Alexander Hotel & Staff, taken July 1, 1911
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- Fonds / Collection
- Wilkinson
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Date
- 1996-1997
- Accession Number
- 996.4
- Scope and Content
- This is an end view of the Alexander Hotel with the hotel staff silhouetted against the lake
- Fonds / Collection
- Wilkinson
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Fonds Number
- 018-96
- Item Number
- 1
- Accession Number
- 996.4
- Date
- 1996-1997
- Physical Description
- 5"x7" Photograph Reproduction, glued on 8"x10" cardboard frame
- Physical Condition
- Good
- History / Biographical
- Collected and catalogued by Pat Ammeter and Jean Bridge
- These pictures, scrapbooks, and papers were brought to us by Jay Wilkinson, son of Ken and Isabel Wilkinson, grandson of Ogden and Clara Wilkinson, and great-grandson of Alexandre and Adeline Loiselle
- Name Access
- W.P.M. Jarvis
- Alexandre Loiselle
- Subject Access
- Alexander Hotel
- Scope and Content
- This is an end view of the Alexander Hotel with the hotel staff silhouetted against the lake
- Someone is on the pier
- A buggy is sitting on the right
- Reflections of Sylvan Lake, p.64: In 1904 Mr. W.P.M. Jarvis bought land along the north-east shore and sold his first property to Mr. Loiselle who built the Alexander Hotel on it (site of the parking lot of the present golf course - Sylvan Lake Golf & Country Club). This hotel was equipped with a fine dining room and a very fancy bar where the liquor, which came in barrels, was sold by the shot at the brass foot rail. Mr. Loiselle built nearly a mile of sidewalk up to the station and, when the train was approaching, the engineer blew his whistle to alert the kitchen staff that business was at hand
- Reflections of Sylvan Lake, p. 280: This well-built hotel .... did very well as the railways were being constructed through Sylvan Lake and business was good. The Alex Loiselle family comprised the efficient management and staff. The hotel operated for 11 years, then was converted to apartments and, finally, destroyed by fire
- Notes
- Buildings - business - commercial - lodging - Alexander Hotel
- Site - Lakeshore Drive
- Transportation - buggy