Winters Hotel

Winters Hotel Here’s the Hotel Winters on a postcard, probably from around 1910. It’s a hand coloured black and white photograph, so the bricks haven’t really changed colour.

You can see that most of the building looks as solid today as when W T Whiteway designed and supervised the construction in 1907. These days it’s a Single Room Occupancy residence for low-income residents. There’s some confusion over who built the hotel. There’s general agreement it was a Mrs Winters, and Avis Winters, wife of Richard was living with her husband in the city in 1891. In 1906 she’s

listed as the widow of Richard, and living on Hornby Street. Some references suggest her husband, William, built the hotel for her, but there’s no sign of a William Winters in the city – it’s probably a confusion with William Winter who owned the Granville Cafe. Richard Winters was from Nova Scotia, and Avis was from Ontario. Richard was a barber in Victoria in 1884, but was on the Vancouver voting list in 1886 as a tenant of Jonathan Miller, and in 1888 applied for a licence for a saloon on Dupont Street (today’s East Pender). A further confusion is created by the adverts for the new hotel which suggest the proprietors were C N Owen & Co - but they probably just ran it on for Mrs Winters. In 1908 and 1909 she ran a to***co shop and a pool room in the retail space under the hotel with her nephew, Thomas Stevenson. Mrs Winters seems to have done well enough with the hotel, which was $1 a day on the European Plan but $2 on the American Plan (with meals). In 1911 she had Somervell and Putnam design a house for her in Point Grey.

Welcome back, Gastown Steam Clock, we missed you!!!
01/22/2015

Welcome back, Gastown Steam Clock, we missed you!!!

Great news for Gastown, the Flying Pig takes over Abbott and Water:http://scoutmagazine.ca/2013/02/01/diner-the-flying-p...
02/02/2013

Great news for Gastown, the Flying Pig takes over Abbott and Water:

http://scoutmagazine.ca/2013/02/01/diner-the-flying-pig-to-open-in-the-old-chronic-tacos-spot-in-gastown-this-spring/

by Andrew Morrison | 102 Water St. may be one of the better addresses in Gastown, but I think it’s also one of the most abused. It’s been at least six restaurants since its days as the lobby of the old Winters Hotel (Vallarta, Daiwa Sushi, etc). Maybe even more. Its most recent tenant was Chronic Ta...

10/14/2012

Wed, Oct 10 - A leading magazine aimed at young men has ranked Gastown among the world's most stylish neighbourhoods. Anne Drewa reports.

Here they are:http://nikadesign.ca/
08/22/2012

Here they are:
http://nikadesign.ca/

Custom, handmade shoes in Gastown, Vancouver. Located on 205 Abbott Street, Nika is a small shop with great products. Come in to check out the full range of mens and womens shoes, bags, coats and accessories.

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203 Abbott Street
Vancouver, BC
V6B2K7

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+16046835403

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