Scandia Restaurant (Business)

The first advertisement for the Scandia Restaurant (which ran in The Similkameen Star on April 10, 1914), noted that the restaurant was now open. The proprietors were Ameen & Strom and the restaurant was the “second door from post office.” This then was on Vermilion Avenue.

In October 1915, the proprietor or the restaurant was Fred Green but on March 1, 1916, he severed “his connection and took charge of the boarding house at Voight Camp (May 1916).  

The business was taken over by Mrs. Martin Lundin (Flora Ann (Mackinnon) Lundin), the owner of the building. (The Lundin Block was likely constructed in 1912 by Martin Lundin.)

The restaurant closed on April 8, 1917 and re-opened as a Bakery and Tea Room. It appears it was still known as the Scandia Restaurant – in April 1919, the Princeton Star reported that Lucji Blezevich had tried to burn down the Scandia Restaurant three times in one night. 

The property, a two-story building (a restaurant and rooming house), was purchased by P.Y. Smith and Pete Johnson as an investment in mid-1918. 

The restaurant closed permanently in March 1927: “The proprietor of the Scandia Cafe recently closed up shop and quietly faded away, leaving no address.”