Sechelt Community Archives

Historical Photographs


Home | About | Search | Donate photos | Order photos

Helen Dawe Collection

Series 6.6
   Art

    Cemetery, churches
    People
    School buildings
    Totem poles
    Village views


Series 6.6-- First Nations of Sechelt -- School buildings, Page 4

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.

1   2   3   4 


6.6.98

1917 -- Boys and girls with Father Brabender in front of the first St. Augustine's Indian Residential School at Sechelt. This building burned down on May 29,1917.

Photographer unknown


6.6.99

circa 190? -- Four Sisters of the Order of the Child Jesus and early settlers in Sechelt.

Photographer unknown


6.6.100

1918-1927 -- Mother Gabriel of the Order of the Child Jesus, Principal of the Sechelt Indian Residential School and Mistress of the Novices.

Photographer unknown


6.6.101

1935 -- Sister Joan of Arc of the Order of the Child Jesus on the left with Sister Maureen and two North Vancouver First Nation boys. She taught lacrosse to Indian boys for many years. Taking her vows in 1920 at Our Lady of Lourdes, Sechelt, when Father Brabender officiated and her final ones in 1924.

Photographer unknown


6.6.102

circa 1960s -- A full dress rehearsal of the Sechelt Indian Band Residential School boys brass band

Photograph courtesy the Sechelt Peninsula Times newspaper and the Alsgard family


<previous  

 

Copyright © The Sechelt Community Archives