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circa 1907 -- German Count Gustav Von Alvensleben married British Columbian Edith Westcott in 1907. Through the Count's real estate agency Herbert Whitaker sold his Sechelt holdings to a German syndicate in 1913. The Von Alvenslebens fled to the USA in 1914 where he was interred in 1917 and died in Seattle in 1965.

Image A-1965 courtesy the Royal B.C. Museum, B.C. Archives