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6.13.33
circa
1921 -- Whitaker's Beach, named after Arthur Whitaker a cousin of Sechelt
entrepreneur Herbert Whitaker. Arthur and Herbert's brother Ron were partners
in the Real Estate Company Whitaker and Whitaker which promoted land in
North and West Vancouver and on the Sunshine Coast. The beach was later
named Byng Bay. Arthur was at various times a councilor of the District
of North Vancouver, a Notary Public, a Director of Burrard Inlet Tunnel
and Bridge Company and promoter of a car ferry across Howe Sound as early
as 1936.
Photographer
unknown
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