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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
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