Commercial Boom - Buildings

Buildings

The Landing was abustle with spring activity [1911] and the Company was the centre of all movement. I went into the office where two men were standing over a blueprint. It was a plan of the newly conceived townsite. "There's a corner lot you can have for three hundred dollars. In time it will be worth three thousand." If he had said "thirty thousand" he might have been nearer the mark. At that time I think I had enough money to buy up the whole townsite; but I am glad I did not, for then I might have become a multimillionaire, and such a fate I would not wish anyone. (Service, Robert. Ploughman to the Moon. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co.,1945. Cited in Athabasca Historical Society 1986, 117)

The Original Grand Union Hotel

Athabasca Land Co. advertisement for Gateway Heights

Map , Athabasca Landing, July 12, 1911.

Massey-Harris farm implements

Northern news office

The United Church being built

Interview clip with C.J. Raynor Whitely, talks about land speculation and the commercial boom, 1911. Athabasca Archives, audio tape #8, accession #85.285.

The Empire store and owner C.A. Parker

Hudson's Bay Company Store

The Johnston home and bake shop on Skinner Street

Drugstore, Mr. H.F. Cull, druggest

Cull's drugstore, meatmarket, hardware store

R.C. Knowlton, jeweler

The new Grand Union Hotel

All Saints Anglican church

Pool hall, Grand Union Hotel, M. Brown

Farrell & Daigneault Store, Athabasca

The new Imperial Bank of Canada building.

Interior of the All Saints Anglican church

All Saints Anglican church

All Saints Anglican church

William Rennison's general store and post office

Athabasca meat market, 1911

Cote and Smith, surveyer office

Royal Bank of Canada, 1913

Auto party at the Grand Union Hotel

R.C. Farrel's general store, 1909

Brault and Viens, general merchants, 1914.

. . . My Dad and Mother had the first restaurant or boarding house, as it was called and was headquarters for the stage and mail route. We also looked after the spare horses used on the stagecoach. This building was located at the present site of the Macleod store. The barn which housed the horses was in the alley behind the restaurant. Scottie Willey, his memoir of his first years at the Landing. (Gregory, Athabasca Landing: An Illustrated History, 78)