Nick Gilbert Collection -- Aman
Album, Page 1
Mr. Nicholas Gilbert is the son of Isobel Gilbert
nee Whitaker. Her father was Herbert Whitaker, one of the
earliest settlers in Sechelt, who had come with his parents
and siblings to Vancouver. Herbert and his father pre-empted
land in Sechelt in 1892 and in 1894 the family settled
there. The Whitakers held title to the town site lots on
which Sechelt now stands and owned stores, hotels, the first
Post Office, logging camps, two wharves and the Sechelt
Steamship Company. Herbert and Mae Whitaker had two
children, Kenneth and Isobel who married Delmar Gilbert.
Delmar Gilbert was the headmaster at Wilson Creek School
during the 1930s and the first Principal of the Sechelt
United School. He was killed in WW2 and Nicholas never knew
his father. In the early 1940s his mother bought the Selma
Park home of Mr. George Aman which he had built in 1928. Mr.
Aman was Mr. Whitaker's first General Store manager and
later Manager of the Union Steamship Estates Company.
Nicholas and his mother lived in the house until 1964 when
it was sold to its present owners. Isobel died in 1976 and
Nicholas lives on Saltspring Island.
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