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1960s-1970s -- Mr. Jack Mayne, a prominent early resident of Sechelt, had emigrated from England to Vancouver, served in the Canadian forces in WW1 and moved to Sechelt around 1927 where he worked in the post office under Mr. Robert Hackett. From his house on Cowrie Street where he worked as a Notary Public he and his wife Carrie ran a boarding house and rented out summer cabins. He was very active in various organizations on the coast being a founding member of the Sechelt Royal Canadian Legion, involved in the Catholic Church in Sechelt and an elected Trustee on the Board of the Victorian Order of Nurses.

Photograph courtesy the Sechelt Peninsula Times and the Alsgard family.