6.5.89 1906 -- Left to right: Sechelt's: 1. First hotel built by Herbert Whitaker in 1899. 2. His second store and Post Office, also built in 1899, became Sechelt's first school in 1912 and first telegraph office in 1913. 3. Herbert Whitaker's first store and Post Office, established March 1, 1896 4. Herbert Whitaker's barn built on the east side of a trail to Porpoise Bay; it later became Wharf Road. 5. Herbert Whitaker's third store and Post Office, built in 1906, with two floors above used as an annex to the hotel. The whole building became a hotel after the first burned down in 1914. Photograph by Fricke and Schenk See also oversize photograph 6.15.40
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