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those crimes didn't exist before?
Posted on: June 3, 2025 at 09:03:22 CT
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The story of Friedrich Trump’s chapter in Canada begins in the 1880s.
The 16-year-old barber’s apprentice, whose father died young, moved to New York City from Germany to be closer to his sister.
He then moved to Seattle and began operating an eatery until a July 1897 newspaper headline caught his eye: “Gold! Gold! Gold!”
Friedrich Trump sold the eatery and headed north with thousands of other Americans and Canadians. He headed toward the Yukon River but landed just short of it, in B.C.
He and a business partner erected a canteen on the route and called it the Arctic Restaurant & Hotel. Their specialty was roadkill.
Within three years, he relocated the business with the same facade to Whitehorse, where the hotel became famous.
“He made quick money on booze, and he was a good cook,” Ellis said, adding her grandfather, a North West Mounted Police officer at the time, also drank at the Arctic.
It served more than food and drinks.
Newspaper ads at the time mentioned private suites for ladies and scales for patrons to weigh gold — if they preferred to pay for services that way.
One Yukon Sun writer moralized about the backroom goings-on: “For single men the Arctic has the best restaurant,” he wrote, “but I would not advise respectable women to go there.”
By early 1901, there were fewer gold strikes and Mounties announced plans to curb prostitution, gambling and liquor.
Friedrich Trump sold the business and returned to Germany. He eventually immigrated back across the ocean to New York City, accompanied by his wife, who was pregnant with Donald Trump’s dad.
In 1905, a huge fire wiped out most of the hotel, and Friedrich Trump died of pneumonia about 12 years later.
He left behind real estate for his son, Fred Trump, who used the money to invest.
The 16-year-old barber’s apprentice, whose father died young, moved to New York City from Germany to be closer to his sister.
He then moved to Seattle and began operating an eatery until a July 1897 newspaper headline caught his eye: “Gold! Gold! Gold!”
Friedrich Trump sold the eatery and headed north with thousands of other Americans and Canadians. He headed toward the Yukon River but landed just short of it, in B.C.
He and a business partner erected a canteen on the route and called it the Arctic Restaurant & Hotel. Their specialty was roadkill.
Within three years, he relocated the business with the same facade to Whitehorse, where the hotel became famous.
“He made quick money on booze, and he was a good cook,” Ellis said, adding her grandfather, a North West Mounted Police officer at the time, also drank at the Arctic.
It served more than food and drinks.
Newspaper ads at the time mentioned private suites for ladies and scales for patrons to weigh gold — if they preferred to pay for services that way.
One Yukon Sun writer moralized about the backroom goings-on: “For single men the Arctic has the best restaurant,” he wrote, “but I would not advise respectable women to go there.”
By early 1901, there were fewer gold strikes and Mounties announced plans to curb prostitution, gambling and liquor.
Friedrich Trump sold the business and returned to Germany. He eventually immigrated back across the ocean to New York City, accompanied by his wife, who was pregnant with Donald Trump’s dad.
In 1905, a huge fire wiped out most of the hotel, and Friedrich Trump died of pneumonia about 12 years later.
He left behind real estate for his son, Fred Trump, who used the money to invest.
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those crimes didn't exist before? - Valley Tiger MU - 6/3 09:03:22