Along the E&N by Glen A. Mofford

Author:Glen A. Mofford
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Touchwood Editions
Published: 2019-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

The Qualicum Beach Hotel, 1931. Image from the author’s postcard collection.

QUALICUM BEACH HOTEL

1913 – 1969

The Qualicum Beach Hotel reflected the surrounding beauty of the resort town as well as the vision of its owner, Brigadier General Noel Ernest Money, CMG, DSO, TD, and architects Karl B. Spurgin and Edmund O. Wilkins.4 The beautiful two-storey Tudor resort hotel overlooked an eighteen-hole golf course also conceived and built by Money; its rolling greens swept down the gentle slopes toward the ocean east of the town of Qualicum Beach, allowing for spectacular views from the hotel and golf course.

Developer, visionary, hotelman, sportsman, army veteran, and devoted father: General Money was all of these things. Born in Montreal on March 17, 1867, Noel Money was the eldest son of Captain Albert William Money of the Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment. By 1871, four-year-old Noel lived in Weybridge, a suburb of London, with his two sisters. After his education at Radley and then at Christ Church, Oxford, he served in the Shropshire Imperial Yeomanry during the Boer War from 1900 to 1902.5 He returned to England and married Maud Boileau Wood, second daughter of Edward Wood of Culmington Manor, Shropshire.

In 1912, Money journeyed to Ontario and then to British Columbia to enjoy some fishing and see the country. He stayed ten days at Qualicum Beach and liked it so much that he purchased six lots and made plans to build a hotel and golf course. To finance the venture, he created and sold shares in the Merchants Trust and Trading Company, of which he eventually became the managing director. “The Trust registered in BC in 1910 and its shareholders came from Newcastle-on-Tyne in north-eastern England. Its purpose was to invest in mortgages and property.”6 The company opened the new Qualicum Beach Hotel in 1913.7

The two-storey Tudor structure reflected the British connection of both the owners and the majority of the European population who lived in the village at the time. As guests arrived at the front entrance of the hotel, they would walk up the six steps of a wide stairway onto a large porch, where other guests could be seen relaxing in large, comfortable chairs and enjoying the view of the golf course and the beach in the distance.

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