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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 5

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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6.5.215

early 1940s -- Jessie and Bill Youngson on the fish pond bridge at Rockwood Lodge. Left centre is their cottage and in the centre is Sechelt school before the 1920 Nor-West Bay Road school is moved to Sechelt.

Photographer unknown

 


6.5.216

early 1940s -- Rockwood Lodge, gardens and unidentified people.

Original was a post card sent to Betty Youngson, daughter of builders and owners Bill and Jessie Youngson, at Tranquille t.b. sanatorium.

Photograph #3 by H.H. Winn of Gibsons

 


6.5.217

circa 1947/1948 -- This photograph, 'Tyee Tent Cabin' at Rockwood Lodge, was used in an advertising brochure issued by Ted and Mary Rayner. Six rental cabins had been built by previous owner W. Morrison.

Photographer unknown

 


6.5.218

circa 1940 -- Rockwood Lodge with owner Jessie Youngson on the steps

Photographer unknown

 


6.5.219

1958 -- Builders and first owners of Rockwood Lodge, Bill and Jessie Youngson, outside their home, Rockwood Cottage.

Photograph courtesy Betty Ingram (Youngson)

 


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