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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.