The Globe Restaurant
The Globe Hotel, one of the few early inns still to be seen in Ontario,
was built on a Crown Land grant in the 1830′s. The present building, dating from 1859, was one of four hotels in Rosemont, which at that time was a larger community than Alliston.
It served as a local pub, and also as a stopping point for the stage
coach. It played host
to travellers, salesmen, and even Fenian and other political
gatherings. Prohibition in 1919 curbed its legal activities, but it
still accepted overnight guests until 1955. A century has altered its
outward appearance only a little from the original solid, no-nonsense
attitude, it represented. The interior has now been restored and once
again the old dining room welcomes guests with an early Ontario ‘Bill of
Fare’.