I don't care what anyone says, I think the PG Hotel is a very nice historical building inside and out. Hopefully that is the one that stays preserved.

I also thought the Bus was one of the best old style big city kind of looking buildings in the downtown, so who knows maybe they can save a wall or something, but the rest of them IMO aren't worth much for historical value, but I could be wrong.

It's a shame people only care about buildings like these after they've burned to the ground, and not before they've gone to Hell in a hand basket.

Even if the list above contains a bunch of old hotels, unless you're a geriatric local chances are you don't have a very positive outlook on their existence.

As a geriatric local that has been in most of those places I say good riddance. Mourning the loss of these sleeze-holes is like moaning about the fire department burning down a crack shack.

On the other hand when the Jack of Clubs Hotel in Wells burned down that was a real loss.

The difference is that Prince George was being dragged down by our flop houses and they contributed nothing positive to the downtown.

I heard a rumor while back about a dark piece of Prince George history concerning the Croft Hotel...

The story went to say that in the 1920's there existed a bare knuckle arena buried under the Prince George "red light" area. Contestants and spectators would enter the arena area from the Croft I think. I do not remember, nor would I repeat the graphic details of that story. It ended with the room being cemented in by the RCMP and never mentioned again... The "no mention" thing I have found proof of, but I am curious if the story was based in truth... It would be interesting to read I think.

"The first rule of the Red Light Area is, you do not talk about the Red Light Area."

Wasn't it funny that the city puts out the request a day after the Bus burns down.

The Bus would have been a good building to be kept in our inventory of old buildings down town. Might as well,light up down town, when the firemen are on a picnic.

The old Bay building, Old McLeod's and the Kressge Building. The rest can burn, and start over.

The Northern and the PG Hotel is just a fire trap waiting to happen.

Out of curiosity, where are all the displaced clients going to go. Are they going to take over Joe's. Is there going to be a rumble on the street.

The Croft has a beer cooler that looks like some kind of entrance to an underground cellar, but its not much bigger then 10 feet across at most inside it. People go in-and-out of the beer cooler all the time, and people that ask questions probably get funny stories so that they don't get funny ideas about steeling the beer. There could be no underground fight-arena in downtown PG because the water level is like 6-inches below the pavement, as the whole area is all located in a flood plane. Any fighting in downtown PG takes place above ground I'd have to say.

Connaught Hotel??? At 1550 Victoria St.??? This is NOT a heritage hotel/motel!! What a waste of tax dollars again!! If some private individual wants to conduct such a research, have at it, but don't ask me to pay for it!!!

ELECTION YEAR, thank God!! Get rid of these morons!!

Time is running out for our "special" city
leaders to get their names on bronze plaques all over town before they are no longer goose stepping up and down the halls at city hall.
PG is the study capital of Canada.

I don't see the Kellar House mentioned.

It says that three walls of the Columbus remain. When was the picture taken? Looks like the finish of the front wall is not there but two side walls are. Is the back wall still there?

What a crock, again. What is the "heritage Value" of a cheaply constructed motel built in the 70's? I am referring to the Connaught Inn. Same goes for the Astoria, built in the 70's unless they got the address wrong and meant the original version on George across from the Mac. Even the Mac was built in 1970, torn down in about 1995, that's twenty five years, does that make it a heritage site? If so, I must be a bloody antique. If you want "heritage" other than some of the names mentioned, try: the Canada, the Premier, the Park, and probably several others that were here before 1970. The Connaught though? gimme a break!
Eagle One; there are plenty of basements in the downtown area, so I guess the water table is not 6" below the street everywhere, like third avenue for example, the Royal Produce, Northern Hardware, old federal building (3rd & Quebec) B&B Music, Premier Hotel, the Mac hotel, lots and lots of basements, so an 'underground fight club' would be possible, although it sounds like a b.s. story to me because why would 'they' seal it up?
metalman.

A rose is a rose is a rose but a dump is still a dump too. Heritage? Dump? In the yer mind or the wallet of the beholder.

Just my opinion, but I don't think there is a building in PG that is worthy of a "heritage" designation. To take it a step further, as a lifelong PG resident, I'd be embarrased if some of those places were designated as such. Oh and the Connaught? That just boggles the mind.

It was very awesome that local hotels have been given a heritage value. This will be a great influence to all local hotels to give value to their establishment. What a good job!




Jim

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I am laughing my butt off right now reading about these "heritage" buildings! They are scummy, disgusting, hooker/stripper/drug infested pieces of garbage! I really like PG, but these buildings need to go...not be preserved. If this happens I will make an attempt to leave this city...what a joke!!!!