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1920s -- Dance pavilion and tea room, left of the totem poles and west of Wharf Road, was built by Herbert Whitaker in the early 1920s and bought by the Union Steamship Company in 1926, after his death, along with all his holdings in Sechelt. The totem poles, erected between 1927 and 1929, were commissioned by the Union Steamship Company. They were carved in Sechelt under the direction of Paul Weenah of Rivers Inlet. They were removed to Bowen Island in 1955. The two storey building on the right was Herbert Whitaker's second store, built probably around 1899, and was also Sechelt's first school (1912) and first telegraph office (1913-1914). It was attached to his fourth store after its construction in 1915-1916.

Photographer unknown

See also oversize photograph 6.15.43