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1964 -- Second fire at the Sechelt Inn

Sechelt firemen burn the Sechelt Inn, previously gutted by a 1963 fire. Once the home of Alfred and Henrietta Whitaker it was sold by son Herbert Whitaker's estate to the Union Steamship Company in 1926. It was run as an Inn by the subsidiary Union Estates Co. until purchased by Mrs. Florence Duncan, who operated the Inn for a further 11 years.

Photograph courtesy Sechelt resident Harold Nelson