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Nick Gilbert Collection -- Miscellaneous, Page 7

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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ng-misc-048 1940s? - three children on Harley Davidson motorcycle. Photographer unknown. Photo courtesy Nick Gilbert.

ng-misc-049 1940s -- (l-r) Archie Cawley, Isobel Gilbert on beach at Selma Park looking toward Davis Bay. Photographer unknown. Photo courtesy Nick Gilbert.

ng-misc-050 date unknown -- "The Powell River plane passes the steamer -- and how! Texada Island in the background." Photographer Isobel Whitaker. Photo courtesy Nick Gilbert.

ng-misc-051 1940s? -- "View along the deck of USS Lady Cecilia -- the Captain's arm got in the way." Photographer Isobel Whitaker. Photo courtesy Nick Gilbert.

ng-misc-052 Aug 1940 -- Del Gilbert, Isobel Gilbert, Nippie in Wright's garden in Hedley B.C. Photographer unknown. Photo courtesy Nick Gilbert.

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