Sechelt Community Archives -- Series 6.5, Buildings -- Waterfront, first hotel, Page 3

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 -- Sechelt waterfront, first hotel, 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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1907-1914 -- Herbert Whitaker's first hotel situated on the Boulevard between present day Inlet Avenue and Wharf Road was built in 1899. A west wing was added around 1906. The man in the white shirt and dark vest walking with his head down is Thomas John Cook, the first white permanent settler in Sechelt.

Photographer unknown

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1913-1914 -- Sechelt's first hotel looking towards the Sechelt First Nation's Our Lady of Lourdes Church.

Photograph by Charles Bradbury, courtesy Norman Burley.

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1913 -- Sechelt's first hotel and two stores built by Herbert Whitaker photographed from the water.

Photograph by Charles Bradbury. Image F-9273 courtesy Royal B.C. Museum, B.C. Archives