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IN PICTURES: Construction of the Prince Edward Hotel

The Prince Edward Hotel at 100

By: Grant Hamilton

Saturday, Jun. 2, 2012 at 8:58 AM | Comments: 0

Brandon archives have several photos that show the construction of the Prince Edward Hotel. It took about two years to erect, between 1910–12, opening its doors in June after several delays.

The Canadian Northern railway depot, along Ninth Street, was completed first. The six-storey hotel, facing Princess Avenue, was attached.

Before the Prince Edward Hotel was built, there was this. It's Brandon, 1892, looking southwest from Seventh Street and Princess Avenue. The Salvation Army Citadel (in background, top-right) was then on what would be the site of Prince Edward Hotel. Notice then-new City Hall, with its tower in front and opera house behind. The Beaubier Hotel, then one of the city's finest lodgings, is on the right of the photo, near centre. The home in the foreground is now the site of the new YMCA building. (From The Assiniboine Basin, by Martin Kavanagh).

Above is a page from the Henderson Directory from Brandon in 1906. It shows a blacksmith and a repair shop near the site of what would soon become the Prince Edward Hotel. The hotel would later get an address of 908 Princess Ave. (Peel's Prairie Provinces)

An architect's drawing of the proposed Canadian Northern Hotel and Station — later named the Prince Edward Hotel — seen from the northeast. A version of this sketch was published at least twice in the Brandon Daily Sun: June 3, 1910 and again Aug. 14, 1911. (Photo courtesy the SJ McKee Archives / Brandon University)

Crews pave Ninth Street north of Rosser Avenue in September 1911 as the Prince Edward Hotel rises in the background. Also in this photo is the King George Cafe, the A.E. McKenzie Building and the Clement Block. (Photo courtesy the SJ McKee Archives / Brandon University)

Looking south along Ninth Street, this 1911 photo shows the Prince Edward Hotel under construction, as well as City Hall and, at extreme left, St. Paul’s Church. (I.C. Barton, photo courtesy the SJ McKee Archives / Brandon University)

The Prince Edward Hotel in Brandon, under construction in 1911. This photo was published in "Brandon: A city with a great future, where ambition will succeed," a promotional pamphlet produced in about 1912 by the Brandon Commerical Bureau. (Peel's Prairie Provinces)

Workers pose on wooden scaffolding during the construction of the Prince Edward Hotel in Brandon, in August 1911. The attached train station to the south appears nearly complete. Note "The Brandon Roller Rink" to the west. (This print is from the S.A. Magnacca Research Centre at the Daly House Museum, but identical prints also exist at the SJ McKee Archives and in the Brandon Sun files)

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