6.4.45

c1904 -- Porpoise Bay, head of Sechelt Inlet

The first Porpoise Bay wharf, in the centre of the picture, was built by Herbert Whitaker 1903/1904. It ran parallel to the rock bluff on the west side of D.L. 304 and did not jut straight out into the bay. The building on the left on Whitaker's property, Yamamoto Boat Works, was used by Japanese fishermen to repair their boats and nets. About Easter 1913 to the end of 1914 the building was used as Sechelt's second school. At high tide the water came up below the floor of the school. Mr. W. H. Mills bought the structure for lumber sometime after 1915. This busy harbour shelters an Indian dug out, a steamer with funnel in shore on the right and seven boats with masts for sails etc. The Yamamoto Boat Works built in 1908 a boat with an engine for Sechelt band members Basil Joe and his brother Philip Joe.

Could this be a Philip Timms photograph taken when he came to photograph the opening of the first Indian School?

Photograph courtesy T. J. Cook. See also oversize 6.15.60