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Series
6.7 -- Individuals and Groups, Sechelt and District -- F, Page 6
Photographs
consist of pioneer families, individuals, groups, Mayors and Councillors,
members of town service industries of Sechelt listed in alphabetical
order. Photographers include Edric Clayton, Charles Bradbury, Helen
McCall.
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6.7.100
1920s
-- The Roy Fleming shingle bolt camp, shingle bolt crib, flume
and mules up Roberts Creek Hill. Roy Fleming, Mrs. Fleming, daughter
Myheera, foreman 'Garney' and a Japanese child are in several
of the photographs.
Photographers
unknown
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6.7.101
1935
-- Mrs. Alice French (pictured on the left), operated Sechelt's
first lending library and gift shop in this building which was
behind the present day Shell gas station on the north east corner
of Cowrie Street and Trail Avenue. She served in the WAAF in WW1
and married Canadian service man Frank French, coming to Canada
in 1919. She helped the Rev. Owen Derby put out The Eagle, Sechelt's
first newspaper, and later wrote articles for The Coast News and
Peninsula Times newspapers, served on the first School Board,
was a charter member of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 140 and
a member of the Rebekah Lodge. She died in 1973. For additional
photographs see The Betty
Twigg Fonds.
Photographer
unknown. See also oversize photograph 6.15.117
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6.7.102
Date
unknown -- Mrs. Alice French, seated centre, resided in Sechelt
from 1919 until her death in 1973. She started Sechelt's first
lending library in her small store behind her husband Frank French's
gas station on the corner of Cowrie Street and Trail Avenue, which
she helped him operate. She was on Sechelt's first School Board,
wrote for local newspapers, was a charter member of the Royal
Canadian Legion Branch 140 (she served in the WAAF in WW1), and
a member of the Rebekah Lodge.
Photograph
probably by the Peninsula Times newspaper and courtesy the Alsgard
family
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6.7.103
circa
1919 -- William J. French (1850-1936), father-in-law of Alice
French, was born in England in. He emigrated to Canada and was
a butcher in New Westminster until he retired to West Porpoise
Bay about 1910. His wife remained in New Westminster but two of
his sons received crown grants to DL1647 (Earl) and DL 4306 Frank).
William's garden at 'Sweet Pea Ranch' was well-known. He was a
school trustee in1919-1920 when the school was at West Porpoise
Bay.
Photograph
courtesy Winnie Morgan
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6.7.104
1919
-- William, 1850-1936, (right) and son Francis (Frank) French,
1891-1964, outside Frank and Alice's first home on Mason Road
in West Sechelt. William retired to West Porpoise Bay around 1910
from New Westminster and was a school trustee when the school
was at Porpoise Bay. Frank served in WW1 in Britain, met and married
Alice Spelman, who was in the WAAF. They came to Sechelt in 1919.
He was the first B.C. police constable resident in Sechelt, ran
the gas station on the northeast corner of Cowrie Street and Trail
Avenue and operated a taxi service.
Photographer
unknown
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