Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Page 55 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 6024 FOCUS - APRIL 2017 & & & Then& &Now Then & Now is an excerpt from the Rewind Scugog series of books by J. Peter Hvidsten. Rewind Scugog books are available at Book’s Galore & More, Perry Street, Port Perry This large attractive hotel, at the corner of Queen and Water Street, literally rose out of the ashes of Port Perry's great 1884 fire. The hotel was owned and operated by Louis Sebert until his death in 1902. Since that time the building has been owned by a number of people. The hotel operated successfully into the 1950s, but it gradually evolved into a rooming house, and later was converted to apartments on the upper floors 1978 1888 Sketch SEBERT HOUSE HOTEL and retail stores on the main level. During the 1960s and 1970s, it was the location of a number of shops, which include Bill Carnegie's Real Estate, Jessie Hope's Smoke Shop, Bruce Kellett's Variety store, Durham TV Service and Ross McLean radio repairs in the small white building at the rear of the hotel. The property was purchased by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in 1978. The old hotel, that had served the community for close to a century, was then demolished to make room for a new bank building. The CIBC building, a red brick, single storey structure, was officially opened in 1980.