Sechelt Community Archives -- Series 6.5, Buildings -- Shorncliffe Ave., Page 2

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 -- Shorncliffe Ave., Teredo St., 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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1935 -- Rockwood Lodge under construction

Situated on Block 5, of D.L. 1331 the lodge was built by Bill Youngson and Arthur Neal. After successfully operating the lodge from 1936 until 1946, Bill and Jessie Youngson moved into their cottage in the lodge grounds. They had come from Scotland to Sechelt in 1926 to act as caretaker and cook for the Fleck family of Opeongo Lodge.

Rockwood Lodge changed ownership six times between 1946 and 1980 until the Sechelt Chamber of Commerce purchased it and leased it to various businesses. In 1986 the District of Sechelt assumed the mortgage and still maintain the lodge and grounds for a variety of purposes. Since 1983 the Sechelt Festival of the Written Arts has held a very successful annual event.

This series of photographs documents the building of the house, now a heritage building.

Photographs by Jean Whittaker (nee Cook)

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1935 -- Rockwood Lodge under construction

Lumber for the construction of the lodge was supplied by Mr. Burley of B. C. Fir and Cedar, Vancouver. It was shipped to Sechelt on Union Steamship vessels 1935-1936.

The three men seated on the lumber are left to right: W.A. (Bill) Youngson, proprietor of the lodge, W.A. (Bill) Dawe of Georgia Engineering Works Ltd., Coal Harbour, Vancouver and Captain Sam Dawe, resident of Sechelt and later member of Sechelt's first Village Commission.

Photographer unknown (probably Jean Whittaker, nee Cook)

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1935 -- Rockwood Lodge cottage

This cottage was built by Bill Youngson below Rockwood Lodge prior to his constructing the lodge. It was sold separately from the lodge in 1946 but both buildings were united under one owner when Gerry Gibbons purchased the properties. (Doris W.) Billie Dawe and her cousin Alan Dawe stand on the bridge over the fish pond.

Photograph by Jean Whittaker (nee Cook)