Formerly located at the northeast corner of Railway Street North and Beverage Avenue in Pilot Mound, in the Municipality of Louise, a two-storey wood frame building was built for hotelier Charles Carruthers (?-?) who operated it as the Queens Hotel. It was eventually sold to Jack Dew (?-?) then in 1906 to Arthur Henry Gibbs (1872-1941).
Closed in 1916 due to the First World War, in 1918 following the return of Arthur Gibbs’ son William “Bill” Gibbs from the war, the former hotel was converted into an automotive repair garage and service station. The front portion of the main floor housed a showroom for selling Ford automobiles while the rear had space for auto repair. The second floor housed office space for the business. Two gasoline pumps on the street in front of the building sold Imperial Oil Limited (later Esso) brand gasoline.
The business closed in 1982 and the building was demolished in the late 1980s.
Queens Hotel (1908) by Winnipeg Photo Company
Source: Queens Hotel, Pilot Mound, Library and Archives Canada
Gibbs Brothers Garage and Service Station (no date)
Source: Reunion, Pilot Mound 50, District 75, page 59.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.20324, W98.89238
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Manitoba Business: The Imperial Oil Company Limited / Imperial Oil Limited
Reunion, Pilot Mound 50, District 50 by Pilot Mound Re-Union Committee, 1954, page 59.
Prairie Pride Land by Louise History Book Committee, 1998, pages 46, 62, 417.
This page was prepared by Jordan Makichuk.
Page revised: 13 November 2024
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