Sechelt Community Archives -- Twigg Collection, Page 1

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Gwen Abram
   Lansdowne Park
Mrs. Lorraine Ansell
   Sunshine Coast
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   Selma Park Store
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   Harry and Jessie Irvine
Mr. Brian Blackwell
   Sechelt
Audrey Broughton
   Sechelt Meat Lockers
Caple family
   Redrooffs Resort
Richard (Dick) Clayton
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   Crawford home
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   Redrooffs Resort
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   Rockwood Lodge
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   Redrooffs, Cooper's Green
Mrs. Joyce Hubbs
   Selma Park Store
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   Jackson Brothers' Logging
Ms. Caroline Keeley
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   Sechelt General Store
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   Trading Post, Davis Bay
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Mrs. Diana Lofstrom
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Mrs. Barbara Moffett
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Ms. Donna Nelson
   Clowhom Falls
Mr. Kendall Parr Pearson
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Mr. John Pirie
  Hopkin's Landing, Pender Harbour
St. Mary's Hospital Auxiliary
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Sechelt Community Archivist
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Mrs. June Shepherd
   Ernie Penn, Sechelt Hotel
Mrs. Billie Steele
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Mr. Charles Stephens and
Mr. Robert D'Arcy
   Sandy Hook community
Sunshine Coast Credit Union
  Building
Mrs. Bea Swanson
   Swanson Redi-Mix, events
Ms. Val Swanson
   Various
Mrs. Sue Thompson
   Wilson Creek baseball
Mrs. Betty Twigg
   Mrs. Alice French
University Women
   Members, events
The Rev. Kenneth Walker
   George Walker
Mrs. Jean Whittaker
   Shorncliffe Intermediate Care
Mrs. Frances Yordan
   Hunt family, Sargeant Bay

Betty Twigg Collection -- Mrs. Alice French, Page 1

Mrs. Betty Twigg is a distant relative of Frank French, the husband of Alice French who is the subject of the photographs. Alice French came to West Sechelt in 1919 as a war bride from England, where she had met Frank when he was in England in WWI. Alice did much for her new community, serving on the first Sechelt School Board, the school being at that time in the 1920s on Norwest Bay Road, helping to organize the Sechelt Royal Canadian Legion Branch 140 and writing a local interest column for the Coast News newspaper for many years. She ran the first private library in Sechelt from her little store and then sold, at a very reasonable price, land for Sechelt's first public library, which opened in 1967. Frank French was a policeman, a contract builder, and owned the Sechelt taxi business and gas station helped by Alice. After his death, she continued to operate the gas station and also looked after numerous stray cats and dogs. She was passionate about the plight of animals and supported the SPCA over the years. She died in 1973.

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1971-72 -- Alice French and unidentified friend on Trail Avenue in Sechelt. Sechelt Library and original Baptist church in background.

Photo courtesy Betty Twigg

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1971-72 -- Alice French on Trail Avenue in Sechelt.

Photo courtesy Betty Twigg

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early 1970s -- Mrs. Alice French, centre, in front of the 'Whispering Pines' restaurant on the Boulevard in Sechelt. The restaurant was on the site of the current 'Driftwood Inn.'

Photo courtesy Betty Twigg