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Beaubier Hotel Photo Gallery
The barroom of the Beaubier Hotel.
(Colin Corneau/Brandon Sun)
A passerby pauses in front of the shuttered Beaubier Hotel in early August. Fences went up at the site in advance of this weekend's demolition of the building.
(Colin Corneau/Brandon Sun)
Letters, notes and other mementos from the people who stayed in the Beaubier Hotel in its final weeks lie abandoned in a room, after the downtown fixture was closed off.
(Colin Corneau/Brandon Sun)
The meter has run out on the Beaubier Hotel after 115 years at the corner of Eighth Street and Princess Avenue.
(Colin Corneau/Brandon Sun)
The main sign from the Beaubier Hotel is removed in April during its long journey to demolition. The hotel, built in its current location in 1893, is slated to come down this weekend.
(Colin Corneau/Brandon Sun)
A man takes signs and fixtures from one of the Beaubier Hotel buildings during a garage sale at the hotel in April.
(Colin Corneau/Brandon Sun)
The Beaubier Hotel, built in its current location at Eighth Street and Princess Avenue in 1893, oversaw the evolution, change and decline of downtown Brandon. Now its demolition will help bring about what some see as a turning point in the area.
(Colin Corneau/Brandon Sun)
Graffiti left behind by the staff and patrons of the Beaubier Hotel in its beverage room.
(Colin Corneau/Brandon Sun)
A hallway in the abandoned Beaubier Hotel. For the people who stayed there throughout its 115-year history, the Beaubier sometimes led to better things or a path to nowhere.
(Colin Corneau/Brandon Sun)
The drawer holding the room keys in the Beaubier Hotel will be closed for good when the 115-year-old hotel is demolished Sunday morning.
(Colin Corneau/Brandon Sun)
An antique piano sits silently in the Beaubier Hotel's beverage room, after the downtown fixture was shuttered this month.
(Colin Corneau/Brandon Sun)
Herb Klassen sits in an abandoned beverage room at the Beaubier Hotel during a sale of its fixtures and furniture.
(Colin Corneau/Brandon Sun)
Trevor King was looking for a new start in life during his time at the Beaubier.
(Colin Corneau/Brandon Sun)
The common television room in the Beaubier Hotel's second floor. The rooms and layout of the hotel, built in its current location in 1893, are a reminder of society 115 years ago.
(Colin Corneau/Brandon Sun)
Sandra Mackie works the beer vendor booth at the Beaubier Hotel.
(Colin Corneau/Brandon Sun)
Lucinda Baker stands by the window in the room she's rented in the Beaubier Hotel for two years.
(Colin Corneau/Brandon Sun)
Ron Wilson tilts back a beer in the Beaubier Hotel's beverage room during the downtown hotel's last months.
(Colin Corneau/Brandon Sun)
Travelling evangelist Cheryl Topp comforts a Beaubier regular who reacted emotionally to the music played in the hotel's beverage room during an evening of Christian outreach in February.
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Travelling evangelist Cheryl Topp hugs an audience member and Beaubier regular during a session of Christian music and healing, in February.
(Colin Corneau/Brandon Sun)
A patron of the Beaubier Hotel's beverage room dozes off during a night of drinking, last February. The hotel was always a gathering place in its 115 year history, but its demographics changed as the hotel business evolved over the years.
(Colin Corneau/Brandon Sun)
Christine laughs while taking a break at the Beaubier Hotel, where she ran a restaurant for seven years.
"Over here it was a family affair. All the hotel staff - the front staff, the vendor staff and the restaurant staff worked as a unit. If one needed help, the other pitched in right away. If someone got sick, we all covered for one another. We'd help the person."
Lucinda Baker and Terry Teetaert talk in their room in the Beaubier Hotel. Baker, a former guard at the prison in Brandon, had lived in the Beaubier for two years.
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The bartender's dog gets a pat from a passerby in the Beaubier Hotel, in its last months of operation.
(Colin Corneau/Brandon Sun)
Workers from Cardinal Signs dispose of signs from the Beaubier Hotel during its long journey to demolition.
(Colin Corneau/Brandon Sun)
The hallway of the Beaubier Hotel, on the building's second floor. Hearkening back to the era it was built in, the hotel had communal bathrooms for residents and a common television room.
(Colin Corneau/Brandon Sun)
The lobby of the Beaubier Hotel sits vacant after closing its doors for good. The hotel, which first opened its doors at its current location in 1893, played host to vandals, squatters, and a police tactical squad honing its skills in its final days.
(Colin Corneau/Brandon Sun)
Ron Campbell ran the restaurant in the Beaubier Hotel for its last months. He also tended bar when needed, and had a small dog to keep him company sometimes when not at the restaurant.
(Colin Corneau/Brandon Sun)
A lone dress shoe remains in one of the rooms after the Beaubier Hotel shut its doors for good. After 115 years in its current location,
some remainders of the lives that lived out under its roof lingered.
(Colin Corneau/Brandon Sun)