6.5.60

1936 -- This fireplace is all that remains of Sechelt's second hotel after a fire on July 26-27th 1936, destroyed the building.

The cottage immediately to the left of the fireplace first housed women who worked in the hotel in Herbert Whitaker's time then employees of the Union Steamship Company. It was moved in 1981 to the south side of Mermaid Street and was still there in 2008. The building with the four posts was used as a telephone office, bank, Sechelt's municipal hall and drive-in restaurant.

Photographer unknown

See also oversize photographs 6.15.37 and 6.15.38