BUSINESS-MCCOY HOUSE (HOTEL)

• Name	BUSINESS-MCCOY HOUSE (HOTEL)
  Birth	c1880
  Gender	Unknown
  Death	1926
  Person ID	I3240	Whitewater Region Early Families
  Last Modified	10 Dec 2024

  
  

• Documents » Slide Show		McCoy House for sale Newspaper clipping, The Ottawa Citizen, Jun 17, 1910
  		Telephone established in Cobden, 1892 Newspaper clipping from the collection of Neeta Moore
  		CHx-McCoy House - application for licence transfer The Cobden Sun, April 2, 1908
  		CHx-McCoy House Sold newspaper article - The Cobden Sun Sep 12 1919 p. 4
  		McCoy House leased by group from temperance league The Ottawa Citizen, Jul 21, 1910, p 12
  		McCoy House burns The Ottawa Journal, April 5, 1926 p. 9
  		BUSINESS-MCCOY HOUSE (HOTEL) under new management - Tuffy & Dunlap
  		BUSINESS-MCCOY HOUSE (HOTEL) burned
  		Liquor Licences issued to local businesses (taverns/hotels) Newspaper clipping

  
  

• Notes

  Summary from newspaper clippings written by Fay Bennett The McCoy Hotel aka The McCoy House was located on Main St., Cobden just west of the railway tracks. John McCoy came to Cobden c 1880. John McCoy died Mar 5, 1908 and in April 1908, Mary McCoy, widow of John McCoy applied for transfer of licence to herself. In April 1910, the Village of Cobden went ?dry? and both hotels, The Grand Union and The McCoy House, closed their doors. In June 1910, an advertisement in the Ottawa Citizen listed the McCoy House for sale. It was described as having 20 bedrooms, large dining room, sample and waiting rooms, good stable and shed accommodation. It was known to be the hotel to host the commercial trade, during their stay in Cobden. A group of temperance league investors leased the McCoy House in July, 1910 and re-opened it. Mr. John Devine managed the hotel for 7 years (c1912-1919) until it was sold by the McCoy Estate to Mr. Dan Roach in Sept 1919. The hotel burned April 4, 1926 when owned by James Mallard. 1877 Three new buidings are being erected in Cobden on the road leading to Douglas and Osceola. (One of these was the Propect House and another was probably McCoy Hotel). Cobden Then & Now, p. 123