Elm Tree Dental

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Dr. Richard Ehrlich recently purchased the former Elm Tree Hotel building in Palgrave, Ontario. The building was constructed in the late 1800s when the railroad ran through Palgrave. The train was only a dollar-a-ride from Toronto in 1930, so it was a popular tourist destination. There was a grist mill by the village pond and a sawmill just downstream, both of which created local jobs. Palgrave, with a population of only 100 people, was considered to be rather remote in those days. In a 1931 newspaper ad, the Elm Tree Hotel boasted that it was "Palgrave's Old-Established and Leading Hotel, The Home of the Commercial Traveler and Tourist", not to mention that it had "Perfect Sanitation". In the same newspaper, a neighbouring hotel advertised its "excellent facilities for hunting, fishing and tourist parties" and reassured guests that "guides are supplied on request" - if they cared to venture into the wilderness outside of town. One side effect of having the railroad in town was a lot of drunkenness on pay nights. As a result, around the turn of the century, Albion Township (as it was then known) went dry - and stayed that way until the 1970s. According to longtime Palgrave residents, the hotel's owner, Billy Irwin, would sneak up from the basement carrying liquor and look carefully around the staircase before dashing across the hall with the alcohol. ...

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