Place 59: Silver Dollar - historical vicinity
9 September 1905A canal-area beerjoint with an escape to Exchange Street from its rear privy. The street block and exact building position are not securely given. The same passage also calls it the Sleepy Silver Dollar.
About Silver Dollar - historical vicinity
The Silver Dollar was a canal-area beer hall and the setting of the 1905 killings associated with Claude Heroux. A rear privy provided an escape toward Exchange Street, linking the establishment’s back side to a named downtown route. The same venue is also called the Sleepy Silver Dollar in the historical account. On the atlas it is treated as a vanished commercial place near the Canal, not as a surviving business, and its marker emphasizes the wider historical vicinity rather than a recovered building.
Why this pin is marked B
Inferred. Worked out from routes, distances and what stands next to it.
This site receives level B because the Canal district and the escape to Exchange Street constrain its neighbourhood, but the source does not identify a street address, block face or distance from the water. The plotted building is one plausible arrangement that allows a rear route to Exchange Street and remains near the other 1905 locations. Its exact side of the street, entrance, privy, lot boundary and relationship to neighbouring premises are all reconstructed rather than directly documented.
