Women’s wages in 1850s at Windsor Hotel

February 5, 2026 @ 8:32 amColumns, Pieces of the Past

Black and white photo of staff standing in a row, in white blouses and black skirts.
Domestic staff of the Windsor Hotel in Stratford in the early 1900s. (Stratford-Perth Archives photo)

Betty Jo Belton,  Stratford-Perth Archives The women pictured in this photograph were the domestic staff of the Windsor Hotel in Stratford in the early 1900s.  The woman standing second from the left has been identified as Eleanor Herborth.  Eleanor married William Eisler in 1912 and the couple farmed on Lot 26 Concession 4 in Logan…

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