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pre-1904 or 1906 -- Sechelt's First Hotel

The hotel, built by Herbert Whitaker in 1899, had twenty rooms for holiday visitors until between 1906 and 1910 it was enlarged by adding a west wing with an additional eighteen rooms. Fence was built to keep out sheep. A fire on June 1, 1914 destroyed the whole building. The building on the far left was Herbert Whitaker's first revenue cottage `Cottage #1' also known as the Marpole Cottage as it was first rented to the Vancouver pioneer Marpole family.

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