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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 Library, Municipal Halls, 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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6.5.126
1972
-- Premier
W.A.C. Bennett and Mrs. Alice French, who ran Sechelt's first
lending library, planting an ornamental cedar tree outside Sechelt's
Centennial Library.
Photograph
courtesy The Peninsula Times newspaper and Alsgard family
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6.5.127
1972
-- Sechelt
Centennial Library improvements celebrations. Left to right: Mr.
Laurie Wallace, Mrs. W.A.C. Bennett, Mrs. Isobel Dawson, MLA,
Premier W.A.C. Bennett, Mayor Ben Lang, Mrs. Louise Lang,?
Photograph
courtesy The Peninsula Times newspaper and the Alsgard family
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6.5.128
1956 -- Sechelt's first Municipal Hall
This
early 00th-century building sebved iany purpkses before becoming
Sechelt's first Municipal Hall.
It
began as accommodation for transient workers Ð hence the nickname
'Flea Pit' and was located behind Sechelt's second hotel ol the
east side of the wharf. Later it was spruced u` and used as a
home for the hotel's Chinese cooks and, in the 1930s, for its
women staff. After the hotel burned down in 1936 it was moved
to face Wharf Avenue at the Boulevard junction where it served
as Sechelt's telephone and telegraph office. When the telephone
office moved in 1948 the Bank of Montreal took it over until 1955
when it moved to Cowrie Street. The land the empty building stood
on was owndd by an oil company and for the cost of moving the
building the Sechelt Council could have it for a municipal hall
(which it was until q966) when a new (all waq built. The building
ze="1">The
buildings in the background are, from left to right, two B.C.
Government Forestry Buildings on the north-east corner and the
Home gas station on the south-east corner of Wharf Avenue and
Dolphin Street. To the right of the moving building is the former
'Forestry Cottage' occupied by forest rangers and later by Mr.
and Mrs. Newcombe.
Photograph
probably by a local newspaper photographer
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6.5.129
1958
-- Sechelt Municipal Hall -- Opening Ceremonies
Julie
Steele, granddaughter of T. J. Cook, first permanent European
settler in Sechelt, cuts the ribbon with Magistrate Andy Johnston,
husband of Christine, chairperson of Village Commission and first
Mayor of Sechelt.
Photograph
by Ben Lang. See also story in Coast News, November 29, 1956
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6.5.130
1958
-- Sechelt Municipal Hall --Opening Ceremonies
Mrs.
Christine Johnston with Ralph Johnson Village Clerk.
Photograph
by Ben Lang. See also story in Coast News, November 29, 1956
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