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Helen Dawe Collection

Series 6.7
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Series 6.7 -- Individuals and Groups, Sechelt and District -- P, Page 2

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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6.7.216

1913-1914 -- Photograph of one of Alfred A. Bradbury's two watercolour paintings of Trail Bay; one looks east towards the Sechelt Band lands and the other looks west from the easterly end of the Sechelt Band lands. Alfred Bradbury was the artist father of Charles Bradbury, Sechelt's first telegraph operator 1913-1914. Alfred was an Associate of the Royal College of Artists (London) and came to visit his son in Sechelt. He painted these two paintings at least three times ; the archives set was donated to the Sechelt Public Library by Ada Dawe, a second set hangs in the Sechelt Municipal Offices and a third set belongs to the pioneer Whitaker family.

Photographer unknown


6.7.217

1902 -- Coloured photograph of 'Sechelt in 1902' painted by Henry de Forest and said to have been 'given' to Bert Whitaker in lieu of payment of de Forest's hotel bill. When the village of Sechelt opened its new municipal hall in 1956 Geoffrey Whitaker, grandson of Bert Whitaker, presented the de Forest painting of Sechelt's first hotel to the village. Twenty years later the city fathers took it down and Ada Dawe placed it in the Sechelt Public Library. Henry de Forest, 1860-1924, was active in Vancouver art circles circa 1900 and later.

Photographs of painting by Mary K. Pellat


6.7.218

1902 -- Coloured photograph of 'Sechelt in 1902' painted by Henry de Forest and said to have been 'given' to Bert Whitaker in lieu of payment of de Forest's hotel bill. When the village of Sechelt opened its new municipal hall in 1956 Geoffrey Whitaker, grandson of Bert Whitaker, presented the de Forest painting of Sechelt's first hotel to the village. Twenty years later the city fathers took it down and Ada Dawe placed it in the Sechelt Public Library. Henry de Forest, 1860-1924, was active in Vancouver art circles circa 1900 and later.

Photographs of painting by Mary K. Pellat


6.7.219

1930s -- A photograph of Irene Sanderson's painted map of Sechelt in the 1930s during the Union Estates era. She and her family spent holidays at Selma Park in their youth. She taught art in Vancouver schools. At one time the map hung in the Sechelt Public Library.

Photographer unknown


6.7.226

Late 1960s -- A member of the RCMP detachment at Sechelt popular with the Sechelt Band during the 1960s who had accompanied the youth band to the USA.

Photograph courtesy the Sechelt Peninsula Times newspaper and the Alsgard family


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