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The Halifax Hotel, built on Hollis Street in Halifax, N.S. in 1839, was incorporated in 1840, and opened in 1841 by a joint stock company called the Halifax Hotel Company. In its first two years of operation the hotel was leased by Hinckley and Parker of New York who recruited Henry Hesslein as the proprietor. In 1850, the federal government leased the hotel to accomodate military officers. In 1852 it was closed for several years and finally sold to Hezekiah Cogswell. Harry Hesslein again took over the lease in 1861 and the Halifax Hotel continued under the ownership of Harry Hesslein and Sons from 1868 until 1930. Edmund L. MacDonald bought the hotel in 1931 and immediately sold it to Commercial Hotel Limited, who remained its owners until it closed on 14 May 1943.