6.5.42

1914 -- The fire has consumed almost all the hotel building.

Charles Bradbury, Sechelt's first telegraph operator, took this, the last in a series of photographs of the fire that destroyed Sechelt's first hotel on June 1, 1914. Herbert Whitaker had sold his hotel and other properties in 1913 to the Canadian-European (German) Investment Corporation Ltd. but later regained possession of them due to the 1914-1918 war.

Photograph by Charles Bradbury

See oversize photograph 6.15.31