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1914 -- Fire starts at the rear of the hotel

Charles Bradbury, Sechelt's first telegraph operator, took this, the first in a series of photographs of the fire that destroyed Sechelt's first hotel on June 1, 1914. Herbert Whitaker had sold his hotel and other properties in 1913 to the Canadian-European (German) Investment Corporation Ltd. but later regained possession of them due to the 1914-1918 war.

Photograph by Charles Bradbury