Davidson
Delisle
The Empire Hotel was built on the corner of Railway and Main in 1908 by Andrew Lunn. It burned down in February 1927.
Dundurn
The
American Hotel was built in 1904. It's name was changed to the Commercial Hotel in 1910 by owner Edwin Morgan. Mr. Swan Olsen, a farmer, built the Wascana Hotel in 1909. Olsen sold the hotel to Bill Wilson, a Scotsman also known as "Whisky Bill," in 1913. Wilson and his wife Margaret ran the Wascana Hotel until 1951.
Earl Grey
The Hotel Grey was built in 1906. It was destroyed by fire in 1924.
Elfros
Elstow
Sam Vigeant built the hotel in Elstow in 1908. Sam and his wife Florence came west from Trois-Rivieres, Quebec in 1885.They operated the hotel with the help of their son, Louis, who married one of the hotel employees, Bertha Lean, in 1911. The hotel was destroyed by fire on February 12, 1917. while under the ownership of the George W. Dunn family. When the fire broke out, the proprietors' 9-month-old son Frederick Dunn was asleep on the second floor. Anthony Leier of Allan, who was in Elstow for a curling bonspiel, attempted to rescue the baby, but was unsuccessful. The building collapsed, and both Leier and the child lost their lives."
Source Source: Memories Forever: Elstow and District, 1900-1983, p.8.
Englefeld
In 1909, Matthew and Gerry Herriges built the Englefeld Hotel, featuring a massive ornamental mirror in the tavern that had been shipped by train from Winnipeg. Tragedy struck in 1911 when diphtheria broke out in the hotel. Two of Matthew Herriges' children, Helen age 2 and Matthew Jr. age 11 died from the disease, as did a hotel employee, Maria Schmitz.
Source: Fields of Prosperity: A History of Englefeld, 1903-1987.
Eyebrow
Fielding
Built around 1910, the Fielding Hotel burned down in 1922, along with most of the buildings on the town's main street.
Francis
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| Francis Hotel under construction, 1907. Source |
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| New Francis Hotel, 1907. Source |
Frobisher
John Klaholz came to Canada from Germany in the late 1800s. He and his wife Feona moved to Frobisher in 1900 and built the Imperial Hotel in 1903. The Klaholz family operated the hotel into the 1930s.
