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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)


Series 6.5-- Identified buildings, streets, structures, Sechelt and District -- Streets, Page 7

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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6.5.191

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

 


6.5.192

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

 


6.5.193

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

 


6.5.194

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

 


6.5.195

1967 -- Greene Court Senior Citizens Housing Project on Ocean Avenue, Sechelt. This project was spearheaded by Canon Alan Greene of the Columbia Coast Mission and various Sechelt residents.

Photograph courtesy the Peninsula Times newspaper and the Alsgard family

 


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