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Helen Dawe Collection

Series 6.3
  
1901-1915
    1916-1927
    1920s, 1930s
    1930s-1980s
    1980s&
    Wharf 1904-1982


Series 6.3-- General, Panoramic Views of Sechelt's Waterfront and Wharf (1930s-1980s) 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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6.3.34

c1920s/1930s -- Trail Bay beach and `The Boulevard'

Men beside cottage may be felling tree. Beach in natural state before 1970s rock fill.

Photograph by Edric Clayton

 


6.3.35

196? -- Sechelt Waterfront

A view looking east along Trail Bay beach. Left to right: Norman Burley's cottage, Green Cottage, Wharf, Our Lady of Lourdes Church.

Photograph courtesy The Peninsula Times newspaper and the Alsgard family


6.3.36

196? -- Trail Bay and Sechelt First Nation's Reserve

Coloured postcard of Trail Bay. Note Art James's boat ramp on beach, St. Augustine Residential School, Our Lady of Lourdes Church and gravel pit.

Photographs/postcard by Alan W. Gibbons.


6.3.37

196? -- Trail Bay, wharf and Reserve from Selma Park

Coloured postcard of Trail Bay.

Photographs/postcard by Alan W, Gibbons.


6.3.38

1976 -- Sechelt Beach

Protection against erosion on the beach; large boulders placed along the waterfront.

Photograph courtesy The Peninsula Times newspaper and the Alsgard family


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