Gainsborough
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Crowd gathered outside the newly built Riverside Hotel, 1905. Source |
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Riverside Hotel, c. 1905. Source |
Girvin
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King Edward Hotel, c. 1912; built in 1907. Source |
Glen Ewen
In 1907, George Reading "Tony" Wincott owned the Imperial Hotel in Glen Ewen. Born in England, Wincott came to Saskatchewan from Ontario in 1896. While working for a horse trader in Montana, it was said he looked like a Mexican to he was nicknamed Tony. While operating the Imperial Hotel, Wincott raised Saint Bernard dogs which won may prizes in shows across Canada. In December of 1908, he married Caroline Erickson who had worked in the dining room of the hotel. Their son George was born in the hotel in 1910. Their second son Alusym was born two years later.
Goodwater
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Goodwater Hotel, c. 1910. Source |
Mrs. Elizabeth (aka Betty Ann) McMickin built the hotel in Goodwater in 1910 when she was about 55 years old. (She may be one of the women shown in this photo, although they all appear to be fairly young.) Elizabeth and James McMicken, of Irish ancestry, came to Saskatchewan from Ontario, via Manitoba, in about 1905. They farmed in the Assiniboia district for several years. James and the six McMickin children moved to the United States at some point. In 1914, Elizabeth rented to hotel to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Foss and returned to the States where her husband was farming. After he died of smallpox in 1919, Elizabeth returned to Goodwater to operate the hotel again. Her son Hunter came with her. Her other two sons and three daughters remained in Montana. It was said that Mrs. McMickin was a very good cook, pastry being her specialty. Inn 1920, Hunter McMickin married Hild Bruning who worked in the hotel. In 1928, Mrs. McMickin sold the Goodwater Hotel and moved to California, where she died at the age of 95.
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Gravelbourg
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Hotel (probably the Cecil), c. 1920. Note the "honey wagon" at rear. Source |
The Cecil Hotel was destroyed by fire in 1926. The owner, Mrs. Larochelle, had made a fire on the kitchen stove to heat some water to do some washing. She then went upstairs to clean rooms when she discovered the fire in the kitchen. She escaped the hotel with only her clothes. The hotel was reduced to ashes in about an hour's time.
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Guernsey
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Hotel Guernsey in background, n.d. Source | | |
Gull Lake
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The Lakeview and the Clarendon hotels, c. 1910. Source |
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Lakeview Hotel, c. 1910. |
The three-storey Lakeview hotel and the two-storey Clarendon Hotel were both built in 1906. The Lakeview, built by John Rushford, housed a bar, a barber shop, a dining room, and - for a short time - a branch of the Union Bank. Bert Jacobs built the Clarendon, which also had a bar. The Lakeview Hotel burned down in June of 1921 at 3:00 in the morning, half an hour after a dance had ended in the hall on the main floor of the hotel.
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Hanley
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Saskatchewan Hotel, c. 1910. Source |
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Saskatchewan Hotel, 1908, Source |
The Saskatchewan Hotel in Hanley was built by John James Mitchell between 1905 and 1908. The hotel suffered from neglect during Prohibition years, but was revived under the ownership of Herbert G. Budd from 1928 to 1944. The third storey of this hotel was removed in 1970.
Hawarden
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Hawarden Hotel on right, c. 1915. Source |
John Van Leary built the hotel in Hawarden in 1909. It was origially called the Mary Edger Hotel. Van Leary died in 1910, and his wife Lena remarried Harry Crompton. Harry was killed overseas in 1916 while fighting with the Canadian Armed Forces during the First World War. Twice widowed, Lena continued to live in the Hawarden Hotel until 1956, when she went into a nursing home. She died in 1962 at age 92. The hotel building was sold to Mr.and Mrs. T. Riley in 1960, and burned down shortly afterwards.
Hazenmore
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Vendome Hotel, c. 1912. source |
Hughton
Imperial
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Imperial Hotel, c. 1912. Source |
The hotel in Imperial was built in 1910 by Harry Webster and Jack Davey. According to the Imperial local history book, the hotel was comfortable with carpet - green with pink cabbage roses - on the stairs and in the living room, and velvet curtains at the windows. There were challenges to operating the Imperial Hotel, including "boisterous and noisy railroad workers," inexperienced help, and, most troublesome, "the attractive, well-dressed ladies that seemed to appear at mealtime, climb the open stair, and draw a large male crowd in the evening."
Source, p.375.
Ituna
The 40-room Carlton Hotel was built at Ituna in 1908 by either T. P. Jenner, a builder and contractor, or Frank X. Poitras, general merchant. This hotel was destroyed by fire in 1926.
©Joan Champ, 2015
I have many good pictures of the old Manitou Hotel at Young Sk.I would like to put on your web page but do not know how . The town of Young once had two railways CN CP and the two rail lines crossed over each other by way of having a rail diamond with a Diamond house to switch from cp to cn tracks. I have many more pictures and information of the town of Young I would like to share with you my email is kelvinandvyenda@sasktel.net
ReplyDeleteThanks! I will definitely email you. As you can see from my blog article about the fire that destroyed the Young hotel, I haven't got any good photos of that building. http://hotelhistories.blogspot.ca/2011/11/two-more-century-old-hotels-burn-stenen.html
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