Pat Comeau was just 29 when she took over Weymouth's Goodwin Hotel with her husband Arnold. Fast-forward over 5 decades and Comeau, now a widow, wants to sell - for less than the average price of Halifax home.
Weymouth's Goodwin Hotel, which welcomed weary travellers for decades, is for sale. Karla KellyIt’s been a long time, so Pat Comeau is to be excused for not recalling exactly what she thought stepping into the Goodwin Hotel in Weymouth that singular day.
That was March of 1970. She has lived in the Goodwin ever since, first with Arnold and since his death, by herself, in a room on the main floor, just down the hall from the front desk, and the dining room, where she serves the fabled pies made by her twin sons Brian and Bruce. Anna Ruth Rogers, now 90, figures she was just a baby when she first visited the hotel, which her cousins had inherited from Capt. John Goodwin, a former sailing ship captain, who somewhere around 1850 had expanded the family’s private home.
Big events were held there, for example a post-wedding reception for Germaine Stehelin, a member of the aristocratic Stehelin family, who arrived in the area from Normandy, France and built a remarkable lumbering community in the woods not far from Weymouth. Yet, by 1955, when the last of John Goodwin’s descendants sold the hotel to the Rices, Weymouth, like many Nova Scotia shipbuilding centres, was in decline. In time, the trains stopped coming and Highway 101 arrived, bypassing Weymouth. The symbolism was undeniable last August, when the village’s last bank branch closed, possibly due to a significant downturn in the local mink farming industry.Except this is hardly one of those forgotten rural places.
The afternoons are mostly free, but at five p.m. she is back in the dining room. Some local groups -- a pair of book clubs, the Lions Club —meet at the Goodwin on a regular basis and require her attention.After all this time she could use a break. Comeau knows there is no controlling what a buyer does with a property, but her hope is that whoever buys the Goodwin honours the past and keeps it as a hotel.
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