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Interesting discussion of Dr. Decarie here groups.yahoo.com/group/MediainMontreal/message/22248 See also Jacques Lacoursière's Histoire populaire du Québec: 1896 à 1960, p.259 for the connection with Arcand.

The original Royal George Hotel was built in 1912 by G.L. Bury, and was one of the first main hotel establishments on the Sunshine Coast. After a horrendous fire which hit Nambour Curry Street in 1924, the building was rebuilt. In the mid-1950s another blaze took on the second floor, and the whole structure was rebuilt in the style it is to be seen as today. Over the years, the RGH has been known in the region as the friendly pub, the Worker Man's Hotel (cane cutters, mill workers...). The Royal George Hotel always has been and still is an iconic landmark for the town of Nambour. The Royal George Hotel has been family owned and operated since the year 2000 by the Laing family. Known over the years and throughout the Sunshine Coast for their generosity, sponsoring many junior sporting teams and events, as well as senior sporting clubs, the Laing family's motto has never changed: "Buy Local, Support Local". Source: www.thergh.com.au/about#:~:text=The%20original%20Royal%20....

The making of a town produces many memories and Nambour's landmark Club Hotel was originally the site of the Residential Hotel, built in 1911 as a timber saloon that provided accommodation only. The hotel was re-named the Club Hotel in 1912 when a liquor license was granted. The hotel was remodeled in the 1920s and destroyed by fire on January 7, 1938, in a blaze that decimated half of the town. The present Club Hotel building was erected on the same site in December 1938. The building was architecturally designed with cement walls. For Currie St and the wider Nambour community, this building has stood as an important part of Near North Coast history in the heritage sugar town. It has been the gatekeeper to memories of the iconic cane train crossing the nearby main street where the tracks still remain today. Today, this lovely old pub building houses an exceptional surfboard collection with an impressive array of rare and iconic boards lining the walls. This collection includes the large timber planks of the early 1900s as well as the more modern fiberglass boards of the 1960s and current times. In this collection there is a replica of the surfboard used by Duke Kahanamoku, a true Hawaiian hero and one of the world's greatest surfing watermen, when he first visited Australia and gave a surfing exhibition at Sydney`s Freshwater Beach on December 23, 1914. This is widely regarded as the most significant day in the development of surfing in Australia. The building and surfboard collection opened with a completed renovation of the floor that had previously been vacant for more than 10 years. Source: www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/sunshine-coast/lan...

The original Victoria Hotel was a modest single-storey wooden building with a shingle roof. Hitching posts and horse troughs flanked the intersecting dirt tracks that are today’s Marshall and Herbert Streets. In the 1920’s William Pendock and his wife Margaret bought the little pub and made sweeping changes. As their daughter-in-law, Mrs Nellie Pendock tells today, “Every now and again they added a few rooms – until they had fifty!” Master builder Bill Bell practically rebuilt the Victoria Hotel. He created a sturdy building of brick and timber, with a criss-cross of dark paneling and white lattice on its facades, stained glass windows and doorways, and an ornamental (and slight off-kilter) tower to top it off. An eye-catching building indeed: a picturesque mix of Victoriana and Jazz Age, with a dash of Early Colonial, and still looks much the same today. The Pendock family was associated with “The Vic” for three generations before selling it in the 1960s to Mr. George Pippos. George Pippos was a member of the syndicate who raced Gunsynd and he named his new Gunsynd Lounge after the champion. He also made many other improvements, smoothly blending the old with the new. Large clear windows have replaced the stained glass, but the main entrance still has its art deco front door, and the graceful panels of Art Nouveau glass still adorn shop fronts in the hotel building. The wide verandahs today are still unchanged – a superb vantage point for street processions! There are stories of horsemen riding into the bar and lassoing bottles from the shelves in the old days. It is certainly true that a customer took his boat into the bar during the 1956 floods. The crowd loved it. The Endeavour Group are the current owners who purchased the hotel from John and Michelle Klein, previous owners of fourteen years. Along with Michael Bell (current builder and Great Grandson of Original Builder), the Klein’s saved the hotel from demolishment after it closed in 2005 due to “not trading well” and made a painstaking effort to restore “The Good Old Vic”. Source: www.victoriahotelgoondiwindi.com.au/history#:~:text=The%2....