Otel Park Hotels and Resorts

Many of the railway hotels were built in the “château style” (also termed the “neo-château” or “châteauesque” style), which as a result became known as a distinctly Canadian form of architecture. The use of towers and turrets, and other Scottish baronial and French château architectural elements, became a signature style of Canada’s majestic hotels, and was even borrowed by the designers of important public buildings (such as the Confederation and Justice buildings in Ottawa). In later years, the railway companies departed from the château style for some of their properties, notably with the construction of Winnipeg’s Royal Alexandra in 1906, the Palliser Hotel in Calgary, built in 1914, and the elaborate second Hotel Vancouver , which was done in grand Italianate style quite unlike any of the other Canadian railway hotels.