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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 -- Shorncliffe Ave., Teredo St., Page 3

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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6.5.205

1937 -- Rockwood Lodge, built and operated by Bill and Jessie Youngson, in the summer of 1937 before the driveway was blacktopped.

Photograph courtesy Betty Ingram (nee Youngson)

 


6.5.206

late 1930s -- Rockwood Lodge was built and operated by Bill and Jessie Youngson. The small building to the left housed a number of canaries given to the Youngsons by Major Sutherland who lived in the house that later became the Wakefield Inn. Major Sutherland was Sechelt's first policeman.

Photograph #D44 by Helen McCall

 


6.5.207

late 1930s -- The garden and fish pond of Rockwood Lodge which was built and operated by Bill and Jessie Youngman.

Photograph #D46 by Helen McCall

 


6.5.208

late 1930s -- North end of Rockwood Lodge built and operated by Bill and Jessie Youngson.

Photograph #D49 by Helen McCall

 


6.5.209

late 1930s -- Rockwood Lodge was built and operated by Bill and Jessie Youngson.

Photographer unknown

 


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