Photographs depict the pupils at the second Whaletown school standing beside the school. The photograph was taken by Evelyn Dow, who taught there from February 1928 to June 1929. This school was built in 1918 near the corner of Coulter Bay Road and Carrington Bay Road, and was used (with improvements) until 1950. The front, side and surroundings of the school are clearly shown.
Front row third from left is Marion Borden; Vernon Borden next to her fourth from left.
Top row, far right: Lorna Borden
(IDs by Terrill Marlow, Marion’s daughter, and Rob Borden, Vernon’s son).
Photographs are from an album created by Evelyn Dow and were donated to CIMAS by her niece, Sharon Thomas.
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Photographs depict the pupils at the second Whaletown school standing beside the school. The photograph was taken by Evelyn Dow, who taught there from February 1928 to June 1929. This school was built in 1918 near the corner of Coulter Bay Road and Carrington Bay Road, and was used (with improvements) until 1950. The front, side and surroundings of the school are clearly shown.
Front row third from left is Marion Borden; Vernon Borden next to her fourth from left.
Top row, far right: Lorna Borden
(IDs by Terrill Marlow, Marion’s daughter, and Rob Borden, Vernon’s son).
Photograph of a dock with a ramp leading to a building with a sign "Store" on the front, just above the high tide line. Captioned "Where the trip ends".
Photograph of a dock with a ramp leading to a building with a sign "Store" on the front, just above the high tide line. Captioned "Where the trip ends".
Photograph of a woman beside the fish scow at the Whaletown dock, holding a large salmon. (ID - Nesta Slater?). With the series of Slater photographs is a paper typed by Gilean Douglas offering other fishing pictures of the "Dorr's" (the name she used for the Slaters in her magazine articles).
Photograph of a woman beside the fish scow at the Whaletown dock, holding a large salmon. (ID - Nesta Slater?). With the series of Slater photographs is a paper typed by Gilean Douglas offering other fishing pictures of the "Dorr's" (the name she used for the Slaters in her magazine articles).
Photograph of a wood shingled house with attached sheds. A child is standing on the porch, next to a washing machine. Coulours on the print are yellowed.
Photograph of a wood shingled house with attached sheds. A child is standing on the porch, next to a washing machine. Coulours on the print are yellowed.
Photograph of a group of women, possibly a Women's Institute group, in front of the house at Channel Rock.
Front, L to R: Louisa Tooker, Meg Shaw, Mrs. Ella (John) McLean
Back, L to R: (Needs ID), Nesta (Ackerman) Slater, Edith Huck, (Needs ID)
Photograph of a group of women, possibly a Women's Institute group, in front of the house at Channel Rock.
Front, L to R: Louisa Tooker, Meg Shaw, Mrs. Ella (John) McLean
Back, L to R: (Needs ID), Nesta (Ackerman) Slater, Edith Huck, (Needs ID)
Back, L to R: (ID unknown), Jessie Thornton, John Nagle, Ruth Byers, Pat Robertson, Marg Dalskog
Center: Margaret Walsh, Dell Tooker, Meg Shaw, (ID unknown), Madeleine Emanuelson, Louise Kendrick
Front: Sid Fry, Velma Bergman
Back, L to R: (ID unknown), Jessie Thornton, John Nagle, Ruth Byers, Pat Robertson, Marg Dalskog
Center: Margaret Walsh, Dell Tooker, Meg Shaw, (ID unknown), Madeleine Emanuelson, Louise Kendrick
Front: Sid Fry, Velma Bergman
