6.3.28

late 1920s or early 1930s -- USS cottages on Wharf Road

Six rental cottages built by the USS Company in Herbert Whitaker's orchard. Badminton courts are in foreground alongside Wharf Road, which cuts across photograph. Fence in lower left enclosed picnic grounds where Peninsula Holdings Ltd. later built quarters for Bank of Montreal. Sechelt First Nations Reserve in background with Our Lady of Lourdes Church (1907-1970).

Photograph courtesy Vancouver City Archives See also oversize 6.15.19