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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
-- First hotel fire, 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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6.5.39
1914
--Another view of the beach with the rescued furniture.
Charles
Bradbury, Sechelt's first telegraph operator, took this, the fouth
in a series of photographs of the fire that destroyed Sechelt's
first hotel on June 1, 1914. Herbert Whitaker had sold his hotel
and other properties in 1913 to the Canadian-European (German)
Investment Corporation Ltd. but later regained possession of them
due to the 1914-1918 war.
Photograph
by Charles Bradbury
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6.5.40
1914
-- Furniture etc. being stacked beside Herbert Whitaker's second
store/first school/first telegraph office, built in 1899.
Charles
Bradbury, Sechelt's first telegraph operator, took this, the fifth
in a series of photographs of the fire that destroyed Sechelt's
first hotel on June 1, 1914. Herbert Whitaker had sold his hotel
and other properties in 1913 to the Canadian-European (German)
Investment Corporation Ltd. but later regained possession of them
due to the 1914-1918 war.
Photograph
by Charles Bradbury
See
oversize photograph 6.15.30
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6.5.41
1914
-- Fire viewed from east and north.
Charles
Bradbury, Sechelt's first telegraph operator, took this, the sixth
in a series of photographs of the fire that destroyed Sechelt's
first hotel on June 1, 1914. Herbert Whitaker had sold his hotel
and other properties in 1913 to the Canadian-European (German)
Investment Corporation Ltd. but later regained possession of them
due to the 1914-1918 war.
Photograph
by Charles Bradbury
See
oversize photograph 6.15.31
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6.5.42
1914
-- The fire has consumed almost all the hotel building.
Charles
Bradbury, Sechelt's first telegraph operator, took this, the last
in a series of photographs of the fire that destroyed Sechelt's
first hotel on June 1, 1914. Herbert Whitaker had sold his hotel
and other properties in 1913 to the Canadian-European (German)
Investment Corporation Ltd. but later regained possession of them
due to the 1914-1918 war.
Photograph
by Charles Bradbury
See
oversize photograph 6.15.31
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6.5.43
1914
-- Photographed in the morning prior to the fire. Note scaffolding
on the addition being built east and to the right rear of the
hotel.
Leighton P. Harrison, a guest at Sechelt's first hotel, took this,
the first in a series of photographs of the fire that destroyed
the hotel building on June 1, 1914. Herbert Whitaker had sold
his hotel and other properties in 1913 to the Canadian-European
(German) Investment Corporation Ltd. but later regained possession
of them after the 1914-1918 war.
Photograph
by Leighton P. Harrison
See
oversize 6.15.29
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