WP2022 WPG - ST B - HOTEL ST. BONIFACE ST BONIFACE HOTEL

So was it later rebuilt as the current St. Boniface Hotel at Dumoulin and St-Joseph, a block away? Or was the (rather obvious and generic) name just re-used?

I remember there was a Winnipeg city councillor named Betty Ireton in the 1970s ... maybe a relative of the owner.

I really haven't had much success at finding out about the building online. I may have to resort to a trip to the library or Archives.

Also, thanks for that interesting Ireton connection.

The Tribune yielded up the following:

1913 - sold for $18,000 and then advertised for sale in October for "whatever can reasonably be gotten".
1917 - hotel advertised, located at corner of Notre Dame and Tache
1918 - St. Boniface Hotel on Notre Dame, described as a notorious drinking spot (or "thirst emporium"), converted into a convent (due to prohibition - the Tribune found this quite amusing)
1920 - a hotel, described as "the large C.N.R. hotel" at corner of Tache and Dumoulin sold to Club Belge, to be renovated for club purposes [this was a different hotel, I guess]
1928 - owner George Ireton retires, according to his obituary from 1949
1930 - St. Boniface Hotel described as located at 171 Dumoulin, presumably where it is today
1949 - hotel sold to Charlie Krupp of the Radio Oil Co. (remember the "ROCO" gas stations?)
1949 - Ireton dies

I didn't see the missing link between the two hotels by this name ... it looks as though Ireton owned them both, so they would have been the same business. But I didn't see any reference to the opening of the second hotel at 171 Dumoulin. No doubt it's there somewhere.

Okay - the Free Press adds quite a bit. The 171 Dumoulin location was called the Jean Block when it was built c. 1880. It was a boys' school in the 1880s until the school relocated to St. Boniface College and then became apartments. Around 1912-13, it became the St. George Hotel and was re-named the St. Boniface Hotel in the 1920s. This is according to a Free Press article from October 28, 1970, on which morning the Hotel burned to the ground. The building that it occupies now must be the replacement. So maybe the story was that Ireton bought the St. George and renamed it the St. Boniface at some point after the original St. Boniface, in your photo, had been sold to the nuns.

Wow! Great info.Thanks for all that work!

I was like a man possessed!

(... and I am glad he was!)