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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
-- Stores, Post Offices, barn etc., 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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6.5.89
1906
-- Left to right: Sechelt's:
1. First hotel built by Herbert Whitaker in 1899.
2.
His second store and Post Office, also built in 1899, became Sechelt's
first school in 1912 and first telegraph office in 1913.
3.
Herbert Whitaker's first store and Post Office, established March
1, 1896
4.
Herbert Whitaker's barn built on the east side of a trail to Porpoise
Bay; it later became Wharf Road.
5.
Herbert Whitaker's third store and Post Office, built in 1906,
with two floors above used as an annex to the hotel. The whole
building became a hotel after the first burned down in 1914.
Photograph
by Fricke and Schenk
See
also oversize photograph 6.15.40
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6.5.90
pre
1914 -- Left to right: Herbert Whitaker's first hotel, built in
1899, burned down in 1914, his second store with the door now
on the east side of the building (see photograph 6.5.88).
Children with ice cream cones are not identified.
Photographer
unknown
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6.5.91
1905-1906
-- Herbert Whitaker's third store with hotel annex on two upper
floors was located on the east side of Wharf Road. When his first
hotel burned down in 1914 this store was converted into his second
hotel which, in turn, burned down in 1936.
Photograph
courtesy the Robert Hackett family
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6.5.92
1910
-- Herbert Whitaker's buildings on the Boulevard and Wharf Road.
Left
to right:
1 Pump house with windmill on top
2
Unidentified farm buildings
3
"Brackenwood Cottage" with washing hanging on line. Home of Charles
and Dorothy Bradbury (he was first the telegraph operator in Sechelt
1913-1914)
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Barn built in 1906 with three vents on roof
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Herbert Whitaker's third store, Post Office and hotel annex on
top two floors
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Boat house on beach
Photograph
probably by Charles Bradbury
See
also oversize photograph 6.5.54
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6.5.93
1911
--"Waiting for the Mail"
Outside
Herbert Whitaker's third store and Post Office, note sign above
the door. Lady on the horse was Jessie Irene `Rena' Nickson who
married Major T.D. Sutherland, Sechelt's first law enforcement
officer and original owner of the Wakefield Inn. Gerald Paddon,
who is seated on the porch, was the brother of Arthur F. Paddon,
husband of Edith H.C. Nickson .
Photographer
unknown
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