Canadian Pacific Hotels is a division of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) that operates a series of resort hotels in Canada. Most of the hotel was originally built and operated by the railroad hotel department, while some others were obtained from the National Hotel of Canada. Today, they are operated under the Fairmont name, and remain the most exclusive hotels in Canada.
CPR builds two types of hotels: urban hotels and rural resort hotels. Urban hotels are located near the city's main passenger station and are intended for use by elite CPR train passengers. These hotels cater to businessmen and visitors to their respective cities, as well as passengers who need overnight accommodation between connecting trains. Rural resort hotels are located in an area served by CPR that has a unique landscape, allowing this property to be marketed as a tourist destination for passenger train travelers. Some of these resort hotels also function as "stationary dining cars", where passenger travel is fed and placed, without a train having to carry heavy meals and a car kitchen over a difficult terrain.
The hotels have different architectures in appearance, but materials such as granite walls and copper roofs are common elements. Many of these structures were constructed to look somewhat similar to European palaces. One of the unique CPR hotels is Chateau Montebello, which for many years is the largest log building in the world. Algonquin Tudor style in St Andrews, New Brunswick also stands out because it is one of several Canadian Pacific Hotels that is not built by CPR itself. The original hotels were built in the Rocky Mountains to attract tourists from eastern Canada, combining local attractions such as superb scenery and therapeutic mineral thermal springs.
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In 1886, CPR had built several small hotels to accommodate travelers, including Glacier House in Glacier National Park at Rogers Pass and Mount Stephen House in Field, British Columbia. Other small hotels were soon built in Kicking Horse Pass, North Bend in Fraser Canyon, Sicamous on Shuswap Lake, and Revelstoke. Some of the lower pioneer hostels are designed primarily to provide passenger service in the Rocky Mountains, where the train class is too heavy to justify the operation of the dining car (see Big Hill), though Glacier House and Sicamous Hotel are destination hotels. in their own right. All the companies operate successfully for several years, but are abandoned as hotels, when through a meal car service makes their care unprofitable. Glacier House attracted many mountain protectors until the main passenger service diversion to the Southern Mainline left it off the beaten track, and the resort also stopped operating.
Other small hotels are operated in the Kootenays area south of the main line, especially at Balfour where Balfour House is a ferry-passing lodge that connects Kootenay Lake, which is an integral part of Southern Mainline's services. In 1886, Van Horne built the Fraser Canyon House in North Bend (part of the Boston Bar), and locally called on that day the CPR Hotel. Later changed its name to North Bend Hotel, the original structure burned in 1927, with the second hotel built in 1929 but no longer exists.
CPR's Hotel Department for tourist accommodation operations began with the opening of the Hotel Vancouver on May 16, 1888, this is the first of three hotels owned by that name in Vancouver. Two weeks later, the Banff Springs Hotel officially opened on June 1, 1888. The newly appointed CPR President William Cornelius Van Horne personally selected the Rocky Mountains location for a new hotel, and he envisioned a series of large hotels in Canada that would attract visitors from abroad to the train.
The original Banff Springs Hotel, though much smaller than this hotel, became such a direct hit among tourists from the 1880s, CPR encouraged the federal government to build Canada's first national park in the surrounding area; eventually leading to a national park network across the nation. Hotels in major metropolitan areas served by CPR are soon followed and are intended for use by travelers and business travelers.
Chateau Lake Louise, opened in 1890 as a one-story building of logs construction, is also popular for tourists. The subsequent additions were made to it in 1893, 1900, 1906, 1911, 1913, 1924 and reconstruction in 1925. The addition to the Banff Springs Hotel was completed in 1911, 1914, 1926 and 1928, required by the increasing volume of tourist traffic.
In addition to hotels, CPR also operates five camp bungalows throughout the country. It is owned, operated or leased a number of camps, tea houses and chalets in remote parts of the Rockies served by the Canada Pacific line. These include Emerald Lake Chalet and Yoho Valley Lodge, Field; Lake O'Hara and Lake Wapta Lodges at Hector and Moraine Lake Lodge in Lake Louise. The tea houses are located in Twin Falls, the Plains of Six Glaciers, and Lake Agnes, near Lake Louise.
The first of the company's eastern hotel, ChÃÆ' Â ¢ teau Frontenac opened in Quebec City on December 11, 1893, while the subsequent addition in 1904, 1906, 1916 and 1923, which included a large central tower, made it one of the best hotels in Canada. It was further enhanced in 1926. and in 1992-1993 with the addition of the Claude-Pratte wing.
The Place Viger Hotel, now one of Montreal's renowned landmarks, is the city's leading hostelry for many years. Founded in 1898, its adjacent hotels and terminals served most of the public travel until 1935 when the hotel ceased to operate.
