sentences:  In 1912, he re-entered the hotel business by becoming President of the Royal Hotel Company Limited, which opened the Royal Hotel in 1913 to replace another hotel that had burned down.Though the hotel was "the best north of Edmonton, the advent of Prohibition in 1915 put an end to its viability, and it was soon closed and demolished.In the meantime, in 1914, he and Hebert had acquired a paddleboat called the Ste.