The first registry record indicating the use of 322-324 Lakeside as a hotel was made in 1880, when Théodule Denis sold the lot to Léon Plessis Bélair, "innkeeper of the village." His son then sold it to Herménégilde Legault in 1891, who agreed " ...not to keep a hotel within the limits of said village for the next ten years." In 1907, the property was acquired by Delphis Rouleau, who sold it the same year to Joseph Brisebois, along with "the business assets of the hotel" acquired from Léon Charlebois who had run the hotel on a lease. After 1908, Dalbé Cousineau bought the property and its contents. His name is legible on the "Canada Hotel" sign in a photograph from the turn of the century. Sold to his brother, Raoul, in 1917, the building remained in the family until 1980, when it was acquired by Eve Drouin Thomson. In the late 1920s, the west part was rented to physician and pharmacist Jean-Baptiste Martin. The building was renovated in 1981.