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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 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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6.5.94
circa
1913-1914 -- The interior of one of Herbert Whitaker's stores,
probably the third store.
Photographer
unknown
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6.5.95
c1912
-- Intersection of the Boulevard and Wharf Road on Trail Bay.
First Nations' `Our Lady of Lourdes' church in the background.
Herbert Whitaker's third store and Post Office built in 1906 its
two top floors were an annex to his first hotel which burned down
in 1914. The store was then converted into his second hotel.
Photographer
unknown
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6.5.96
circa
1912-1914 -- Herbert Whitaker's third `General Store' and Post
Office located on the east side of Trail Avenue on the Boulevard.
Built in 1906 its main floor housed the book keeping office of
H.J. Haslett, Herbert's brother-in-law. The two upper floors were
the annex to his first hotel which burned down in 1914. The sore
was then converted into his second hotel. `Our Lady of Lourdes'
is in the background on the Sechelt First Nations land.
Photographer
unknown
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6.5.97
1916
-- Ronald F. Whitaker (1890-1971) before he went overseas on Trail
Bay beach in front of brother Herbert Whitaker's second, fourth
and third stores (left to right). This is the first dated photograph
of the fourth store built after Herbert regained his holdings
from the Canadian-European Investment Corporation Ltd. (a German
Company) in 1915.
Photographer
unknown
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6.5.98
circa
1915-1920 -- Herbert Whitaker's second, fourth and third stores,
latter converted to his second hotel after the first hotel burned
down in 1914.
Photograph
by Charles Bradbury. Image F-9272 courtesy Royal B.C. Museum,
B.C. Archives.
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Copyright
© The Sechelt Community Archives
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