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Château Laurier and the Château style

The Château Laurier in Ottawa, south view, photographed in 2017.
The Château Laurier in Ottawa, south view, photographed in 2017. Château Laurier, Ottawa, South view 20170422 1 · DXR · Photo source · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.
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The Château Laurier in Ottawa, built between 1908 and 1912, was the first of a series of hotels by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway to draw tourists to its transcontinental routes. The Château style of Canadian railway hotels evolved into a distinctly Canadian architectural type, and the hotel’s closeness to Parliament made it a model for that style.

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The hotel as an architectural type, not its later additions or ownership.

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