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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 -- Modern Buildings, 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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6.5.115

1974 -- On Trail Bay waterfront

Originally the Union Estates Bath House converted to a restaurant variously known as "The Calypso," "Whispering Pines" and "The Parthenon."

Photograph courtesy The Peninsula Times newspaper and the Alsgard family


6.5.116

1974 -- On Trail Bay waterfront

Originally the Union Estates Bath House converted to a restaurant variously known as "The Calypso," "Whispering Pines" and "The Parthenon."

Photograph courtesy The Peninsula Times newspaper and the Alsgard family


6.5.117

1979 -- Trail Bay waterfront homes

"Quinte Cottage" the waterfront home of D. Steve and Bessie Wallbridge, built on Teredo Street, Sechelt in 1926, later owned by Ken Whitaker then Philip and Mary Gross.

Photographer unknown


6.5.118

1979 -- Trail Bay waterfront homes

Boathouse and Gazebo built by J. Mervyn Boucher, owner of "Edgecombe Estates," Teredo Street, Sechelt. This home on the waterfront was formerly "Opeongo Lodge" built in 1926 for Bryce and Gertie Fleck.

Photographer unknown


6.5.119

1979-- Trail Bay waterfront homes

"Rockledge" the waterfront home of Professor English built in 1931 on Teredo Street, Sechelt. Subsequently owned by Leo and Elsie Johnson then Bill and Lil Fraser.

Photographer unknown


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