It was supposed to be a routine trip to Montreal for Canadiens fan Jerramy Grover.

He had planned to visit in late November from Halifax with his father, who’s a Montreal native, to watch the Habs play. He reserved a suite at Sonder hotel downtown, just a short walk from the arena.

Then on Nov. 9, the company wrote to tell him his reservation could no longer be honoured. The company, which had hotels in more than 30 countries, had filed for bankruptcy protection and its hotels were shutting almost immediately.

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That left guests like Grover scrambling to salvage their holiday plans and disrupting the middle of stays for others.

The company’s financial troubles had been building for years, something co-founder Francis Davidson la

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