Sechelt Community Archives -- Series 6.5, Buildings -- Stores, Page 5

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 5

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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1930s-1940s -- Dance pavilion with addition, three totem poles, Whitaker house in the background, Herbert Whitaker's second and fourth general stores

Postcard # D11 by Helen McCall

See also oversize photograph 6.15.42

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1937 -- Union Steamship Company buildings on the Boulevard.

Left to right:

1. Bathhouse/changing rooms, ice cream parlour, and coffee shop. Later a restaurant under various names; Calypso Room, Whispering Pines, The Parthenon

2. Union Estates Ltd. dance pavilion, built in early 1920s, enlarged in 1937. It burned down in 1971

3. Three totem poled carved by Paul Weenah of Rivers Inlet and Sechelt First Nations about 1927 or 1928. They were removed to Bowen Island in 1955.

4. The tiny building on the right behind the totem pole beside the gas pump was moved by Mr. Art James to Highway 101 in Roberts Creek to serve as his smoked salmon shop.

Photograph by Harry Winn, courtesy the Vancouver City Archives

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late 1920s early 1930s -- Dance Pavilion and Tennis Courts on Trail Bay

The east side of the dance pavilion with tennis courts located behind the totem poles and west of the general store.

Photograph courtesy Robert Hackett

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1965-1966 -- Trail Bay waterfront The demolition of the Herbert Whitaker/Union Steamship Company General Store. Built in 1915-1916 by Herbert Whitaker it was Sechelt's General Store and Post Office serving residents and tourists for fifty years.

Photograph courtesy The Peninsula Times newspaper and the Alsgard family