Rascoe's Hotel (Illustration for "Dickens in Montreal") (original) (raw)

Francisco Rascoe's Hotel (1836), 295 St-Paul Est, Montreal. Photograph, caption, and commentary by Philip V. Allingham. [You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL.]

Here Dickens lived during his short stay in Montreal in May, 1842. It is a misnomer, perhaps, to style Rasco's as "vanished," for though it is no longer [as of 1932] an hotel, the building, considerably altered on the ground floor, still stands. A letter dated "Rasco's Hotel" is included in Forster's "Life." In 1931 a tablet commemorating Dickens's visit to Montreal was placed on the building by the Montreal Branch (seeThe Dickensian, Autumn Number, 1931). ("Vanished Dickensland. Montreal as Dickens saw it, I. Rasco's Hotel.")

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