Sechelt Community Archives -- Series 6.6, First Nations of Sechelt -- Totem Poles, Page 1

Series 6.6
   Art
    Cemetery, churches
    People
    School buildings
    Totem poles
    Village views

Series 6.6-- First Nations of Sechelt -- Totem Poles, Page 1

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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circa 1928-1929 -- Totem poles carved by Sechelt carver Dan Paull and Philip Paul Weenah of Rivers Inlet and commissioned by the Union Steamship Company. They stood outside the Sechelt Dance Pavilion and Totem Tea Room on the waterfront at Trail Bay until 1955 when they were removed to Bowen Island after the Union Steam Ship Company turned the village of Sechelt over to its residents in 1956.

Photograph # 5361 by Helen McCall, photograph courtesy the Vancouver City Archives

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1929 -- Smallest of three totem poles commissioned by the Union Steamship Company. They stood on the Trail Bay waterfront until 1955 when they were removed to Bowen Island.

Photographer unknown

6.6.106

1929 -- Largest of the three totem poles on the Trail Bay waterfront outside the Union Steamship Company's Totem Tea Room and Dance Pavilion. They stood there until 1955 when they were removed to Bowen Island. Gladys Disney, later Mrs. McNutt of Egmont, on the right.

Photographer unknown

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