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1964 -- Another fire at the Sechelt Inn

This fire was set by the Sechelt firemen to raze the already badly fire damaged building. Mrs. Florence Duncan, the owner, had lost the Sechelt Inn due to a fire in 1963. The Sechelt Inn had been built as a family home in 1906 for Alfred and Henrietta Whitaker. In 1926 their son Herbert Whitaker's estate sold it and his lands and assets to the Union Steamship Company. It was run by the Company's subsidiary, Union Estates, until 1962 when Mrs. Florence Duncan acquired the lovely old building.

Photograph courtesy The Peninsula Times newspaper and the Alsgard family