Continental Hotel (Saskatoon)

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Hotel built in 1904, possibly by Chinese immigrant workers. The initial use of the building was unknown. Documents show in 1906 it was a frame "false front" structure with a sign that read "Kerr . . . Committee Rooms." By 1909, the building housed a Northern Bank and a liquor store, possibly Strickland's Ltd. Around 1911, the structure was likely used as an annex building for the Empire Hotel, housing staff and storing inventory.

Around 1916 the building on Second Avenue started being used as a hotel, taking the name Great West Rooming House. Fire destroyed much of it in 1921, but it reopened as the Great West Hotel in 1922. It was in business through 1932. From 1933 to 1966, the site was known as the Yale Hotel. Records indicate the Continental Hotel took over the building in 1967 and operated until 2007.

It was purchased in 2008 by Mark Bobyn and has been vacant ever since.
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In 2010, sketches were uncovered behind old lath and plaster in the basement. They were done by a Chinese man named Ma Tee Shung, likely an immigrant labourer from the early 1900s.
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