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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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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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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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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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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