Sechelt Community Archives -- Series 6.5, Buildings -- Wakefield, West Sechelt, 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 -- Wakefield Inn, West Sechelt, 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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1982 -- Wakefield Inn, Sechelt was built in 1926 for Major Thomas Douglas Sutherland and his wife Renee (nee Nickson). He was game warden and later provincial policeman in Sechelt and then Powell River.

Photograph courtesy The Press newspaper and the Richard Proctor family

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1981-- The Sechelt Provincial Police Office opposite provincial policeman Major T.D. Sutherland's home 'Wakefield' (later the Wakefield Inn). Built in the 1930s it became a 'Relief Office' and then, for a short time, a coffee shop after the police office moved to the east side of Wharf Street into one of the Union Steamship cottages in the former Whitaker orchard.

Photograph courtesy the Sunshine Coast Realtor newspaper