Downtown Timmins still has a lot of buildings from the early 19-hundreds that have different occupants in them today. Over the next few weeks in our look at local history, we’ll explore some of them, and some that don’t exist anymore.
One of the first isn’t there anymore. Museum director-curator Karen Bachmann tells us that Noah Timmins built the Goldfields Hotel in 1911.
“So he had investors coming in, he had workers coming in, and there was really nowhere for them to say, obviously. So he built the Goldfields Hotel,” she recounts. “It was a three-storey affair, had a great big balcony on the front and was really important and was where everything happened in the community.”
The Goldfields remained until the mid-70s on what is now the corner of Pine St. and Algonquin Blvd., where Scotiabank now is. Originally, it looked like it was right in front of the train station within nothing between the two.
