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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
-- Streets, 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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6.5.164
1908-1912
-- Built in 1907 by Bert Whitaker for his sister and brother-in-law
Evelyn and Jack Haslett, who was Bert's bookkeeper, it was known
as 'Red Cottage.' Rented in 1917 to Captain and Mrs. Cope it was
still 'Red Cottage;' as it faded it became known as 'Pink Cottage'
until in 1974 it became 'Whitaker Cottage' and was an Arts and
Crafts Centre. It was demolished in 1980.
Photographer
unknown
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6.5.165
1910-1912
-- Horace J. Haslett (Jack) standing on the front porch of 'Red
Cottage' with one of his four children. The house was built by
his brother-in-law Herbert Whitaker as a revenue property. Tenants
included Hasletts, Morgans, Copes, Byers, Doyles, Halls etc. It
was known in the 1970s as the Whitaker House and was demolished
in 1980.
Photographer
unknown
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6.5.166
1974
-- The Whitaker House/Red Cottage owned in1974 by the firm of
Killiam, Anderson and Perry and leased to the Sunshine Coast Arts
Council for use as an arts and crafts centre. Built in 1907 by
Herbert Whitaker it was demolished in 1980.
Photograph
courtesy The Peninsula Times newspaper and the Alsgard family
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6.5.167
1974
-- The Whitaker House/Red Cottage was leased to the Sunshine Coast
Arts and Crafts Council for use as an arts and crafts centre.
Built in 1907 by Herbert Whitaker it was demolished in 1980.
Photograph
courtesy The Peninsula Times newspaper and the Alsgard family
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6.5.172
1978
-- Whitaker House/Red Cottage built by Herbert Whitaker in 1907
now vacated by the Sunshine Coast Arts and Crafts Council. Hayden
Killam, the owner, applied for Sechelt Council's permission to
erect a commercial building. The house was demolished in 1908.
Photograph
courtesy the Peninsula Times newspaper and the Alsgard family
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Copyright
© The Sechelt Community Archives
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