Sechelt Community Archives -- Series 6.5, Buildings -- Wharf Road, Page 5

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 5

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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1973 -- buildings on the east side of Wharf Road: former B. C. Forestry Services building.

Photographer unknown

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1973 -- Built as Whitaker's barn in 1906 the second storey roof was removed by Louis Hansen and his son Niels of Hansen's Transfer about 1954/1955 and an office was added on the south side.

Photographer unknown

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1979 -- The demolition of Bert Whitaker's 1906 barn. After Bert's death the barn was sold to the Union Steamship Company in 1926 and acquired by Louis and son Niels Hansen in the 1950s for a warehouse.

Photograph courtesy The Press newspaper and the Richard Proctor family

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1915 -- The Whitaker family lived in this house at Selma Park after Bert Whitaker sold his Sechelt properties to the Canadian-European Investment Company Ltd. in 1913. He recovered his businesses in 1915 but had to wait for Mr. T. P. O'Kelly, his manager, to vacate the original Whitaker home "Beach House" on Trail Bay in Sechelt.

Photographer unknown

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late 1960s -- The Bank of Montreal building at Madeira Park

Photograph courtesy the Sechelt Peninsula Times newspaper and the Alsgard family

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