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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 4
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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6.5.99
late
1920s -- Intersection of the Boulevard and Wharf Road. General
Store and Post Office with hotel annex on the first floor was
erected in 1915 by Herbert Whitaker. Water tower on Cowrie Street
and Wharf Road. George Wood, telegraph agent and operator 1920-1938
in the foreground. `Rena' (Jessie Irene) Nickson in riding clothes
and with back to camera was the wife of Major T. D. Sutherland,
Sechelt's first law enforcement officer.
Photograph
by Edric Clayton
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6.5.100
1920s
-- Interior of Herbert Whitaker's fourth store and Post Office
built in 1915 or 1916.
Upper
floor was an annex to his second hotel. The building was sold
to the Union Steamship Company in 1926 after his death and run
by the USS until 1956. It was pulled down in the 1960s.
Photograph
by Edric Clayton
See
also oversize photograph 6.15.41
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6.5.101
circa
1930s -- Sechelt's General Store, hotel and Sechelt First Nations
lands from the water.
Photographer
unknown
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6.5.102
1920s
-- Dance pavilion and tea room, left of the totem poles and west
of Wharf Road, was built by Herbert Whitaker in the early 1920s
and bought by the Union Steamship Company in 1926, after his death,
along with all his holdings in Sechelt. The totem poles, erected
between 1927 and 1929, were commissioned by the Union Steamship
Company. They were carved in Sechelt under the direction of Paul
Weenah of Rivers Inlet. They were removed to Bowen Island in 1955.
The two storey building on the right was Herbert Whitaker's second
store, built probably around 1899, and was also Sechelt's first
school (1912) and first telegraph office (1913-1914). It was attached
to his fourth store after its construction in 1915-1916.
Photographer
unknown
See
also oversize photograph 6.15.43
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6.5.102.1
1920-1924
-- Dance pavilion under construction in the early 1920s for Herbert
Whitaker on the Boulevard between Inlet Avenue and Wharf Road.
Ronald Whitaker his brother, who had the contract to build it
was helped by Norman Burley and, it is said, by Edric Clayton,
cousin of Herbert and Ronald. A second peak at the front was added
later by the Union Steamship Company. Various businesses to occupy
the premises included a tea room, a movie theatre, salaal plant,
Men's Wear shop, Doctor's office, roller skating rink and a residential
apartment.
Photograph
by Edric Clayton
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Copyright
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