7-11 W Hastings St.

Built in 1900 as an apartment block, the street level commercial frontage housed a farm implements business, McTaggart and Moscrop Hardware, and an optician. Vancouver Drug Company became a tenant in 1918 and remained at that address until the 1930s.

Gibson’s Dairy Products occupied 7 West Hastings Street from the 1920s the 1950s while Canadian Window Bakeries held tenancy throughout the 1930s. Both firms moved elsewhere as the centre of commerce shifted to the south and east and to the suburbs.

The building has been known as Pacific Rooms, Beacon Hotel, Shasta Hotel, Grand Central Rooms, and is currently a residential hotel.

Source

Canada's Historic Places

More information

http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=8617&pid=0