Notes:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~idbounda/birthsfilm5.htm

Birth record found here

The Seattle Times, Friday, May 3, 1985, page D10
Robert Leroy CARMICHAEL
Of Bellevue, died May 1st, age 64. Husband of Bernadine. Father of Gail Shetler, of Delta Junction, Alaska; Roberta Carmichael, of Bellevue. One grandson. Brother of Maureen Swartz, of Los Angeles, Calif. Graveside gathering Saturday, 1 p. m., Sunset Hills Memorial Park in Bellevue, under direction of
GREEN'S BELLEVUE FUNERAL HOME
1215 140th Ave. S. E.

Family/Spouse: Bernadine Marie CHELLING. Bernadine was born on 5 Feb 1923 in Little Falls, Minnesota; died on 20 Aug 1988 in Overlake Hospital Medical Center, Bellevue, Washington; was buried in Sunset Hills Memorial Park, Bellevue, Washington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Leroy married Aylia Marie TALMADGE on 4 Sep 1915 in Spokane County, Washington. Aylia (daughter of Warren Emerson TALMADGE and Nancy SWAYZE) was born on 13 Nov 1895 in Washington; died on 23 Jan 1972 in Los Angeles, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Carmichael, Aylia M., passed away January 23, 1972, survived by son Robert Carmichael of Bellview, Wash., daughter Maureen Paquette of Inglewood.

Services private. In lieu of flowers, please contribute to National Arthritis Foundation. Armstrong Family, directors.

LA Times, January 25, 1972.

Notes:

Bonners Ferry Herald, Thursday January 6, 1944

W. E. Talmadge Passes Away

W.E. Talmadge, for many years the station agent of the Spokane
International Railway Co., passed away at his home yesterday morning,
death resulting from double pneumonia.
Funeral arrangements will be completed upon the arrival here of a
daughter, Mrs. A. F. Carmichael, of Beverly Hills, California. It is
probable that the services will be held Monday, January 10, at the Morse
funeral Home and it is planned to have the remains cremated in Spokane
and taken to West Union, Ill., for interment.
The deceased was born at West Union, Ill., on March 2, 1866. He
first came to this district some 30 years ago as an employee of the
Great Northern Railroad Co. On account of ill health, he retired as
station agent for the Spokane International Railway Co. about four years
ago.
He was married to Mrs. Lymann Bruce, at Libby, Montana, on March 3,
1933. He is survived by his widow and a daughter, Mrs. A. F.
Carmichael, of Beverly Hills, California, and three grandchildren,
Robert and john Carmichael, both serving in the Armed Forces, and Moreen
Carmichael.
He was a prominent member of the Knights of Pythias lodge and took an
active interest in the Kootenai Valley Commercial Club.
Mr. Talmadge is confined to her home with a severe attack of
pneumonia and her uncle, Wm. Gardiner, is in a critical condition,
having also been ill with pneumonia for more than a week.

Warren married Nancy SWAYZE on 24 Dec 1892 in Priest River, Bonner Co., Idaho. Nancy (daughter of Elias Coleman SWAYZE and Nancy CAMERON) was born on 10 Oct 1869 in near Victor, Iowa; died on 5 May 1947 in Los Angeles, California; was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Hines, Mrs. Nannie, beloved wife of Russell W. Hines, mother of Mrs. Aylia T. Carmichael, sister of Miss Sara E. Swayzie & Mrs. Annie May Petierson, grandmother of Mrs. Maureen Vaquette, John W. & Robert L. Carmichael, also survived by 1 great-grandson. Servies Thurs., 1:30 p.m., in the Wee Kirk o' the heather. Forest Lawn Mortuary in charge.

La Times, May 5, 1947, S. II, page 12

Notes:

Heritage On Main: The Former Dominion Hotel (The Blue Note Café) at 218-224 Main Street
Article by Laura McKay, on behalf of Heritage Winnipeg Corp.
Thank you to Greg Agnew, Heritage Winnipeg Board Member, for his assistance with images.

To follow up on this or any other articles on the blog, contact Heritage Winnipeg's Executive Director.

The Dominion Hotel, later known as the Blue Note Café, at 218-224 Main Street was demolished in 2011. The place where it stood remains empty, the silhouette still visible on the adjacent Winnipeg Hotel. Before it was an iconic hangout for Winnipeg musicians, the home of the Blue Note Café was everything from a hotel to a barbershop.

In 1872, the Hudson's Bay Company surrendered all but 450 acres of land to the Dominion of Canada. The remaining land was surveyed and sold off to form the town of "Selkirk" (not to be confused with the current city of Selkirk). Lot 18, where the Dominion Hotel was later built, was purchased in July of 1872 by Charles Garratt, of the Garratt House Hotel for $1250. Lots purchased along Main Street were also required to have a structure built on them worth at least $2000 within 18 months of purchase in the hope of building up the appearance of Main Street.

