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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

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c1914 -- West Porpoise Bay

Point on the west shore of Porpoise Bay near one of the Sechelt Band's reserves. Camp or farm on the shoreline could be Konishi's farm.

A copy of the original postcard. Photograph #?57 by Charles Bradbury

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1914 -- Porpoise Bay and Poise Island

Photograph by Leighton P. Harrison

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1913-1918 -- Porpoise Bay wharf Herbert Whitaker's vessel `Resort' and other smaller boats alongside his wharf. Parson's logging wharf is in the upper left on the west shore of the bay with Jiro Konishi's farm to its right. Archives lack date but suggest 1913 or 1914 because of clothing and photographer/telegraph operator Charles Bradbury lived in Sechelt 1913 to1914.

Photograph by Charles Bradbury. Image B-447 courtesy Royal B.C. Museum, B.C. Archives

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1917-1918 -- Porpoise Bay, footbridge and second school

Building at west end of the footbridge was once a shed used by Japanese fishermen to mend their boats and nets. From 1913 to 1914 it was Sechelt's second school. The footbridge was built in 1913 by B. C. Public Works department. Jiro Konishi's farm is along the western shore in the upper left of photograph. The logs along the shoreline may have drifted there from the "Pollock and Ross Timber Camp" operated by Arthur Pollock and William E. Ross. Poise Island is in the upper right.

Photograph by Gladys Tidy (later Mrs. W. Caldwell) a teacher in Sechelt from January 1917 to June 1918.