THE BRANDON SUN • Lake Life • SATURDAY, MAY 24, 2025
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The Stowaway Inn was probably the most epic project that we’ve worked on since our inception, which is only three years ago, but that was a two- year renovation - it was a wild project
Gillian Sullivan
Above: Denning bears at the Wasagaming cottage project. (Kelly Dickson) Below: Stone’s Throw Rentals Onanole being moved onto its new foundation. (Submitted)
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in now because they saw the state of disrepair the building was in and to see it brought back to life is a pretty wonderful thing. People seem to really appreciate that.” Gillian Sullivan says she and Joel St. Pierre place a high value on the rela- tionships they have developed with their both their clients and the hotel guests. “We did a new cabin for some clients last summer, and this April, our clients reached out to us just to say they really missed talking to us every day,” she says. “We feel very lucky that we get to work so closely with our clients. We love what we do.” As for the bears - they just go with the territory.
Sullivan purchased the property, which was in very rough shape, in 2021. After salvaging what they could, the company began an extensive proj- ect to restore and modernize it from the ground up. Fully operational since July 2023, the 12,000-square-foot hotel spans two floors and boasts 24 rooms. Each of the rooms has its own person- ality and they vary somewhat from one another. “The Stowaway Inn was proba- bly the most epic project that we’ve worked on since our inception, which is only three years ago, but that was a two-year renovation - it was a wild project,” she says. The hotel is in its third year running. “It’s been amazing. The guests that come to stay are all really wonderful and appreciate the work that went into getting the hotel to the state that it’s
The company is nearly finished a unique project of their own - Stone’s Throw Rentals Onanole. “One cool project that we’re just about a month away from finishing is a building that was moved from down- town Wasagaming,” she says. “We moved it out to Onanole and have completely renovated the interior and exterior and we’ll be maintaining it as a small hotel building, and it will be standing for another 100 years.” Sullivan St. Pierre Construction has another big project on the drawing board. “It’s just in the design phases, but we will be building another large hotel building across the street from The Stowaway Inn,” she says. “We’re really hoping that we can get started on construction later this summer.” The Stowaway Inn (thestowawayinn. ca) is located at 119 Ta-Wa-Pit Drive in Wasagaming in Riding Mountain National Park. It is a complete reno- vation/re-construction of the original hotel which was built in 1932. “That project was probably the cata- lyst for us starting our company in the first place,” says St.Pierre. “Lots of people that would have stayed there decades ago have some pretty cool stories about their times there. I think it was a bit of a wild hotel in the ‘60s and ‘70s.”
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