Sechelt Community Archives -- Series 6.5, Buildings -- St. Mary's Hospital, 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. Mary's Hospital, 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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6.5.157

1929 -- The first buildings for St. Mary's Hospital, Pender Harbour were these three house floats from O'Brien Bay on Vancouver Island. They sank in a storm in Johnston Strait.

Photographer unknown

6.5.158

1930 -- Canadian Pacific Steamship `Princess Patricia'(right) lying alongside `Hospital Wharf' in Garden Bay when she carried 200 passengers from Vancouver to Pender Harbour for the official opening ceremonies of St. Mary's Hospital. Smaller vessel on the left side of the wharf is the Columbia Coast Mission ship 'Alan D. Greene' built by Sam and Bert Dawe.

Photographer unknown

6.5.159

circa 1930s --Garden Bay (Hospital Bay), Pender Harbour in front of St. Mary's Hospital.

Photograph by Edric Clayton

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