6.4.56

c191? -- Footbridge across Porpoise Bay marsh built in 1913/1914.

The B.C. Public Works Report for fiscal year 1913/1914 states: "One bridge; Porpoise Bay and Sechelt _ mile from Sechelt: 375 feet long. Cost $166.95." Mr. Franklin Percival McQuarrie was road foremen at the time and in 1915 he built a home in West Porpoise Bay later known as `Tranquil Tara' (home there in 2007 still thus named). Japanese fishermen's and temporary (1913-1914) second school building and third school building on right of bridge do not appear in this photograph. Wagon road on inshore side of the footbridge became covered with water at high tide.

Photographer unknown. Photographs courtesy Dr. Hobson. See also oversize 6.15.64