Well 2009 starts with a sad loss. The Kilmorey Lodge in Waterton burned to the ground today... I was almost sick at the news. So many wonderful memories in the Lightpost restaurant and bar. It's funny how certain places retain an fixed place in your mind yet can be gone like that.
Here is a reposting from the Calgary Herald.
"The Kilmorey Lodge, one of Alberta's most historic buildings and an icon of Waterton Lakes National Park, was destroyed this morning by a fire.
Four guests - a couple from Montana and a couple from Calgary, staying in separate rooms - were evacuated safely by the lodge's night auditor, who discovered the fire on the main floor at 3:45 a.m., said owner Locklynn Craig.
"It's a beautiful building. I could not believe it. I am stunned," Craig told the Herald.
The nearly 90-year-old log structure, which pre-dates Waterton's historic Prince of Wales Hotel, was "engulfed and burning to the ground within one hour," he said.
The cause of the fire is not known.
One of the original buildings in Waterton, the lodge was granted a lease within the park in 1911. Within 10 years, it had established itself as an eight-room boarding house on Emerald Bay with a reputation for fine food.
Tuesday’s fire is not the first the hotel has suffered: it burned down in 1933 but was rebuilt. It was also expanded in 1934."
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