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1914 -- Flames leap from the roof of the Sechelt hotel and rescued furniture is scattered on the beach

Leighton P. Harrison, a guest at Sechelt's first hotel, took this, the first in a series of photographs of the fire that destroyed the hotel building 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 after the 1914-1918 war.

Photograph by Leighton P. Harrison