6.4.47

c1911 -- Porpoise Bay at low tide The head of Porpoise Bay at low tide. The shacks on the east side are probably Indian summer fishing camps.

Photographer unknown

6.4.48

c1912 -- The original Porpoise Bay wharf

Built by Herbert Whitaker in 1903/1904 on D.L.304 it ran parallel to the rock bluff and did not jut out into the bay. This wharf is mentioned in a Vancouver newspaper in 1904, Ron Whitaker (Herbert's brother) said it was built around 1902/1903. It collapsed in July 1915 and was rebuilt by Herbert in 1916 after he regained his properties. He had them sold, in 1913, to the Canadian-European Investment Corporation in December 1913. The original wharf continued to exist in a dilapidated condition even after the government wharf at Porpoise Bay was constructed in 1923/1924. The approaches to the two wharves were close together where the West Porpoise Bay Road turned sharply uphill to become Anchor Road. Joe Gregson tied his tug `Reliance' up to this dock when he worked for Sam Gray from 1907 to 1910, at low tide it stuck in the mud

Photographer unknown. See also 6.15.62.

6.4.49

1913 -- Porpoise Bay ball game

`Home Run' during a scrub ball game at Porpoise Bay. The area is just inshore from Herbert Whitaker's original Porpoise Bay wharf and also the government wharf, built 1923/1924. In later years Ted Osborne senior built a large shed to house vehicles at about the same site as this playground. The area is just west of the marsh and wildfowl refuge. Left to right: Holding tennis racquet Myrtle Dawe (married Sidney Guitard and also Norman Cook), sister of Sam Dawe, Hans Bordewick sliding into home plate, Dick Manning, back catcher, facing camera, Miss ? Brummitt, Miss Iris Brummitt, Miss Kjelsberg.

Photographer unknown

6.4.50

1913 -- Porpoise Bay Five young people seated on a log just inshore from Herbert Whitaker's original wharf. Ted Osborne later built a large shed to house vehicles on this site west of the Sechelt marsh and wild fowl refuge. Left to right: Miss Kjelsberg, Miss Brodewick (sister of Hans, see photograph 6.4.49), Monty Johnson, pharmacist at Jayne's Drugstore at the foot of Victoria Drive, Vancouver, (he was shell-shocked and died in WW1), Iris Brummitt and Ethel Manning.

Photographer unknown

6.4.51

c1910-1913 -- Porpoise Bay with Sechelt's second school building.

When the Sechelt pupils had to leave their school house on Trail Bay in 1913 they moved into this disreputable old building until T. J. Cook put up a proper school across the bog at the end of 1914. At high tide the water came up under the building which was used by Japanese fishermen to mend their boats and nets.

A postcard was donated by Norman Burley to Helen Dawe, another version is in the Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives. Photograph # 155 by Charles Bradbury.