The Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise Hotel is located in the Banff National Park UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Glacier Wing (second from the right) was constructed from 1988-1992. |
Tyndall limestone is from Manitoba.
The following railway hotels were clad with Indiana limestone:
1.) Chateau Laurier - Ottawa, Ontario.
2.) Fairmont Hotel Macdonald - Edmonton, Alberta.
3.) Fort Garry Hotel - Winnipeg, Manitoba.
4.) Fairmont Royal York Hotel - Toronto, Ontario.
Buildings that are constructed with limestone can last for thousands of years; as I have said before, the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt is 4,000 years old.
Lord Elgin Hotel - Prime Minister Mackenzie King chose the stone from a quarry in the Niagara Region.
Kingston, Ontario is known as "The Limestone City" because many notable buildings were created with local limestone.
Old Kingston Post Office
The CNR Outer Station on Montreal Street.
Kingston Penitentiary
Prison for Women
Church of the Good Thief
Isabel MacNeill Halfway House for Women
Penitentiary Museum on King Street
Collins Bay Institution
Stone Gables
Royal Military College of Canada.
Queen's University - local and Niagara Region limestone.
Fort Henry National Historic Site of Canada.
Penitentiary Water Tower
Rockwood Asylum
The Armoury on Montreal Street
Kingston General Hospital
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The Canadian pavilion at the Epcot Center, Disney World in Orlando, Florida is modeled after Ottawa's Chateau Laurier Hotel. The "Hotel du Canada" was built in 1982. |
Union Station became the Conference Centre. |
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