Photograph of the Whaletown post office, in its original location (315 Whaletown Rd). The post office was built here (on the property of 315 Whaletown Rd) in 1947. In 1981 it was moved across the road beside the parking area of the Whaletown store; in 2020 it was moved out of Whaletown to the parking lot of the Gorge Hall on Robertson Rd.
Photograph of the Whaletown post office, in its original location (315 Whaletown Rd). The post office was built here (on the property of 315 Whaletown Rd) in 1947. In 1981 it was moved across the road beside the parking area of the Whaletown store; in 2020 it was moved out of Whaletown to the parking lot of the Gorge Hall on Robertson Rd.
Photograph of the Manson's Landing wharf, taken from the water at high tide. It includes the oil and wharf sheds on the dock, an unknown scow boat with cabin at the float and the store ashore. Note: telephone poles from the original phone line across the mouth of the lagoon; higher banks along the shoreline.
Photograph of the Manson's Landing wharf, taken from the water at high tide. It includes the oil and wharf sheds on the dock, an unknown scow boat with cabin at the float and the store ashore. Note: telephone poles from the original phone line across the mouth of the lagoon; higher banks along the shoreline.
Photograph of Manson's Landing wharf, with Cat and Kitten Islands in the bacckground. Their are two sheds at the end of the dock above the ramp, and an old car is parked beside them. (date?)
Photograph of Manson's Landing wharf, with Cat and Kitten Islands in the bacckground. Their are two sheds at the end of the dock above the ramp, and an old car is parked beside them. (date?)
Photograph of Rev. Rollo Boas (middle), Mr. and Mrs. J. Maunsell and four children, including a boy on a bicycle, standing in a field. St. James Church is in its clearing in the background; the road in front.
Photograph of Rev. Rollo Boas (middle), Mr. and Mrs. J. Maunsell and four children, including a boy on a bicycle, standing in a field. St. James Church is in its clearing in the background; the road in front.
Photograph shows the front view of the store in Whaletown, the Whaletown Trading Post. A woman in a red sweater is looking at the bulletin board. This is a postcard printed in the 1990s, from a photograph taken by Doug Alderson, Jalmar Olson's son-in-law and Judy Alderson's father.
Photograph shows the front view of the store in Whaletown, the Whaletown Trading Post. A woman in a red sweater is looking at the bulletin board. This is a postcard printed in the 1990s, from a photograph taken by Doug Alderson, Jalmar Olson's son-in-law and Judy Alderson's father.
Photograph of the store in Whaletown, Petrie's Trading Post at the time. There is an ad for cigars on the building; a man smoking a pipe, and people are waving at the the "Rendezvous" leaving Whaletown Bay.
Photograph of the store in Whaletown, Petrie's Trading Post at the time. There is an ad for cigars on the building; a man smoking a pipe, and people are waving at the the "Rendezvous" leaving Whaletown Bay.