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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)
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Series
6.5-- Identified buildings, streets, structures, Sechelt and District
-- Wharf Road, Page 3
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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6.5.237
early 1920s -- One of Bert Whitaker's rental cottages on the Boulevard
Photographer
unknown
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6.5.238
early
1920s -- Sechelt's first street, Wharf Road, built in 1896 with
Bert Whitaker's pump house and water tower on the west side and
Brackenwood Cottage with his barn behind on the right side of
the road. The cottage housed telegraph operators Charles Bradbury
and George Wood. Note telegraph lines on east side of the road.
Photograph by Edric Clayton
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6.5.239
circa
1930s -- Wharf Road (originally Porpoise Bay Road) in winter.
The fence on the left surrounded the Union Steamship Company's
picnic grounds between Cowrie and Dolphin Streets.
Photograph
courtesy Isobel Gilbert (nee Whitaker)
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6.5.240
circa 1930s -- Wharf Road looking north with the Union Steamship
Company picnic grounds on the left and its cottages on the right
in the Whitaker orchard.
Photographer
unknown
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6.5.241
circa
1930s -- Intersection of Wharf Road and Cowrie Street with Union
Steamship picnic grounds on the left. The two buildings on the
right are Bert Whitaker's barn (rear building) and the "Barn Cottage"
in front.
Photograph
courtesy Isobel Gilbert (nee Whitaker)
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Copyright
© The Sechelt Community Archives
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