Article: The story of the cursed Grand Central: hotel was ill-fated from the start.(LOOKING BACK: THE GRAND CENTRAL HOTEL)

No business venture in Bellingham history devoured more capital and defeated more good intentions than the ill-fated Grand Central Hotel.

On May 23, 1887, the inaugural train of the newly completed Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) steamed into Vancouver British Columbia from Montreal. To accommodate the passengers, the CPR had built the Hotel Vancouver at the southwest corner of Georgia and Granville streets. Like clockwork, the hotel opened a week prior to the first train's arrival.

Vancouver boomed as the terminus of a transcontinental railroad and the hotel of the same name made a fortune.

Reginald Jones, an attorney who had represented the ...

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