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Trump family fortune began in Canadian brothel-hotel
Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Fakiha Baig
Published Mar 13, 2025 • 3 minute read
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Arctic Restaurant and Hotel at Bennett, B.C., once owned by Donald Trump's grandfather, Friedrich Trump.
In one of history’s little-known ironies, the Maple Leaf country pushing back against Donald Trump’s annexation bid is also host to a tiny, remote restaurant and brothel that helped launch the U.S. president’s family fortune more than 100 years ago.
To find it, look west. Way west.
On a quiet, remote trail in British Columbia near the Yukon boundary sits a replica wooden facade of the brothel and restaurant Trump’s grandfather built at the turn of the century.
Friedrich Trump called his business in Bennett, a town that sprang up because of the Klondike Gold Rush, the Arctic Restaurant & Hotel.
Parks Canada says the replica at the Chilkoot Trail National Historic Site was constructed in 2017, and the kitchen inside is now exclusively used by government workers.
“The exterior design … was influenced by (the Arctic Restaurant & Hotel), because it is representative of numerous false-fronted buildings that existed at Bennett,” Parks Canada spokesperson Megan Hope said in an email.
The elder Trump, a German immigrant, cooked and served food inside the Arctic to Americans and Canadians heading to goldfields in the Yukon. He made enough cash to sow the seeds for the future Trump empire.
A 90-year-old Yukoner who wrote a booklet about men who became wealthy off the gold rush, including Friedrich Trump, says the replica should remind President Trump to show gratitude to Canada rather than launching a trade war and annexation bid against it.
“(Donald Trump) got the darndest history,” Pat Ellis, author of the “Financial Sourdough Starter Stories,” said in an interview from Whitehorse.
“Americans made their stink here (and) went back to the States with their money.
“Now he has a fantasy of taking over Canada. That’s gratitude, eh?” she said with a laugh.
The story of Friedrich Trump’s chapter in Canada begins in the 1880s.
The 16-year-old barber’s apprentice, whose father died young, moved to New York City from Germany to be closer to his sister.
He then moved to Seattle and began operating an eatery until a July 1897 newspaper headline caught his eye: “Gold! Gold! Gold!”
Friedrich Trump sold the eatery and headed north with thousands of other Americans and Canadians. He headed toward the Yukon River but landed just short of it, in B.C.
He and a business partner erected a canteen on the route and called it the Arctic Restaurant & Hotel. Their specialty was roadkill.
Within three years, he relocated the business with the same facade to Whitehorse, where the hotel became famous.
“He made quick money on booze, and he was a good cook,” Ellis said, adding her grandfather, a North West Mounted Police officer at the time, also drank at the Arctic.
It served more than food and drinks.
Newspaper ads at the time mentioned private suites for ladies and scales for patrons to weigh gold — if they preferred to pay for services that way.
One Yukon Sun writer moralized about the backroom goings-on: “For single men the Arctic has the best restaurant,” he wrote, “but I would not advise respectable women to go there.”
By early 1901, there were fewer gold strikes and Mounties announced plans to curb prostitution, gambling and liquor.
Friedrich Trump sold the business and returned to Germany. He eventually immigrated back across the ocean to New York City, accompanied by his wife, who was pregnant with Donald Trump’s dad.
In 1905, a huge fire wiped out most of the hotel, and Friedrich Trump died of pneumonia about 12 years later.
He left behind real estate for his son, Fred Trump, who used the money to invest.
Donald Trump took loans from his father to create his global brand, stamping hotels and towers with the Trump name in a similar, large font to the one his grandfather once used in Canada.
For Ellis, Donald Trump’s signs and hotels are a reminder of something else.
“His family’s wealth began in Canada,” she said.
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Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Fakiha Baig
Published Mar 13, 2025 • 3 minute read
Trump wealth
Arctic Restaurant and Hotel at Bennett, B.C., once owned by Donald Trump's grandfather, Friedrich Trump.
In one of history’s little-known ironies, the Maple Leaf country pushing back against Donald Trump’s annexation bid is also host to a tiny, remote restaurant and brothel that helped launch the U.S. president’s family fortune more than 100 years ago.
To find it, look west. Way west.
On a quiet, remote trail in British Columbia near the Yukon boundary sits a replica wooden facade of the brothel and restaurant Trump’s grandfather built at the turn of the century.
Friedrich Trump called his business in Bennett, a town that sprang up because of the Klondike Gold Rush, the Arctic Restaurant & Hotel.
Parks Canada says the replica at the Chilkoot Trail National Historic Site was constructed in 2017, and the kitchen inside is now exclusively used by government workers.
“The exterior design … was influenced by (the Arctic Restaurant & Hotel), because it is representative of numerous false-fronted buildings that existed at Bennett,” Parks Canada spokesperson Megan Hope said in an email.
The elder Trump, a German immigrant, cooked and served food inside the Arctic to Americans and Canadians heading to goldfields in the Yukon. He made enough cash to sow the seeds for the future Trump empire.
A 90-year-old Yukoner who wrote a booklet about men who became wealthy off the gold rush, including Friedrich Trump, says the replica should remind President Trump to show gratitude to Canada rather than launching a trade war and annexation bid against it.
“(Donald Trump) got the darndest history,” Pat Ellis, author of the “Financial Sourdough Starter Stories,” said in an interview from Whitehorse.
“Americans made their stink here (and) went back to the States with their money.
“Now he has a fantasy of taking over Canada. That’s gratitude, eh?” she said with a laugh.
The story of Friedrich Trump’s chapter in Canada begins in the 1880s.
