Château
Frontenac, a grand hotel, is one of the
main attractions of Québec City,
Quebec. Designed by architect Bruce Price,
the Château Frontenac was one of
the first of a long series of "chateau"
style hotels built for the Canadian Pacific
Railway company at the end of the 19th
and the start of the 20th century. It
opened in 1893. The railway company sought
to encourage luxury tourism and bring
moneyed travelers to its trains. Château
Frontenac is a "cousin" to Chateau
Lake Louise on the shores of Lake Louise
in Alberta.
The
Château Frontenac was named in honor
of Louis Buade, Count of Frontenac, who
was governor of the colony of New France
from 1672 to 1682 and 1689 to 1698. The
chateau was built not too far from the
historical Citadelle, whose construction
Frontenac had begun at the end of the
18th century. The Quebec Conference of
1943 in which Winston Churchill and Franklin
D. Roosevelt discussed strategy for World
War II was held at the Citadelle while
much of the staff stayed nearby in the
Château Frontenac. (William Lyon
Mackenzie King was invited to some meetings
as a courtesy to Canada.)
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