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The Cooksville Inn
Former names	The Cooksville House, Royal Exchange, The Morley House
General information
Town or city	Mississauga
Country	Canada
Coordinates	43.58058°N 79.61642°W / 43.58058; -79.61642
Opened	1829
Demolished	1954

The Cooksville Inn was an inn located in Cooksville, Mississauga.

History

In 1829, The Cooksville House, the first hotel in Harrisville, now modern day Cooksville, was built by Jacob Cook. The building functioned as an inn, post office, and stopover for the stagecoach line between Toronto and Hamilton until the 1850s when the expansion of the Great Western Railway made traveling long distance by horse obsolete.

In 1852, a fire destroyed much of Cooksville, including The Cooksville House. Cook gave control of the ruined building to William Harris, who rebuilt and renamed it The Royal Exchange.

In 1859, after Harris abandonded the building, Francis Morley took control and renamed it The Morley House. Morley obtained a liquor license 1864, now allowing the inn to function as a tavern.

In 1883, James Haines King took control of the running of the business, and later in 1883, he bought the building for $6,000 from Miles Cook. When King passed away in 1904, his son, James, who was 19 at the time, held onto the building for a year before selling it to J. C. Ward.

In 1906, it was then sold to George Frederick Bowers, who renamed it The Cooksville House. During this time, the building was modernized with electric wiriring, steam heating, and seperate hot and cold water to each of the rooms. With Cooksville growing in size, Bowers added a pool room and barber shop behind the building. With the growth of the temperance movement, the inn's liquor license was revoked and Bowers decided to give control to Frank Harris, who had been running the pool hall.

In 1928, after Bowers passed away, Jack Braithwaite bought the inn. The building was then passed through many hands until eventually being sold to M. Mucha in 1953, who then sold the building to CIBC