Nickel Range Hotel
First established as the White House Hotel in 1886 and replaced by a brick building in 1915, the Nickel Range Hotel operated from 1915 to 1976. Ernest Hemingway (1923), Lester B. Pearson, John Diefenbaker, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (1923) have all stayed at the Nickel Range (when the King and Queen visited in 1939, it is said that all of the bar glasses were enthusiastically smashed against the wall). The Nickel Range was a five-storey grand hotel with a ballroom on the second floor.
White House Hotel on left, early 1900’s (L)