The 16-year-old barber’s apprentice, whose father died young, moved to New York City from Germany to be closer to his sister.
He then moved to Seattle and began operating an eatery until a July 1897 newspaper headline caught his eye: “Gold! Gold! Gold!”
Friedrich Trump sold the eatery and headed north with thousands of other Americans and Canadians. He headed toward the Yukon River but landed just short of it, in B.C.
He and a business partner erected a canteen on the route and called it the Arctic Restaurant & Hotel. Their specialty was roadkill.
Within three years, he relocated the business with the same facade to Whitehorse, where the hotel became famous.
“He made quick money on booze, and he was a good cook,” Ellis said, adding her grandfather, a North West Mounted Police officer at the time, also drank at the Arctic.
It served more than food and drinks.
Newspaper ads at the time mentioned private suites for ladies and scales for patrons to weigh gold — if they preferred to pay for services that way.
One Yukon Sun writer moralized about the backroom goings-on: “For single men the Arctic has the best restaurant,” he wrote, “but I would not advise respectable women to go there.”
By early 1901, there were fewer gold strikes and Mounties announced plans to curb prostitution, gambling and liquor.
Friedrich Trump sold the business and returned to Germany. He eventually immigrated back across the ocean to New York City, accompanied by his wife, who was pregnant with Donald Trump’s dad.
In 1905, a huge fire wiped out most of the hotel, and Friedrich Trump died of pneumonia about 12 years later.
He left behind real estate for his son, Fred Trump, who used the money to invest.
Donald Trump took loans from his father to create his global brand, stamping hotels and towers with the Trump name in a similar, large font to the one his grandfather once used in Canada.
For Ellis, Donald Trump’s signs and hotels are a reminder of something else.
“His family’s wealth began in Canada,” she said.
Trump family fortune began in Canadian brothel-hotel
A tiny, remote restaurant and brothel in B.C. helped launch the U.S. president's family fortune more than 100 years ago
I haven’t the foggiest idea who put this thought in his head, though it’s worth noting for context that there is another prominent international figure who routinely references an “artificial” line between his country and his neighbor: Vladimir Putin has used the same rhetoric in recent years when describing the border between Russia and Ukraine.
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Trump’s preoccupation with the U.S.-Canada border takes a weird turn — MSNBC
The American president recently started fixating on the line separating the United States and Canada. It’s worth asking why.
I'm thinking the history of "Fifty-four forty or fight!" is something he just learned about.
The rest of us got it in seventh grade.
The rest of us got it in seventh grade.
Nope. We didn't have drones then.But…wouldn’t "Fifty-four forty” also have been an artificial line drone on a map?
I’m gonna blame my tools again for that one. I was outside text to talking in the wind…
(you don’t wanna know what it tries to correct Regina to on me occasionally)
Canada Needs a New Civil Defence Corps | The Tyee
Trump’s aggression means it’s time to train thousands more civilians for disaster preparedness. Would you join?
Actually agree with this, all of it.
51st State: Canadian resolve in saying ‘no’ continues, while a massive gap between Trump & Americans is revealed -
60% of Americans say they have no interest in Canada joining, 32% say only if Canada wants to March 12, 2025 – U.S. President Donald Trump continues to escalate his trade war and annexation rhetoric this week, leaving economists, commentators, and even supporters wondering about his motivations...
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What gets me is 21 fucking % of Cons would be okay with Canada joining the US.
Traitors generally are conservative.51st State: Canadian resolve in saying ‘no’ continues, while a massive gap between Trump & Americans is revealed -
60% of Americans say they have no interest in Canada joining, 32% say only if Canada wants to March 12, 2025 – U.S. President Donald Trump continues to escalate his trade war and annexation rhetoric this week, leaving economists, commentators, and even supporters wondering about his motivations...
What gets me is 21 fucking % of Cons would be okay with Canada joining the US.
And yet, it was the left that put us in this precarious position in the first place.Canada Needs a New Civil Defence Corps | The Tyee
Trump’s aggression means it’s time to train thousands more civilians for disaster preparedness. Would you join?thetyee.ca
Actually agree with this, all of it.
There is good reason for that. Several actually. Mostly because more conservatives live in the producer provinces, while the pampered welfare provinces lean far left. Since at least pappa turdOWE's time, if not before, the ruling class in OntariOWE and Quebec have put up roadblocks to Western prosperity.51st State: Canadian resolve in saying ‘no’ continues, while a massive gap between Trump & Americans is revealed -
60% of Americans say they have no interest in Canada joining, 32% say only if Canada wants to March 12, 2025 – U.S. President Donald Trump continues to escalate his trade war and annexation rhetoric this week, leaving economists, commentators, and even supporters wondering about his motivations...
What gets me is 21 fucking % of Cons would be okay with Canada joining the US.
Come to think of it, ever since confederation, the west has been put at an economic and political disadvantage by central Canada. Ever hear of the Crow freight rate?
Oh, and Doug Ford is not a conservative. He is at best liberal lite, and at worst a turdOWE toady. He would gladly throw the whole country under the bus to save a couple of manufacturing jobs in Ontario.
And no blame on the "Right"? They had power too over the years and never did squat, either provincially or federally.
Spare me your "blame liberals for everything!" bias.
Crock of shit, but not unexpected.
The desire to be part of the US is more a social thing than anything else. And a lack of actual fucking knowledge of how bad things are in the US, TBH.
As for Ford - he's no fucking Liberal, lite or otherwise. He's an egomaniac who is out for himself and himself alone; actually one of the better representations of "Pure Politician" Canada has.