Garratt resold the land shortly after purchase to Elias Swayze (Swaze), who immediately began the construction of a hotel. The Dominion Hotel opened in 1873, the same year as the Garry House (Winnipeg Hotel) next door. Their locations were considered choice as the federal government had new Customs House and Land Office buildings planned for the York Avenue end of the block. At the end of the 19th century, it was also very common for people to more or less live in hotels, as immigrating populations struggled to find accommodations and traveling salesman made extended visits with their wares.

The newly built Dominion Hotel was a wooden structure with 22 rooms in addition to a large hall where 21 beds were set up. The building featured a 12 x 14ft parlour, an 18 x 20ft billiard room, and an 18 x 20ft bar room in addition to a 12 x 20ft kitchen. In the summer of 1873, Swayze briefly had a partner named Smith, but the relationship was short lived and he continued to run the business on his own.

On May 3, 1877, an arsonist set fire to the Kahler stable behind the hotel. The fire spreads and while the fire brigade does their best, the building is destroyed. Thankfully all of the patrons and their luggage made it out safely but without insurance, Swayze was unable or unwilling to rebuild. He sold the property to Joseph Kahler, owner of the stable that burned. He built a new hotel by the same name in the summer after the fire.

The new building was a 40 x 60ft, 2 1/2 storey wood frame structure with a prominent boom town front and a small porch running along a portion of the north side. A new stable was also added in 1878, presumable replacing the one that had burned the year before.

Kahler operated the hotel until 1884, when it briefly became the "Dominion Club" with the backing of a W. R. Strachan. It then once again became a hotel under J.K. Paisley (of the Paisley House Hotel) in 1886.

Hannah Kahler, Joseph's wife, then took over the hotel's management from 1887-1889. This rapid change both in use and management is likely a sign that the hotel was no longer as attractive to patrons as it once was, as more sophisticated establishments took its clientele. For the next several years, the hotel was either vacant or leased by other proprietors, although it would seem to continue to be owned by Kahler.

By 1893, the hotel had become a boarding house operated by a Joseph Keeler (possibly a misspelling of Kahler). Joseph Kahler likely passed away in 1894 and his widow, Hannah, continued to operate the boarding house until 1901, when the Montgomery brothers from the Winnipeg Hotel next door purchased the Dominion as an annex to the accommodations they provided. The intention was to either demolish the Dominion and built an addition on the property or else to renovate it to meet their purposes.

However, this plan never came to a fruition, likely due to the opening of the Commercial Hotel in 1902 in the Macdonald Block next door, as well as the Montgomery brothers' continued interests in other properties. The Dominion remained an annex to the Winnipeg Hotel until 1908, after which various people operated a rooming house in the upper floors with either a shoemaker and/or barber in the ground floor stores. It was about this name that the name "Dominion Hotel" was moved to another building at 523 Main Street, near where City Hall is now.

By the 1920s, the building was clearly deteriorating in photographs, with structural problems causing the facade to sag badly. A barber and shoe maker continued to run their businesses out of the building, along with a second hand store.

In 1934, a portion of the building was taken over by the Main Spot Café and Crystal Dyers went into the north end of the structure in 1937. Records are unclear, but it is likely that the upper floors were demolished around 1937 as well, with the length of the building also being cut in half around this time. Following the demolition, the remaining portions of the building were renovated to meet the Café and Dyers' need

In 1951, the building once again underwent renovation, this time to the exterior, in the art moderné style. It remained the Main Spot restaurant until it opened as the Blue Note Café, a popular local hangout for musicians, in March of 1983. The Blue Note Café stayed in the building until the mid-1990s when it relocated to another venue before closing down altogether. Below is a short documentary about the Blue Note Café and its contributions to the Winnipeg music scene in its heyday.

The vacant shell of the building was demolished in 2011, 134 years after it was built.
Sources & Links
'Paradise' Lost - Winnipeg Free Press 2013
Winnipeg love-hate: Bluenote Graveyard - Winnipeg Free Press 2011

http://heritagewinnipeg.blogspot.ca/2015/09/heritage-on-main-former-dominion-hotel.html viewed May 31, 2017

Elias married Nancy CAMERON on 20 Aug 1860 in Kintore, Oxford, Ontario. Nancy (daughter of Robert CAMERON and Nancy ROSS) was born on 22 Aug 1836 in East Nissouri, Oxford, Ontario; died on 12 Jan 1905 in Spokane, Spokane, Washington; was buried in Greenwood Memorial Terrace, Spokane, Spokane, Washington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]