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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 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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6.5.44
1914
-- Flames leap from the roof of the Sechelt hotel and rescued
furniture is scattered on the beach
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
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6.5.45
1914
-- Sechelt residents and hotel guests assist in the rescue of
furnishings.
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
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6.5.46
1914
-- Note Sechelt residents and/or guests on the upper balcony dropping
furnishings to the ground.
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
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6.5.47
1914
-- Furnishings and stove rescued from the Sechelt hotel fire.
Jack Wood faces woman who may be Edie Morgan.
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
also oversize photograph 6.15.34
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6.5.48
1914
-- The fire at the Sechelt hotel almost burned out.
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
also oversize photograph 6.15.35
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