HOTEL NAME ADDRESS PROPRIETOR CURRENT USE Arlington Hotel, 45 Finkle R. Ritter Parking lot Buckingham Hotel 390-394 Dundas H.A. Wills Masonic Temple Caister House, 441 Dundas Lot Strode Bk. Of Commerce Central Hotel, 539 Dundas A.J. Branton Canada Trust Commercial Hotel, 15 Graham Frank N. Scott Studio Nine CPR Hotel, 206 Winnett Unknown 1950s aptms. Hotel Oxford, NW cor. Finkle/Oxford Charles A. Pyne Shades of Green International Hotel, 614 Dundas H & F Matthews Strip mall. New Dufferin, 476 Peel St. George Douglas Royal Bk.Centre North American Hotel, 347 Dundas Peter Mitchell Beckers Rapson House, Victoria St.S. C.E. Rapson 'The Zoo' Royal Hotel, SE cor. Dundas/Brock P. Farrell Canada Trust
Extra Information From Quiz Committee:
The City’s hotels had many clients, even though at upwards of $1 a night (1903 Arlington Hotel advertisement) prices were more expensive than in a rooming
house. Commercial travellers who came to town by train, would stay at a hotel while visiting their retail clients, and might also rent the hotel’s ‘Sample
Room’ in which to display their samples. Many hotels had their own livery stables for the horses and carriages of area residents as they came in to do
weekly shopping. Certainly, most hotels had a bar. The bar of the North American Hotel was well-known as the place where many a local farmer relaxed
on a Saturday market day while his wife did the shopping. Unless his wife drove, it is fortunate that the horse usually knew its way home when it came
time for Dad to take the family back. Prohibition in Ontario from 1916/17 to 1927 killed the bars and many smaller hotels folded.
Sources:
- W.J. McDonald, ’70 Years Down Memory Lane’ (Presentation to Oxford
Historical Society, Sep 27, 1974)
- Cyclopedia Canadiana, 1958 (Oxford Historical Society)