CP Hotels
CP built hotels along its railway routes across Canada. The first hotels were originally built in 1886 primarily to provide meal service for passengers in the Rocky Mountains where railway grades were too severe to justify the operation of Dining Cars. CP's hotel network later expanded to include the Château Frontenac in Quebec City, Quebec, Chateau Lake Louise on Lake Louise in Alberta, the Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, Alberta, The Empress in Victoria, BC, the Royal York in Toronto, Ontario, and The Algonquin in St. Andrews, New Brunswick among others.
In 2001, CP acquired US hotelier Fairmont (est. 1907) and merged it with CP Hotels to form Fairmont Hotels and Resorts. In some of the former CP Hotels, CP retained stores selling CPR related items under the banner "CP Store".
Stock Code: None - privately held company
Headquarters: Toronto, Ontario
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