The Brightside Hotel
Gender
Like other drinking establishments throughout Ontario, men and women entered the Brightside Hotel through separate doors, and ‘ladies and their escorts’ drank separately from the men’s room. The smaller and quieter ladies’ beverage room admitted males only with female accompaniment.
![Tidy exterior photo of the Brightside Hotel.](https://hamiltoncivicmuseums.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/The_Watering_Hole.jpg)
![Brightside Hotel Ladies and Escorts Beverage Room.](https://hamiltoncivicmuseums.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Hotel_Bar_Ladies_And_Escorts.jpg)
![Brightside Hotel Beverage Room.](https://hamiltoncivicmuseums.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Hotel_Bar_Beverage_Room.jpg)
Listen: Separating The Men From The Women. Click the play circle below.
Listen: The Ladies And Their Escorts. Click the play circle below.