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1902 -- Coloured photograph of 'Sechelt in 1902' painted by Henry de Forest and said to have been 'given' to Bert Whitaker in lieu of payment of de Forest's hotel bill. When the village of Sechelt opened its new municipal hall in 1956 Geoffrey Whitaker, grandson of Bert Whitaker, presented the de Forest painting of Sechelt's first hotel to the village. Twenty years later the city fathers took it down and Ada Dawe placed it in the Sechelt Public Library. Henry de Forest, 1860-1924, was active in Vancouver art circles circa 1900 and later.

Photographs of painting by Mary K. Pellat