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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SBSVC, post: 235303, member: 136&quot;]Apparently, New Year&#039;s Eve parties were &quot;quite the thing&quot; at the Royal Connaught in Ontario, from at least the 1940&#039;s thru at least 1984.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a couple of snippets I found online:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://royalconnaught.com/fond-memories-of-the-connaught/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://royalconnaught.com/fond-memories-of-the-connaught/" rel="nofollow">http://royalconnaught.com/fond-memories-of-the-connaught/</a></p><p><b>Published in:&nbsp; <i>The Hamilton Spectator</i></b></p><p>20/01/2013 – Doreen Brunt on the west Mountain has fond memories of the Connaught. She worked there as a young woman <b>in the ’40s and ’50s</b> for the American Can Company, which occupied the upper floors of the hotel. She and friends spent lunch breaks on the “circus roof,” which for years was one of the downtown’s top live music venues. She once met Tony Bennett in the Connaught dining room.</p><p><b><i>“<i>It was a really booming place. It was the place to go,” she said. “They had the most amazing New Year’s Eve parties — everybody wore long dresses, it was very elegant.”</i></i></b></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/50s/1950/Billboard%201950-12-30.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/50s/1950/Billboard%201950-12-30.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/50s/1950/Billboard 1950-12-30.pdf</a></p><p>from <i>Billboard</i></p><p>AFM Boycotts Canadian Inns</p><p>TORONTO, Dec. 23, <b>1950</b>.</p><p>-The American Federation of Musicians (AFM) has blacklisted the &quot;Royal group of the Sheraton Hotel chain, with the result that orchestras in five hotels will not play at Christmas and New Year&#039;s, Placed on the &quot;unfair&quot; list by the union are .the Mount Royal in Montreal, the King Edward in Toronto; the General Brock, Niagara Falls; <b>Royal Connaught</b>, Hamilton, and the Prince Edward in Windsor. Arthur Dowell, secretary-treasurer of the union in Toronto, declined comment. Union&#039;s actions stem from a dispute between the labor body and the King Edward Hotel. The union insisted the hotel employ 16 musicians, while the hotel offered to use 11 men.</p><p><br /></p><p><i><a href="http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=146837&amp;page=8" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=146837&amp;page=8" rel="nofollow">http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=146837&amp;page=8</a></i></p><p>Work had started on <b>a final 1984 New Year&#039;s Eve party</b>, at which guests would be allowed to cart off some of their favourite furniture.</p><p><br /></p><p>************************************************************</p><p><br /></p><p>My guess is that your trinket box was a party favor at one of those New Year&#039;s Eve events. Which year, however, I have no idea. As souvenirs go, it&#039;s a nice one![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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