Urban Shocker
Doyenne
... so if the hotel at the present location was once called the New Strathcona Hotel, I appear to have unearthed its earlier location.
Maybe this will help a little Archivist. Front St. east of York looking northwest. The building I've marked should be the one you're looking for.
Is that where the 1904 Great Fire started?
Obviously not that same building though (since the photo's from 1925).
brick? I seem to recall its more like block. It was covered with siding when floors were added in the late eighties. We used to refer to it as the concrete country club. As ugly as the siding is what's underneath is not any better.