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Online Heritage Inventory

Sockeye Hotel

General Information
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Type of Resource: Building
Common Name: Steveston Hotel
Address: 12111 3rd Avenue
Neighbourhood (Planning Area Name): Steveston
Construction Date: circa 1894
Current Owner: Private
Designated: No

Statement of Significance
Description of Site
The Sockeye Hotel takes up the west side of a full block along Third Avenue. It is a two-storey, utilitarian structure with a flat, unarticulated façade and a flat roof. It directly fronts the street, without transition or landscaping.

 Statement of Values
The primary heritage values of the Sockeye Hotel are its historic association with the development of the Steveston townsite and its social and cultural value as a community meeting place. As one of a number of rooming houses and drinking establishments in Steveston at the turn of the twentieth century, the hotel serviced the population of Steveston during the boom years of the fishing and canning industries, when the town became a vibrant and sometimes unruly community. The hotel has functioned as a gathering place for the town’s citizens, and it continues to operate as a hotel, restaurant and pub. It was a refuge for many after the fire of 1918, and housed the post office during Steveston’s rebuilding.
The hotel is a landmark in Steveston, located adjacent to the Gulf of Georgia cannery.

 Character Defining Elements
Key elements that define the heritage character of the site include:
· The hotel’s landmark status at the terminus of Steveston’s main street
· The liveliness and diversity the establishment lends to the street edge along Third Avenue
· Its symbolic role as a social gathering place in Steveston during most of its history.

 History
The Sockeye Hotel takes up the west side of a full block along Third Avenue. It is a two-storey, utilitarian structure with a flat, unarticulated façade and a flat roof. It directly fronts the street, without transition or landscaping.

 Architectural Significance
Architectural Style
Feaux Boomtown. (Further research is required to determine the original architectural style. It may have been Queen Anne.)

 Building Type
Commercial (Hotel).

 Design Features
The current design features include a flat roof, aluminum siding with a stucco-like design at the bottom level. Windows are 3 pane with mini-shutters that do not match the windows. The lower windows are large- paned. All windows are aluminum. A green awning bisects the building and divides the stucco from the aluminum siding

 Landscape Significance
(No information available)

 Integrity
Alterations
This building has been completely hidden beneath a layering of dull material. The restoration required is extensive; but, worth it.

 Original Location
Yes

 Condition
The condition of the original material is unknown at present.

 Lost
No

 Documentation
Evaluated By
Julie MacDonald (Julie MacDonald Heritage Consulting)

 Date
Tuesday, February 15, 2000

 Documentation
“Heritage Inventory, Phase II” by Foundation Group Designs, May 1989. Inventory Sheets by Diana Bodnar (Foundation Group), January 1989.

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