For the construction of the next Canadian Pacific hotel, the spotlights shifted westward again, when the small hotel in Sicamous, British Columbia opened in 1900. Shuswap Ovelooking Lake, Sicamous Hotel is a favorite place for tourists to visit. Once owned and operated by CPR, operations in subsequent years, are under lease. The hotel was demolished in 1964.
In 1901, the McAdam Hotel one of CPR's small hotels opened in McAdam, New Brunswick, the gateway to St. Andrews-by-the-Sea and other popular holiday resorts. The following year saw the opening of Emerald Lake Chalet, near Field, British Columbia. Its proximity to Banff and Lake Louise is increasing in popularity in Rocky Mountain vacation pictures. In 1903, the Algonquin hotel in St. Petersburg. Andrews was taken over by CPR.
The next link on the CPR hotel chain surfaced in Winnipeg, when the Royal Alexandra Hotel was completed in 1906. A substantial addition was made in 1914 in this popular prairie hostelry, the largest CPR hotel between Toronto and Calgary. The hotel is directly connected to the train station, and enjoys a luxurious career for many years. However, in the mid-1960s with increasing airline dominance, and the physical location of hotels, the number of guests had declined significantly. The Royal Alexandra closed in December 1967, and was destroyed in 1971.
The Empress Hotel, the famous hostelry of CPR in Victoria, British Columbia, was established two years later and officially opened on 20 January 1908. Additional wings have been added, most recently in 1929. Like Royal Alexandra, the Queen is also a candidate for demolition in mid 1960s, however, this famous Canadian landmark was renovated and renewed and has since undergone a further restoration to its original elegance, before the war.
The Palliser Hotel in Calgary joined the CPR hotel family in 1914 when it opened to the public. This handsome and stylish hostelry near the foot of Rocky Mountain was enlarged in 1929. In 1927, in the neighboring province of Saskatchewan, the company opened the Saskatchewan Hotel in Regina, which soon became a favorite stop for visitors to the Western City Queen.
The Royal York Hotel, once called the largest hotel in the United Kingdom and one of the best on the continent, opened its doors on June 11, 1929. A famous landmark on the Toronto skyline, one of its attractions is said to be a spectacular view overlooking a vast expanse Lake Ontario, a feature that seems to have gone missing from the recent Harbourfront condo development.
The success of CPR's subsidiary tourism in Nova Scotia, Dominion Atlantic Railway, leads CPR to invest in a series of Nova Scotian hotels. CPR was the main investor at the Lord Nelson Hotel built in Halifax in 1927 to rival Canada's National Nova Scotian Hotel. Next is the construction in 1929 of a new, stylish baronial style Cornwallis Inn in Kentville, Nova Scotia in the Annapolis Valley and redevelopment of Digby Pines Hotel in Digby. The Nova Scotian chain was completed in June 1931 with the new rustic Lakeside Inn resort in Yarmouth.
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Prior to the acquisition of the Fairmont network, CP Hotels operated two hotels in Israel, three in Germany and one in the United States. All these properties were transferred to another carrier in the late 1980s. By the end of 1960 CP Hotel took over the operation of two hotels in Mexico. One in Mexico City and the other in Acapulco.
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CPR's rivals Grand Trunk Railway and then the Canadian National Railway imitate Van Horne approach by building hotels such as Jasper Park Lodge in Jasper, Alberta, and Chateau Laurier in Ottawa. CPR bought CN hotel chain in 1988, making Canadian Pacific Hotels and Resorts (CP Hotels) the largest hotel owner in the country. In the 1990s, CP Hotels began to expand and purchase Canada's Delta Hotels and international Princess Hotels network in 1998, which became a wholly owned subsidiary of CP. The following year in 1999 the company experienced a significant expansion in its international ownership when it purchased the San Francisco-based Fairmont Hotels and Resorts chain, gaining control of the famous hotels as The Plaza in New York City.
In April 1999, Canadian Pacific Hotels & amp; Resorts Inc. announced that it is working with Kingdom Hotels (USA) Ltd. and Maritz Wolff & amp; Co. to form Fairmont Hotel Management L.P. CP will own 67 percent stake in the company, Royal and Maritz each have 16.5 percent interest.
In 2001, Canadian Pacific Limited's parents reorganized and changed its name to a subsidiary of Pacific Hotels and Resorts Canada as Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, borrowing the name of the company that had been purchased in 1999. The recently organized Fairmont company shuffled some properties into Delta- her subsidiary, while retaining many of the original signature resorts of Fairmont and CP Hotels under the new Fairmont banner. Later that year in October 2001, Canadian Pacific Limited separated all its subsidiaries into independently traded "independent" companies, including Canadian Pacific Railway and Fairmont Hotels and Resorts.
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