Sechelt Community Archives -- Series 6.5, Buildings -- St. Hilda's, Page 1

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 -- St. Hilda's Church, Page 1

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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195? -- St. Hilda's Anglican Church, Sechelt.

The original St. Hilda's Church, dedicated in 1936, with Canon Alan Greene's white car on the left.

Photograph courtesy Harold Swanson

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1936 -- St. Hilda's Anglican Church, Sechelt, on day of dedication, November 15, 1936.

Thomas J. Cook donated Block 17 of DL 1331 for the church and cemetery. His daughter Jean Whittaker stands in front of the church.

Photographer unknown

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1936 -- St. Hilda's Anglican Church, Sechelt, on day of dedication, November 15, 1936.

Thomas J. Cook donated Block17, of DL 1331 for the church and cemetery. His daughter Ada Dawe stands to the left of the altar cross donated in memory of Herbert Whitaker by his family.

Photographer unknown

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