Saturday, July 13, 2019

The Canadian National Railway hotels were government of Canada properties until 1988.

Private companies that do not care about my country's railway and architectural history own the Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ottawa and the Hotel Vancouver. This is what legendary author Pierre Berton thought about Fairmont being the custodian of Canada's landmarks:
     "After our talk, Pierre and I had sandwiches at the Hotel Vancouver. "It's now called the ----ing Fairmont" he declared in the disparaging tone appropriate to any historian of the CPR when the railway's hotel chain acquired an American firm and took its name. "We have to preserve our nationhood...We are different. Our background is different. We have to sing our own songs and create our own heroes, dream our own dreams or we won't have a country at all."(From: "Remembering Pierre Berton" by Patricia Treble, Macleans Magazine, December 13, 2004.)
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Canadian National Railway hotels that should be Crown property, collectively owned by all Canadians and their descendants:
Chateau Laurier - Ottawa - Larco
Hotel Vancouver - British Columbia - Larco
Queen Elizabeth - Montreal
Hotel Fort Garry - Winnipeg
Hotel Macdonald - Edmonton
Scribe Hotel, Paris - sold shortly before the CNR was privatized in 1995.
Skydome Hotel - Toronto - built on the grounds of the Spadina Roundhouse designed by Anglin-Norcross. Larco
Jasper Park Lodge - Alberta
Bessborough - Saskatoon
Beausejour - Moncton, New Brunswick
Nova Scotian - Halifax.
The "disposal" of Canada's Eiffel Towers and Taj Mahal's to Canadian Pacific Railway. 1988.




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