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1904 -- Sechelt's First Hotel

View of Sechelt's first hotel from the west; beyond the hotel are Herbert Whitaker's second store, roof only, and his first post office and store building. The spires of the Sechelt Indian Band Church are in the centre of the photograph.

Photograph by Phillip Timms.

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1906-1910 -- Sechelt's First Hotel

The first hotel in Sechelt was opened by Herbert Whitaker on July 1, 1899 and destroyed by fire on June 1, 1914 after he had sold it in 1913 to the Canadian European Investment Corporation Ltd., a German syndicate. The west wing was added between 1906 and 1910. The small building at the rear on the right was the hotel heating plant and the other behind it on Cowrie Street was known as Cedar Grove Cottage.

Photograph by Phillip Timms, courtesy the Vancouver City Archives.

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1906-1910 -- Rear View of Herbert Whitaker's Buildings

Looking out to Trail Bay down Wharf Road the buildings from left to right are the third store and post office, erected in 1906, with two top floors added as an annex to the first hotel on the far right. After the 1914 fire burned down the first hotel this became the second hotel which also burned down in 1936. The small building between the trees on the wharf is a shed, the building to its right is Herbert Whitaker's first store and post office which may have been the first building on Trail Bay outside of the Sechelt Band Reserve buildings. The second store and post office with outside stairway to the upper floor existed in 1902 and perhaps as early as 1899. It became the first school in 1912 and first telegraph office later that year then it was incorporated into the fourth store built around 1915 or 1916. The last building on the right was Sechelt's first hotel opened on July 1, 1899. A west wing, added around 1910, almost doubled the original size. The hotel burned down on June 1, 1914. The low building behind the hotel was a heating plant. The ditch on the left side of the road was a drainage ditch as the land behind the buildings was a bog where cranberries grew profusely.

Photographer unknown.

See also oversize photograph 6.15.25

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c1910 -- Sechelt's first hotel, built by Herbert Whitaker in 1899, with a west wing added in the early 1900s, burned down in 1914. The small building behind on the right was the heating plant. The two storey house in the trees was the home of H.J. Haslett and his wife Evelyn, one of Herbert Whitaker's sisters.

Photographer unknown

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1907-1914 -- Herbert Whitaker's first hotel was built in 1899 and destroyed by fire in 1914. The tilted building was Whitaker's boat house. Our Lady of Lourdes Church replaced the Sechelt First Nation's imposing Our Lady of the Rosary Church after it burned in 1906.

Photographer unknown