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
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