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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 -- Wharf Road, Page 4

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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6.5.242

1938 -- Highway 101 West Sechelt

Photograph courtesy Mrs. Mary Gray

 


6.5.244

1958 -- Two buildings on the east side of Wharf Road are: on the left, the B.C. Electric building; in the white building were Robilliard Electric, Aggett Agencies Ltd. a real estate company and the Sechelt Taxi Company. The four men, from left to right, are Harry Sawyer who owned the white building, the taxi company and both the cars, Jack Jonas, one of his taxi driver, Mr. George Phillips a dispatcher for the taxi company and a Justice of the Peace and Ted Surtees owner of Aggett Agencies Ltd.

Photographer unknown

 


6.5.245

1973-- buildings on the east side of Wharf Road: Wes and Mary Harrowell's home and shoe repair business,

Photographer unknown

 


6.5.246

1973 -- buildings on the east side of Wharf Road: formerly housed B.C. Forestry Services with part of the shoe repair building on the right.

Photographer unknown

 


6.5.247

1973 -- buildings on the east side of Wharf Road: Hansen's Transfer on far left, former B.C. Forestry Services office in the centre and the Shoe Renew business on the right

Photographer unknown

 


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