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6.7.101
1935
-- Mrs. Alice French (pictured on the left), operated Sechelt's first
lending library and gift shop in this building which was behind the present
day Shell gas station on the north east corner of Cowrie Street and Trail
Avenue. She served in the WAAF in WW1 and married Canadian service man
Frank French, coming to Canada in 1919. She helped the Rev. Owen Derby
put out The Eagle, Sechelt's first newspaper, and later wrote articles
for The Coast News and Peninsula Times newspapers, served on the first
School Board, was a charter member of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch
140 and a member of the Rebekah Lodge. She died in 1973. For additional
photographs see The Betty Twigg Fonds.
Photographer
unknown. See also oversize photograph 6.15.117
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