Sechelt Community Archives -- Series 6.5, Buildings -- Stores, Page 1

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-- Stores, Post Offices, barn etc., Page 1

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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6.5.86

c1900-1904 -- The building on the left was Herbert Whitaker's first store and also Sechelt's first Post Office established March 1, 1896. The building on the right was a barn. A trail, which later became Wharf Road, ran between the two buildings to Porpoise Bay.

Photograph probably by Philip Timms

6.5.87

1904 -- The building on the left was Herbert Whitaker's first store and also Sechelt's first Post Office, established March 1, 1896. The building on the right was a barn. A trail, which later became Wharf Road, ran between the two buildings to Porpoise Bay.

Photograph by Philip Timms

6.5.88

1904 -- Herbert Whitaker's first store and Sechelt's first Post Office, established March 1, 1896. Left to right: Frank Strachan, Jack Vickers, unknown, Pete Levesque. A trail, later Wharf Road, ran between the two buildings to Porpoise Bay.

Photograph by Philip Timms

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