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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)
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Series
6.5-- Identified buildings, streets, structures, Sechelt and District
-- Sechelt Inn, 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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6.5.67
Date
unknown -- `Sechelt Inn and Beach on the bracing Gulf Coast'
A
publicity card or brochure of Trail Bay beach and the Sechelt
Inn
Photographer
unknown
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6.5.68
c1950s
-- Beach House/Vue de L'eau/Sechelt Inn
Sechelt
Inn, once the home of the Whitaker family, was run by the Union
Steamship Company until 1952 when it was sold to Mrs. Florence
Duncan who operated it until a fire badly damaged the building
in 1963.
Photograph
by Edric Clayton
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6.5.69
Date
unknown -- Sechelt Inn
A
brochure advertising the Sechelt Inn and its rates
Photographer unknown
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6.5.70
1937
-- Sechelt Inn entrance
Entrance
to the Sechelt Inn, once the Whitaker family home until 1926 when
the Union Steamship Company purchased the estate of Herbert Whitaker.
Union Estates, a subsidiary of the USS Company ran the Inn until
selling it 1952 to Mrs. Florence Duncan. It was badly damaged
by fire in 1963. Today the Driftwood Inn stands on the site.
Photographer
unknown
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6.5.71
1937
-- Sechelt Inn sign and Bob Hackett
Bob
Hackett aged 17, on the left, was the son of Robert S. Hackett,
a prominent early settler in Sechelt. Robert S. Hackett was the
superintendent of the Union Steamship Company in Sechelt and also
the village's post master. Hackett Park in Sechelt is named after
him. The large sign could be seen from the water by Union Steamship
passengers.
Photographer
unknown
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