Scope and Content
Victoria St. looking east at the hotel and point. "Built by the Intercolonial Railway Company in 1884 at the instigation of Sir Stanford Fleming, Engineer-In-Chief, Rhodes-Curry and Company. Burned in 1921. It contained about 150 rooms and could hold about 250 guests".
"Captain John Hamilton. Dalhousie's first storekeeper, (died August 24, 1848 at the age of 80 yrs.) was a Scot from the Isle of Arran (Inch, being Scottish for "an island") Around 1838 he acquired half the point, then known as Bonamy's Point, after Peter Bonamy our first land holder and settler, he built a house. Homesick, he called the land Inch Arran after his homeland and eventually the whole Point took on the name".