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Helen Dawe Collection

Series 6.5
   Bridges, surveyor's posts (1875-?)

    Cottages (1900-1970s)
    Sechelt waterfront, first hotel (1900-1914)
    Sechelt first hotel fire (1900-1914)
    Sechelt second hotel (1910-1930s)
    Sechelt Inn (1906-1973)
    Stores, Post Offices, barn etc. (1896-1973)
    Modern buildings (1973-1982)
    Sechelt Library, Municipal halls (1960s-1970s)

   St. Hilda's Anglican Church (1930s-1970s)
    St. Mary's Hospital (various)
    Sechelt streets (1900s-1980s)
    Shorncliffe Ave, Teredo Street (1935-1983)
    Wakefield Inn, West Sechelt (1981-1982)

    Wharf Road (1906-1979)


Series 6.5-- Identified buildings, streets, structures, Sechelt and District -- Bridges, etc. Page 2

Photographs are of bridges, cottages, hotels, stores and private houses in Sechelt and District, many being identified buildings on Sechelt's waterfront. Excellent photos of Sechelt's first hotel, and the 1914 fire which destroyed it, Sechelt's second hotel and general store and wharf. Photographs also of Sechelt Inn, originally Whitaker's house (Vue de L'Eau or the Beach House), which burned in 1964, St. Hilda's Anglican Church, and St. Mary's Hospital (in Garden Bay); views of Sechelt's streets: the Boulevard, Cowrie Street, Inlet Avenue, Shorncliffe Avenue, and Rockwood Lodge and cottage, Wharf Street and Wakefield Inn in West Sechelt. Also in this Sub-Series are photographs of Whitaker's house at Selma Park, the Bank of Montreal at Madeira Park, Deadman's Island and the CPR station in Vancouver. Photographers include Charles Bradbury, Edric S. Clayton. Some photographs are copies from Vancouver City Archives, Provincial Archives and Vancouver Public Library Collection.

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6.5.4

1938 -- Wakefield Creek Bridge

Photograph donated and dated by Mary (Mrs. Alex) Gray who came to live in the Wakefield Creek area in 1936.


6.5.5

1942 -- 'The Lady Cecilia' in Trail Bay approaching Sechelt's wharf

The Union Steamship Company vessel is seen from the shore in front of the company's bath house en route to Vancouver.

Photographer may be Robert Hackett


6.5.6

1960s,1970s -- Sechelt's Cenotaph and Remembrance Day Service.

This original Cenotaph is now located in front of the Royal Canadian Legion on Wharf Avenue.

Photograph courtesy The Peninsula Times newspaper and the Alsgard family


6.5.7

Date unknown -- Church of His Presence on Redrooffs Road in Halfmoon Bay

Postcard of Canon Greene's little church built in 1962 as a Wayside shrine for all to use in 1962. It is a memorial to all the British Columbia Coastal Folk served by the Columbia Coast Mission (Anglican) since 1905. It was dedicated in 1962 by the Right Rev. Godfrey Gower, Bishop of the Diocese of New Westminster at the time.

Photographers unknown


6.5.9

Date unknown -- Church of His Presence on Redrooffs Road in Halfmoon Bay

Postcard of Canon Greene's little church built in 1962 as a Wayside shrine for all to use in 1962. It is a memorial to all the British Columbia Coastal Folk served by the Columbia Coast Mission (Anglican) since 1905. It was dedicated in 1962 by the Right Rev. Godfrey Gower, Bishop of the Diocese of New Westminster at the time.

Photographers unknown

 


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