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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 6
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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6.5.186
Date
unknown -- Sechelt's first gas station, Home Gas, on the north
side of Cowrie Street at Trail Avenue where the gas was first
pumped by hand. It was owned by Alice French, a WW1 war bride,
until her death in 1971. Her house stood immediately behind the
gas station. She leased it to various people over the years including
Jack Nelson (1951), Leo Johnson and Niels Hanson. Later owners
were Peggy and Cliff Connor. The building on the right was well-known
early resident Mrs. Crucil's dress shop "Tasella Shop."
Photograph
courtesy the Peninsula Times newspaper and the Alsgard family
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6.5.187
Date
unknown -- May Day Parade heading west along Cowrie Street. Shop
Easy sign is being paraded.
Photographer
unknown
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6.5.188
196?
-- East side of Inlet Avenue with the backs of buildings on the
south side of Cowrie Street. The wooden structure in the ditch
was designed to pick up drainage from the bog area between Cowrie
and today's Teredo Street and empty the water into Trail Bay.
The buildings from left to right are the back of Whitaker House
with tiny cottage in the rear rented to Mrs. C. Duncan after the
Sechelt Inn fires of 1963 and 1964, George Flay's Barber Shop
and corner of "Sechelt Enterprise Ltd." Building built in 1954
by Frank Parker and Captain McIntyre.
Photograph
courtesy the Peninsula Times newspaper andd the Alsgard family
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6.5.189
1974
-- 1222 Trail Avenue, built by Frank French, owner of Sechelt's
first gas station, for artist Gilbert Smith and his wife. Others
who lived there, included Mrs. M. Gibson and John Watson. The
home was demolished in 1974.
Photographer
unknown
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6.5.190
1974
-- 1222 Trail Avenue, built by Frank French, owner of Sechelt's
first gas station, for artist Gilbert Smith and his wife. Others
who lived there, included Mrs. M. Gibson and John Watson. Sechelt's
1967 Centennial Library, is on the right. The home was demolished
in 1974.
Photographer
unknown
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