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.