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Sinclair Inn

Sinclair Inn is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Sinclair Inn rather than just read about it. In short: The Sinclair Inn is an inn located in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia (Canada). Resulting from the amalgamation of two early eighteenth-century houses, it is one of the only two surviving Acadian buildings in the Annapolis Royal region to have survived from before the Great Upheaval (1750-1780), with the other being the De Gannes-Cosby House.

Key takeaways

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Reference excerpt

The Sinclair Inn is an inn located in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia (Canada). Resulting from the amalgamation of two early eighteenth-century houses, it is one of the only two surviving Acadian buildings in the Annapolis Royal region to have survived from before the Great Upheaval (1750-1780), with the other being the De Gannes-Cosby House. It was also the site of the first Masonic lodge in Canada in 1738. It was used as an inn between 1780 and 1950. It was then converted into a museum. The building was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1983. It was also listed as a municipal heritage property in 1982 and as a provincial heritage property in 1992.

Location The Sinclair Inn is located at 230 St. George Street in downtown Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is within the Annapolis Royal Historic District, designated a National Historic Site of Canada.

History The Sinclair Inn was created by combining two pre-existing houses. The first was built between 1708 and 1710 for Jean-Baptiste Soullard, a gunsmith and silversmith at the Port-Royal garrison in Acadia. The second, the rear two-thirds, was built in 1711 for Dr. William Skene, a surgeon in the British garrison at Fort Anne (the fort was transferred to Great Britain following the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713). The walls of Skeene House are made of wattle and daub. In 1738, Skene House hosted the first meeting of a Masonic lodge in Canada, founded by Erasmus James Philipps, a member of the Nova Scotia Council. In 1781, the German-born innkeeper Frederick Sinclair (born Zeiglar) combined the two houses to form an inn, adding a door to the front and a dormer window to the gable wall, which added a Georgian style to the building. Sinclair also decided to build a second story on Skene House, giving the inn its current shape. Before the conversion of the Soullard and Skene houses, Sinclair had run his inn in the Adams-Ritchie house. On February 24, 1787, he bought a slave named Jane for 21 British pounds from Richard Betts of New York. Just before 1800, Frederick Sinclair announced his desire to return to Hanover and put his properties in Annapolis and Granville up for sale. He fell ill and died at the end of 1799. His widow, Mary, continued to run the inn. On his death in 1814, his daughter Hannah inherited the inn. It then passed into the hands of Thomas Edison, a carpenter, before being sold in 1818 to Antonio Gavaza. Antonio Gavaza, an Italian immigrant, arrived in Annapolis Royal in the early 19th century. He bought the inn for 350 pounds. And in 1825, he bought an adjacent lot to the south, where he built a general store with lodging for himself on the second floor. The inn continued to operate, but it is unclear whether Gavaza operated directly or by lease. In 1858, Thomas A. Gavaza, Antonio's son, sold the inn to Simon Bishop for 550 pounds. Simon Bishop soon sold the inn to Charles Starratt, who sold it back to Bishop. Unable to pay the mortgage, Bishop declared bankruptcy, and the inn was sold at auction to Haligonian merchants Alexander McLeod, Thomas Bayne, and John W. Sinclair for 130 pounds. They sold the inn to Robert Wyllie of Granville in 1863, who then sold it to William Anderson from Annapolis Royal in 1865. Anderson operated the inn under the name Temperance House. On his death, the inn passed into the hands of his son Eben, who changed the name to Anderson's Hotel. Unable to pay the mortgage, he sold the inn at auction for C$1,610 to Aubrey S. Hunt and J. Johnstone Hunt in 1896. A few months later it was sold to Hugh Gillis, a lawyer, for C$1,860. On January 12, 1987, the inn was sold to David Riordan for $2,175.

The Riordans were a family of innkeepers involved in lodging in Annapolis Royal. In addition to the Sinclair Inn, they operated the Dominion Hotel, the Queen Hotel, and Clifton House. David owned both the Queen Hotel and the Sinclair Inn. In 1910, David sold the Inn to William 'Bill' Edwards and moved to British Columbia to run a hotel and then go into ranching. Bill Edwards was an eccentric character who owned a pet monkey, which the Annapolis Spectator newspaper had fun describing. He was also known for his love of horses. He sold the inn in 1922 and died the following year.There is little information about the history of the inn, which was owned by James and Lalia Wallace from Middleton, Nova Scotia. They operated the inn under the name Annapolis Royal Hotel. In 1938, they sold the business to Stewart and Jean Mills of Granville. Stewart Mills, a successful businessman, obtained the Ford automobile dealership for Annapolis County in 1931. In addition to the inn, he bought land for a filling station, which he leased from Irving Oil in the late 1930s. He also owned a taxi service and a bus service linking Victoria Beach and Digby to Annapolis Royal. Although he sold alcohol at his service station, he was a sober man and the Sinclair Inn did not have a liquor license. Stewart died of pneumonia in Annapolis Royal in 1956. His widow put the inn up for sale, ending the lodging business in the building almost 150 years after it opened. In 1981, in recognition of the building's historic value, the National Trust for Canada purchased the inn and restored the deteriorating structure. The Inn was then transferred to the Annapolis Heritage Society to house a museum. In the late 1990s, the Society began work on the building, including repairing the siding and shingles on the roof. On January 20, 1982, the Town of Annapolis Royal listed the Inn as a municipal heritage property. The Sinclair Inn was designated a National Historic Site of Canada on June 13, 1983, by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. The Province of Nova Scotia designated the Inn as a Provincial Heritage Property on June 14, 1991.

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Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Sinclair Inn

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Sinclair Inn claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Sinclair Inn before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Sinclair Inn ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Sinclair Inn

In research: Sinclair Inn appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Sinclair Inn in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Sinclair Inn is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Buildings and structures completed in 1711, Buildings and structures on the National Historic Sites of Canada register, Georgian architecture in Canada, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Sinclair Inn outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Sinclair Inn in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
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Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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