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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 4
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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6.5.77
195?
-- 'Sechelt Inn, Sechelt, B. C.'
A
coloured postcard advertising the Sechelt Inn
Postcard
by Gower Sutton Co. of Vancouver, B. C.
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6.5.78
195?
-- 'Sechelt Inn, Sechelt, B. C.'
Black
and white postcard advertising the Sechelt Inn
Postcard
by Gower Sutton Co. of Vancouver, B. C.
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6.5.79
1952-1964
-- The Sechelt Inn
Coloured
postcard of the Sechelt Inn during Mrs. Florence Duncan's ownership.
Advertisement and rates are given on the reverse side.
Published
by Natural Color Productions Ltd., Vancouver, B. C.
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6.5.80
1964
-- The end of the Sechelt Inn
Firemen
burn down the previously damaged 62-year-old Sechelt Inn. Once
the home of pioneer settlers Alfred and Henrietta Whitaker from
1906 until 1926, the house was sold by the estate of son Herbert
Whitaker in 1926. The Union Steamship Company's subsidiary, Union
Estates, ran it as an Inn until selling it in 1952 when Mrs. Florence
Duncan continued to operate it as a hotel until badly damaged
by fire in 1963.
Photograph
courtesy The Peninsula Times newspaper and the Alsgard family
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6.5.81
1964
-- Second fire at the Sechelt Inn
Sechelt
firemen burn the Sechelt Inn, previously gutted by a 1963 fire.
Once the home of Alfred and Henrietta Whitaker it was sold by
son Herbert Whitaker's estate to the Union Steamship Company in
1926. It was run as an Inn by the subsidiary Union Estates Co.
until purchased by Mrs. Florence Duncan, who operated the Inn
for a further 11 years.
Photograph
courtesy Sechelt resident Harold Nelson
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Copyright
© The Sechelt Community Archives
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