BUSINESS-GRAND UNION HOTEL
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Name BUSINESS-GRAND UNION HOTEL Gender Unknown Person ID I3241 Whitewater Region Early Families Last Modified 10 Dec 2024
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Photos GRAND UNION HOTEL Cobden Hotel
Photographed by Fay BennettGRAND UNION HOTEL
Photographed by Fay BennettGRAND UNION HOTEL
Photograph from the Laidlaw Morrison collection of Helen Armstrong, held by Terri Saunders
Documents Jackson, Albert obituary
The Ottawa Journal, Feb 6, 1937 p. 35CHx-Grand Union Hotel, corner of John & Bromley St. Cobden
Newspaper clipping from The Whitewater Cobden Sun June 6, 2012Jackson, Amy obituary
Newspaper clipping from the scrapbook collections of Lena ByceCHx-McCoy House Sold
newspaper article - The Cobden Sun Sep 12 1919 p. 4GRAND UNION HOTEL robbed
Newspaper clipping from the Laidlaw Morrison collection of Helen Armstrong, held by Terri Saunders
BUSINESS-GRAND UNION HOTEL for sale from the newspaper files- Ottawa Daily Citizen Oct 31, 1895 'Cobden News' - busy village; 9-10 fine brick houses nearing completion (in a prior post on dating homes in Cobden, we know that a number were built c1895-1905. This tells us that a significant number were built in 1895); other local news
Ottawa Daily Citizen Oct 31, 1895 - Cobden News
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Notes - Summary by Fay Bennett
Grand Union Hotel was built c1876-78 by Alexander Hudson (G.Wallace, Cobden Then & Now)
Hotel purchased by Thomas W. Patterson in 1897 (G.Wallace, Cobden Then & Now)
Later leased by Michael Walsh; Daniel Roach
Purchased by the Jackson family in 1919 - From Cobden Then & Now p. 25
Cobden's oldest building except the Blackwell building was the Grand Union Hotel built by Alex Hudson c1876-78
Early owners were T.W.Patterson bought in 1897, Mickey Walsh leased, Mr. Roach leased, and since 1919 the Jackson family. - from Cobden Then & Now
Guest Register form Grand Union Hotel, 1905 listed the following Cobden Businesses:
Bank of Ottawa,
Ed Tuffy, General merchant & grain dealer
Fraser Bros furniture store
R.S.Boyle, watchmaker, jeweller & optician
R.T.Greene, tailor
J.E.Ross, general merchant
Alex McDonald, Jeweller & optician
Delahey general Store
N.S.Berry, general butcher
A.H.Box, druggist
- Summary by Fay Bennett