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1964 -- The end of the Sechelt Inn

Firemen burn down the previously damaged 62-year-old Sechelt Inn. Once the home of pioneer settlers Alfred and Henrietta Whitaker from 1906 until 1926, the house was sold by the estate of son Herbert Whitaker in 1926. The Union Steamship Company's subsidiary, Union Estates, ran it as an Inn until selling it in 1952 when Mrs. Florence Duncan continued to operate it as a hotel until badly damaged by fire in 1963.

Photograph courtesy The Peninsula Times newspaper and the Alsgard family