Helen
Dawe Collection -- Index
Series
6
Aerial
Photographs (6.1)
Bog,
Marsh Sechelt (6.2)
General, Panoramic
views (6.3)
General, Panoramic
views (6.4)
Identified
buildings (6.5)
First Nations
of Sechelt (6.6)
Individual
people/groups (6.7)
May Days, picnics,
etc. (6.8)
Resource Industries
(6.9)
Schools (6.10)
Ships
(6.11)
Transportation
(6.12)
Whitaker
family (6.13)
Cook,
Dawe, Steele, Whittaker familes (6.14)
Series
2
General
A-Z -- The Crucils
Series
10
Union
Steamship and All Red Line Companies
Series
11
Captain
Sam and Ada Dawe
Series
13
The
Sechelt Inn
Series
20
Souvenir
brochures, postcards
Series
24
Merry
Island lighthouse
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Series
6.8 -- May Days, picnics, parks, Page 7
May
Day photographs include two from 1918, rest are from 1949-1980, majority
from 1950s and 1960s. Park and picnic photographs are of clearing the
land in 1914, tennis courts in the 1920s and the Union Steamship Company
picnic ground in the 1930s.
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2 3
4 5
6 7 8
9 10
11 12
13 14
15 16
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6.8.27
1951?
-- Kenneth Whitaker adjusts the microphone for the May Day Queen
as Mary Parker, the second May Day Queen watches.
Photograph
by Ballentine of Gibson's Landing
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6.8.28
1950
-- Mary Parker, the second May Day Queen stands with her attendants
Photograph
by Ballentine of Gibson's Landing
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6.8.29
1962
-- May Day in Hackett Park; Jack Fleming, Principal of Sechelt
School, stands at the back of the platform. Back row seated left-right;
Dianne Ono, Chris Johnston, chairman of the Village Commission,
Mary Lamb, Winnie Toynbee, a naval officer, Bill Billingsley,
Jack Redman. The 1962 Queen, Sandy Clarke and retiring 1961 Queen
Jo-Anne Robilliard are seated in the middle of the front row.
Fred Cruice, editor of the Coast news, is in the left foreground.
Photograph
unknown
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6.8.30
1959
-- North Vancouver Lonsdale sea cadets perform during a May Day
at Hackett Park, Sechelt.
Photographer
unknown
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6.8.31
1959
-- A float in Sechelt's May Day parade
Photographer
unknown
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