall, Philip Timms, Harry
Winn and the Sechelt Peninsula Times photographer. Some photographs
are Union Steamship Company pictures. Many of the photographs are
copies from originals in the Vancouver City Archives, Provinicial
Archives and the Vancouver Public Library Collection.
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6.3.13a
1919-1921
-- Trail Bay and Trail Islands
Note
the flag pole on the Boulevard and the natural state of the beach
with drift logs protecting the beach.
Photograph
by Florence Cliff, school teacher at Sechelt 1919-1921
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6.3.14
c1915-1916
-- Buildings along the Boulevard
Left to right: Rock Cottage, Green Cottage (still standing), the
Whitaker family's Beach House, cottage #3, cottage #2, cottage
#1. All constructed for Herbert Whitaker.
Photograph
by Charles Bradbury. Image A-7129 courtesy of Royal B.C. Museum,
B.C. Archives See also oversize 6.15.16
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6.3.15
early-mid
1920s -- Dance Pavilion, Red Cottage/Whitaker House (demolished
in 1980), 1899 store adjoining 1915 General Store (both demolished
in mid 1960s), wharf before Union Steamship Company renovated
it in 1926.
Herbert
Whitaker's first truck is in front of the General Store. Dance
pavilion was built in 1920 by Herbert Whitaker, totem poles were
erected in front of it in 1929 by the Union Steamship Company.
Photograph
by Charles Bradbury. Image A-7128 courtesy of Royal B.C. Museum,
B.C. Archives See also oversize 6.15.17
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6.3.16
c1920s
-- Trail Bay near Sechelt Wharf in a Storm
`This
sort of wave action on Trail Bay is an annual event and destroyed
three boat launching ramps within the village.' Helen Dawe's notes.
Photograph
by Edric Clayton
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6.3.17
c1920s
-- Burley's Rocks west end of Trail Bay
Roof
of Rock Cottage on left, Beach House (later Sechelt Inn) on right
(a) Sechelt wharf on right (b) Photograph by Edric Clayton
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© The Sechelt Community Archives
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