Actually I think it was on the Northwest corner of Lockman (Barrington) and North, so across the street from the cast iron railing pics I had posted previously.
My reasoning:
(1) Referring to
Plate T of the 1878 Atlas posted previously, the station itself occupied the Northeast corner - there would be no room for the hotel on the Northeast corner of Lockman and North.
(2) According to
this website, the King Edward Hotel was located at 222-224 Lockman St. and was opened in August 1903.
Zooming in to Plate T linked above, that would place it at the lot labeled "B.H. Collins", since the lots to the north start at civic number 238.
As a check, I looked up
Plate E on the NS archives, and found that the civic numbers at the southwest side of the corner stopped at 220.
An interesting side point to my previous posts on the station is that the pic which was labeled as being from 1880, clearly shows the King Edward Hotel in it - which was supposedly opened in summer of 1903. The hotel is not visible in the other photo labelled 1902, and the covered walkway/stairway was definitely not in that one.
This tells me that the "1880" photo is labelled incorrectly, which makes sense because the 1902 photo shows absolutely no indication that the walkway/stairway ever existed. Thus I think that the 1902 photo is likely labelled correctly and the 1880 photo is later, which makes sense because the walkway/stairway was most likely built after the Hotel was built.
This is supported by the postcard I posted from the
ebay auction which was postmarked 1916. Not clear proof but I think a good indication that it was a later photo...
Interesting side note #2:
- I noticed on "Plate E" that civic number 439 Brunswick Street was deeded to
Sir Sanford Fleming, which I had heard before but hadn't previously seen it in this context.
Sorry... don't mean to "geek out" too much on this old info... These posts start as an idea that I want to learn more about, and then I pretty much post a play by play of what I find, in case people happen to be interested, and/or have something to add. Sometimes they can be incomplete, or have incorrect information in them (i.e. the dates of the photos), so they shouldn't be taken as any sort of historical study, but just as a quest for knowledge...
