Gibsons

Mary Cook (nee Fletcher)

Her dad fished, gill netted out of a skiff. Sold to the canneries. Fished Rivers Inlet for 50 years. Fished out of Whattams, for BC Packers, but there is nothing there now. She used to go with him. Her husband and she took over her dad's boat. They usually fished July and August. There were lots of fish. He dad logged in the winter, was a boom man. Logged on Gambier Island.

She remembers Charlie Strong

Her grandfather pre-empted from Sechelt Road to Chester. Owned all of Fletcher Road, built houses in the 1920s and sold them.

Grandmother had a bit of a store, part of the house on Pratt Road. Grandfather worked in logging, built skid roads into Gibsons Harbour. Horse logged. Her Grandad Weingard used oxen to log.

In 1926 granny and grandad moved down to the water at the creek, right at the foot of Winn (Hendersons). Original house is gone.

Glue factory was on the water till the 70s.

Sechelt

[Thomas Cook]? and [Sarah Cook]?, were among the first white settlers in Sechelt, taking up permanent residence in 1894.

Their daughter, Sechelt pioneer resident [Ada Dawe]? (Cook), married Captain [Samuel Dawe]? and gave birth to Helen Dawe.