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.
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