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Date unknown -- Mrs. Alice French, seated centre, resided in Sechelt from 1919 until her death in 1973. She started Sechelt's first lending library in her small store behind her husband Frank French's gas station on the corner of Cowrie Street and Trail Avenue, which she helped him operate. She was on Sechelt's first School Board, wrote for local newspapers, was a charter member of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 140 (she served in the WAAF in WW1), and a member of the Rebekah Lodge.

Photograph probably by the Peninsula Times newspaper and courtesy the Alsgard family