Hotel Squamish is #4 on the Squamish Heritage Walking Tour. Originally called the King George Hotel it was built in 1910 and was popular among the loggers looking for a place to stay when they weren’t working at the camps. As the plaque says, you should look out for the separate entrances for ‘Men’ and ‘Ladies and Escorts’ as back in the day it would have been a no, no for a woman to go in alone.
We lived at the hotel because there wasn’t any furnished house, shack or rooms to be had in the place,… Though there was a parlour upstairs, all shiny leather and cleanliness, and it would have been more ladylike, I suppose, for me to have sat there, Jack and I spent most of our time in the office, where the largest pot-bellied stove I’ve ever seen anywhere gave out comfortable warmth and everyone, including the Indian Agent, local police, loggers and railway officials, foregathered to gossip.
Gwen Cash – I Like British Columbia (Macmillan, 1939)