The District of Sechelt is centrally located on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. Sechelt is therefore the service centre for the Sunshine Coast. Sechelt covers approximately 4,008 hectares of land, extending from, but not including the communities of Halfmoon Bay and Roberts Creek. The Sunshine Coast is a region of the southern mainland coast of British Columbia, on the eastern shore of the Strait of Georgia, and just northwest of Greater Vancouver. ... Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Splendour without diminishment) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Lieutenant Governor Iona Campagnolo Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Area 944,735 km² (5th) - Land 925,186 km² - Water 19,549 km² (2. ... There are several places around the globe that use the name Sunshine Coast. ...
By 1972, the organization was known as the Sechelt & District Chamber of Commerce.
The objective of the Sechelt & District Chamber of Commerce shall be to promote and improve trade and commerce and the economic, civic and social welfare of Sechelt, and the surrounding District.
The Sechelt & District Chamber of Commerce shall be politically non-partisan and non-sectarian and shall not lend its support to any candidate for public office.
Sechelt is the cultural centre of the Southern Sunshine Coast and home to the Sechelt Nation’s awe-inspiring House of hewhiwus (House of Chiefs).
Sechelt itself is built on a sandbar barely a kilometre wide that lies between Sechelt Inlet and the Straits of Georgia.
Sechelt is home to the nationally acclaimed Festival of Written Arts held in mid August and also home to the Rockwood Centre Storytelling Festival held on the first weekend of October.
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