North Star Hotel

Details making it typical of late Victorian architecture include its four arched, vertically-coupled recessed double-hung windows; its rusticated stone stringcourse and sills; its front elevation with decorative brickwork, including stepped brick dentil below cornice level, semi-circular arches over fourth-storey double-hung sash windows, and moulded brickwork under rusticated stone string course.

[1] Like others built around the turn of the century, the lodging house originally hosted primarily single men working in seasonal resource industries.

Protestors claimed the action was taken because of the failure of Vancouver's Non-Partisan Association (including Mayor Sam Sullivan) to purchase unused hotels and convert them into affordable housing.

"[6] On October 24, however, 20 police officers announced a final warning and entered the North Star hotel to evict the six squatters inside.

[7] In 2014, in what was described as a "highly unusual" application, the Solterra Group applied for permission to renovate the building with half the rooms reserved for low-income residents.