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Helen
Dawe Collection
Series
6.6
Art
Cemetery,
churches
People
School buildings
Totem
poles
Village
views
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Series
6.6-- First Nations of Sechelt -- School buildings, Page 2
Photographs
include the Sechelt 'Stone Image' (a seated figure bowl), brass bands,
canoes, cemetery, the three churches and passion plays, identified individuals
and groups, the residential school, pupils and nuns, totem poles and
various village scenes. Photographers include Charles Bradbury, Phillip
Timms, Helen McCall, Edric Clayton.
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6.6.87
1909
-- Chapel on the third floor of the Sechelt Band's residential
school
Photograph
courtesy Sechelt Band member David Paul
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6.6.88
circa
1913 -- Sechelt Indian Band's residential school, with service
building behind and orchard in fore ground, built for $11,000
with funds raised by the Sechelt Indian Band from logging and
fishing. The teaching staff consisted of nuns of the order of
the Sisters of the Child Jesus. Cows grazed where St. Mary's Hospital
is today.
Photograph
by Charles Bradbury
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6.6.89
1916
-- On the wharf at Sechelt, second hotel on the left and the Sechelt
Indian residential school on the far right. Arthur Whitaker, centre
left, in light suit with left hand in vest pocket
Photographer
unknown
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6.6.90
circa
1917-1922 -- Temporary buildings after 1917 residential school
fire; large building behind the 'Sacred Heart' statue was class
rooms and the boys' dormitory, centre building was the girls'
dormitory and three storey building on the right was the novice
house for the nuns.
Photographer
unknown
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6.6.91
circa
1926 -- Second Sechelt Indian residential school built of bricks
was destroyed in 1975. The two square cottages in front were given
by the federal government to former students, Louis Paul and Mike
Paul, when they got married. The original postcard was sent by
Charles Bradbury to Mr. George Aman of Sechelt.
Photograph
by Charles Bradbury
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