6.3.51

1904 -- Wharf, Trail Bay Beach and S. S. Newera

First known photograph of Sechelt wharf, S.S. Newera in the bay.

Buildings left to right; Herbert Whitaker's first hotel, 1899-1914, prior to addition; second store with two storeys (was also first school and telegraph office); first post office (also first store); boat house near approach to wharf which had been built prior to 1904. Our Lady of the Rosary Church, 1890-1906, on the Sechelt Indian Band reserve and cemetery, dedicated in 1873.

Photographer Philip T. Timms wrote on the original print: `This shore-line is made up of a glacial moraine. As the glacier melted back into Porpoise Bay the residue was left -some years ago I was walking past the hotel and noticed a fir tree (perhaps 2-3 hundred years old) growing on the gravelly beach - how long since the glaciers were there is difficult to say'. Philip Timms 1904. He was in Sechelt to photograph the opening of the Indian school, June 29, 1904.

Photograph by Philip T. Timms courtesy Whitaker family and Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives. See also oversize photograph 6.15.99

6.3.52

1912 -- A Union Steamship vessel docked at Sechelt wharf.

Note donkey engine, to drive piles, gangway and Richmond Dairy (R. D.) ice cream containers on dock. Man in braces on right holds a freight moving cart. People on the wharf are grouped round the railings protecting the freight chute on west side of wharf. Boxes of groceries etc. were slid into and out of the vessel's hold via this chute, later there was a chute on the east side of the wharf.

Photographer unknown. Image 527 courtesy Royal B.C. Museum, B.C.

6.3.53

1912 -- Herbert Whitaker's wharf in front of Whitaker Family's Beach House.

Rental cottage left of wharf, corner of Whitaker's Beach House on right. Herbert and Mae Whitaker's children on the beach are Kenneth (1909-1954) and Isobel (Mrs. Del Gilbert) 1910-1976.

Photograph courtesy the Whitaker family. See also oversize photograph 6.15.101