The bar in Calgary’s Riverside Hotel after soldiers and civilians ransacked it in February 1916, mistakenly believing the business was owned by Germans. [W.J. Oliver/University of Calgary/CU198005] Private Gottfried Kraft pitched a rock through the front window of the White Lunch café on 8th Avenue S.E. in Calgary. It was Feb. 10, 1916, and the recruit of the 89th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, had just started an anti-German riot.