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Helen Dawe Collection

Series 6.7
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Series 6.7 -- Individuals and Groups, Sechelt and District -- Mc-M, Page 3

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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6.7.173

Date unknown -- Edna Martin and Gladys Cox on the Sechelt wharf.

Photographer unknown


6.7.174

1926 -- Abe Mason clears Lot 1, Block 2, D. L. 1331 for the summer home of Steve Wallbridge who had bought the lot from Thomas Cook. It later belonged to Kenneth Whitaker and then to Phillip Gross. Jean Cook (later Mrs. Whittaker) stands on the left. Mason Road in West Sechelt is named after Abe who took up Lot 4313 and farmed there.

Photographer unknown


6.7.175

1920s -- Mason home beside Cook Creek on the west side of Porpoise Bay. Mrs. Charles Jordan is seated with Mrs. Abe Wilson standing to her right, Abe Mason, in front of her, came from Seattle to log in the Sechelt area. Beside him is Stan De Long, another early settler and logger in the area.

Photographer unknown


6.7.176

1960s-1970s -- Mr. Jack Mayne, a prominent early resident of Sechelt, had emigrated from England to Vancouver, served in the Canadian forces in WW1 and moved to Sechelt around 1927 where he worked in the post office under Mr. Robert Hackett. From his house on Cowrie Street where he worked as a Notary Public he and his wife Carrie ran a boarding house and rented out summer cabins. He was very active in various organizations on the coast being a founding member of the Sechelt Royal Canadian Legion, involved in the Catholic Church in Sechelt and an elected Trustee on the Board of the Victorian Order of Nurses.

Photograph courtesy the Sechelt Peninsula Times and the Alsgard family.


6.7.177

1912 -- Edith Morgan, daughter of Mrs. James Morgan. The Morgan family came to Sechelt in 1910 where, for a short time, Mr. James Morgan was manager of Bert Whitaker's hotel. He left to become chief steward on C.P.R.'s Princess Victoria and the Morgan family moved to San Diego in 1920. Edith had married Gus Hanson in 1917 and while her husband was overseas had worked in Bert Whitaker's store prior to moving to the USA. She later returned to Sechelt and married Sam De Long while her sister Winnie married his brother Bob De Long.

Photographer unknown


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