Paula Simons: Strathcona Hotel sold to a developer

For 127 years — apart from a decade-long dry period in the Prohibition Era when it was a Presbyterian girls’ college — Edmontonians have been rolling into the Strathcona Hotel for a glass of beer.
The hotel opened in 1891, as a stopping house for new arrivals, straight off the train via the Calgary and Edmonton Railway, the first rail line to connect this place with the wider world.
Over the years, the hotel and bar have played host to generations of visitors, from railway work