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Lakeside Inn
Yarmouth Lakeside Inn
The Lakeside Inn was built by the DAR a mile outside of Yarmouth in 1933 on Lake Milo to provide a western anchor to the DAR hotels and accomodate passengers making connections with Yarmouth steamships. A seasonal operation, it ran from June to September.(1) It was built in a Norman Chateau style, essentially a scaled down version of the Digby Pines. The Lakeside Inn was in operation until 1960 when it was converted to a nursing home, "St. Joseph's Villa du Lac".(2)
Gallery
Lakeside Inn 31st July 1931 with rail line seen near lower part
Lakeside Inn as depicted in the 1936 Time Table.
The Lakeside Inn pictured in the 1946 Evangeline Land Brochure.
A colour postcard of the Lakeside Inn. Year unknown although the cars hint at circa 1940.
Lakeside Inn rack card dated 1950.
Lakeside Inn in 1949.
References and Footnotes
- (1)Marguerite Woodworth, History of the Dominion Atlantic Railway, facing page 128 and page 149.
- (2) Mike Parker, Historic Annapolis Valley: Rural Life Remembered, Nimbus 2006, page 87.
