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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 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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6.5.231

1910-1920 -- The barn, built around 1906, on the Whitaker farm east of what is now Wharf Road. It was sold to the Union Steamship Company in 1926 and later between 1954 and 1956 to Louis Hansen of Hansen's Transfer Ltd. when the upper storey was removed. It was demolished in 1979.

Photographer unknown

 


6.5.231a

1910-1920 -- The barn, built around 1906, on the Whitaker farm east of what is now Wharf Road. It was sold to the Union Steamship Company in 1926 and later between 1954 and 1956 to Louis Hansen of Hansen's Transfer Ltd. when the upper storey was removed. It was demolished in 1979.

Photographer unknown


6.5.232

date unknown -- Bert Whitaker's pump house and windmill situated on the west side and his barn on the east side of Wharf Road (earlier known as Porpoise Bay Road) and south of present day Highway 101.

Photographer unknown


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