shoebox-style

 119-121 Slater is an oddly styled building, though not the only example of this sort of thing I've come across in the downtown core. It presents as a single-storey business address of modest frontage, but extends back to a surprising depth — like a shoebox, indeed, almost like two shoeboxes glued end-to-end. To be precise, the building is three times as deep as it is wide.

Obviously 20th Century, probably cinder-block (possibly Hayley), I'm having trouble fixing a date on the structure because in so many aerial photos, the office tower immediately to the west is so tall as to block one's view of the lot. Goad shows a narrow, 2½-storey brick house here ("#121") in 1912. At that time, newspaper ads suggest this was the home of G. W. King, paperhanger, whose wife was wont to run ads for servant girls, "preferably Protestant" — hey, with a name like "King"...

Going way back, (Goad 1878) there was a curling rink on the site. Canadian or what, eh?