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a post on myers message board from bmontpellier: "Daniel ran the Mires (sic) Hotel which is now in Upper Canada village, a national historic park near Williamsburg."

note by Oswegachie Roots - http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=stlawrencevalley&id=I11494
"Willard's Hotel (now located at Upper Canada Village)

"Originally built in 1785 by Daniel Mayers, a New York Loyalist whose family came from the Palatinate region of Germany, as a house, it was also used as an inn. It was known to travellers as the "Halfway House" because it was located centrally between Cornwall and Prescott. The inn was purchased in the 1830s by John Willard, a tavern keeper from Montreal who came north from the United States.

It is restored to 1850, at which time it would have been at the height of its prosperity. The use of contemporary prints, chairs, wallpaper and curtains reflects the desire of rural innkeepers to copy the elegant styles of the new large hotels in the cities of mid 19th Century North America.

Like many of the other houses in the village, the fact that the building required few alterations over the years reflects the high quality of building material available hundreds of years ago.

You will find Willard's Hotel on Queen Street, just past Crysler Store, in the Village. Willard's Hotel is one of the oldest buildings on the site. It was constructed in the late 1790s and restored to the style of the 1850s. Daniel Myers, son of the earliest owner Jacob Myers, took out a tavern licence in 1815.

"Today, the hotel is a full-service restaurant where costumed staff will serve you a period style meal such as a scotch egg plate, fricasseed chicken with mushrooms or the Victorian tradition of afternoon tea. . . Seating indoors holds 92."

http://www.bafoodservices.ca/willhistory.htm:
"Willard's Hotel was built not far from this location in Williamsburg Township c. 1795 by Jacob Myers, a New York Loyalist whose family came from the Palatine region of Germany. The building is typical of Loyalist frame architecture, with its plain clapboard siding and symmetrical central hall design.

In the 1830's the inn was purchased by John Willard, a tavern keeper from Montreal who had, like Myers, come north from the United States. Willard managed the Hotel with his wife Elizabeth and their son Matthew. He operated the hotel during its heyday when it was a popular stopover along the Prescott to Cornwall stage route. Prior to the completion of the St. Lawrence canals, this was a busy thoroughfare for visitors travelling into Upper Canada who were, at the time, required to travel from Montreal to Prescott by land in order to avoid the St. Lawrence rapids which interrupted navigation on the river.

Willard's Hotel, like others in the area, provided lodging and food for travellers and their horses. Lodgers would have eaten with the family and would have shared in the family's daily meals. Accomodation would have been at a premium with competition among the guests for the favoured sleeping quarters.

By the 1850s railroads and a series of elaborate canals which skirted the rapids caused travellers to by-pass the taverns and inns along the upper St. Lawrence River and most of them went out of business. At the same time, John Willard died, leaving the Hotel to his son Matthew. "

More about Daniel Myers who built Willard's Inn - http://books.google.com/books?id=auInAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA163&ots=a3f8LxTiVr&dq=%22Frederick%20Augustus%20MYERS%22&pg=PA40#v=snippet&q=%22Daniel%20Myers%22&f=false
However our Daniel would have been only 2 years old!

"Williamsburgh Twp. in historical DUNDAS Co.
Opened in 1787, although the settlement began in 1784. Daniel Myers, on Lot 21, Concession 1, built in 1785 a fine frame house which was a famous hotel for many years. The Battle of Chrysler’s Farm was fought on Lot 12, Concession 1. A monument was erected there in 1885."
Jesse E. Middleton, The Province of Ontario: a History: 1615-1927, published 1927

kdd: these dates for the hotel are inconsistent, but I am inclined to think it was built later when Daniel was a young man, as the main webpage for the hotel attests: "Originally built in the 1790s by Daniel Myers, a New York Loyalist whose family came from the Palatinate region of Germany, as a house, it was also used as an inn. It was known to travellers as the "Halfway House" because it was located centrally between Cornwall and Prescott. " http://www.uppercanadavillage.com/things-to-do/tour-the-village/willard-s-hotel1/ , and also here: "You will find Willard's Hotel on Queen Street, just past Crysler Store, in the Village. Willard's Hotel is one of the oldest buildings on the site. It was constructed in the late 1790s and restored to the style of the 1850s. Daniel Myers, son of the earliest owner Jacob Myers, took out a tavern licence in 1815. The building was later bought by John Willard in 1830." http://www.uppercanadavillage.com/dining-and-shopping/dining/willards-hotel/

Cannot account for marriage of Daniel Myers and Catherine Link in Ontario 1828. See family note on son Jacob Daniel Myers.
Note Catherine Link Myers land petition in Dundas 1835 - http://www.ontariogenealogy.com/uppercanadalandpetitions/m_landpetition.html
Could she have married Daniel Myers, Sr who died in 1835?