This advertisement of the BALMORAL HOTEL was published before Prohibition started in 1915. Yes, it is 100 years ago that the Temperance organizations influenced the Saskatchewan government to “banish the bar” and all hotel bars were closed. The Balmoral was then owned by Harry Bronfman who was advertising that the hotel had 70 rooms, 20 had private baths and telephones, a pool room, a Barber Shop and a “First Class Bar.” In those days the address was FRONT STREET NORTH, changed to Livingstone Street in 1917.
