In September 1899, the Manitoulin Expositor reported that Mr. Angus McDonald, the popular proprietor of the Killarney House...says that the tourist trade in his town is very large this season, and that all available accommodation was taken up.
Three months later, Mr. McDonald had the foundation ready for a large addition to the Hotel. It was completed in the spring of 1900.
In May of 1903, a raging fire burned the newly-enlarged hotel to the ground. Only a small amount of furniture and the hotel's piano were saved. Despite an estimated loss of over $10,000 in property and only $3.000 in insurance monies...
For many years, the family history of Julia Peladeau, foremother oif all the descendants of Andre Proulx and Henry Bateman, has been a mystery. It was known that Julia was of Ojibwe ancestry, and family lore consistently claimed she arrived in Killarney from the Sarnia area, but details of her early life and the names of her ancestors were yet to be discovered.
In the late winter of 2002, this writer obtained Indian Affairs records from the National Archives of Canada that contain information about Julia's life before her family's arrival in Killarney village.
