Canadian Pacific Hotels

Canadian Pacific Hotels was a division of the Group Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR ), the operational range of luxury hotels in Canada. Most of these hotels were built by the CPR themselves, others taken over by the Canadian National Hotels. Today they are operated under the name Fairmont Hotels and Resorts.

CPR built two types of hotels: Urban hotels in close proximity to the respective main railway stations as accommodation for Erstklasspassagiere, business people and visitors to the city as well as hotels at a scenic location that have been marketed as tourist destinations. Although the hotel looked different, but walls were made ​​of granite and decorated with copper roofs is a common feature. Some were built so that they resemble European castles.

History

The CPR had 1886 on Rogers Pass, built in Field, in North Bend and Revelstoke smaller hotels to accommodate travelers. These first four hotels were still very modest and were built to cater to routes that were still too steep for the use of the dining car passengers. They were abandoned because they were no longer profitable after the introduction of the dining car.

The first city hotel was opened on May 16, 1888 Hotel Vancouver. Two weeks later, the first rural hotel with the Banff Springs Hotel. The new CPR president William Cornelius Van Horne had selected the location in the Rocky Mountains personally. The Banff Springs Hotel was such a success that the CPR prompted the Canadian government to set up in the vicinity of the first national park in the country, the Banff National Park. There were other hotels in cities and in attractive locations in the mountains. One of the most interesting hotel is the Chateau Montebello, which was the largest built from logs building in the world for many years.

The Grand Trunk Railway and later the Canadian National Railway ( CN) followed the example of the CPR and erected along its rail network also luxury hotels. In 1988 the CPR the hotel chain in the CN and became the largest hotel company in Canada. In the 1990s, the expansion in the United States began. The Delta hotels in 1998, a subsidiary of Canadian Pacific Hotels. With the acquisition of the Fairmont hotel chain in 1999, the company came into the possession of other hotels, including the famous Plaza in New York. In October 2001, the spin-off was the hotel business from the main group, for this purpose, the independent operating company was founded Fairmont Hotels and Resorts.

The original hotels in Montreal, Vancouver and St. John's were demolished and replaced by new buildings. Some of the still existing hotels have become tourist attractions, such as the Château Frontenac in Quebec City. On 20 January 2006, the Fairmont hotel chain was acquired by the corporation Kingdom Hotels International and Colony Capital. It is planned to merge with the hotel chains Swissôtel and Raffles International.

List of Canadian Pacific Hotels

• The Algonquin in St. Andrews, New Brunswick
• Château Frontenac in Quebec City, Quebec (1893 )
• Château Montebello in Montebello, Quebec
• The Queen Elizabeth in Montreal, Quebec (1958 )
• Royal York in Toronto, Ontario
• Hotel Saskatchewan in Regina, Saskatchewan
• Palliser Hotel in Calgary, Alberta (1914 )
• Hotel Macdonald in Edmonton, Alberta (1915 )
• Chateau Lake Louise in Lake Louise, Alberta (1890)
• Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, Alberta (1888 )
• Mount Stephen House in Field, British Columbia ( 1886)
• Hotel Vancouver in Vancouver, British Columbia ( 1939)
• Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia ( 1908)

Former CN Hotels ( acquired in 1988 ):

• Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, opened in 1958
• Château Laurier, Ottawa, Ontario, opened in 1912
• Hotel Macdonald, Edmonton, Alberta, opened in 1915

Former CP Hotels:

• Hotel Plaza, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, opened in 1975, sold the building in 1980.
• Plaza Hotel, Hamburg, Germany, opened in 1973 and sold in 1988.