The log building known today as the “Bucket of Blood” stands at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Highway 16, but it started life behind what is now the Tweedsmuir Hotel. Constructed by Trygarn Pelham Lyster “Barney” Mulvany as a private residence around 1917, it later became a gambling den and speakeasy. Though the origin of its colourful nickname remains in doubt, old timers say that three professional gamblers—Ed Peterson, Cap Hood, and Ted Conger—used the building as their headquarters in the first half of the twentieth century.