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