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1930s-1950 -- Robert Simpson Hackett was hired by Herbert Whitaker in 1924 as an accountant to run his Sechelt Seaside Resort Company. When Herbert died Robert was then employed by its successor the Union Estates Limited, part of the Union Steamship Company, to supervise the store, hotel, dance pavilion, bath house (later a restaurant), boat and cottage rentals, tennis and badminton courts and picnic grounds at both Selma Park and Sechelt resorts. Robert was also Sechelt's postmaster from 1928 until around 1950, he died in 1951. The photographs are of Mr. and Mrs. Hackett, their son Robert M. and daughter-in-law Jeanie and other prominent Sechelt residents of the time.

Photograph by Ballentine, Gibsons