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The First Algonquin

 

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1889 Brochure St. Andrews Land Company advertisement for Algonquin, 1889.

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Robert Gardner Robert Gardiner of the Avery Supply Company, Boston, was a leading light in the plans of the St. Andrews Land Company and the Algonquin Hotel. He built a cottage next to the Algonquin which, much expanded, is still in existence. Charlotte County Archives

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Algonquin with Annex The Land Company added an annex to the Algonquin in 1894. seen here to the left. This required a loan from the CPR which the Company eventually defaulted on. Charlottte County Archives

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Golfer The expanded Algonquin of 1894 offered more in the way of entertrainment, including a golf course and clubhouse. Provincial Archives of New Brunswick

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Tennis 1907 The first Algonquin sported a tennis court alongside. The cottage in the background belonged to Robert Gardiner. Acadiensis 1907