Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, formerly and still informally called the Hotel Vancouver, is a historic hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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10 Facts About Hotel Vancouver
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Hotel Vancouver sits at 900 West Georgia Street, within the Financial District, the central business district of Downtown Vancouver.
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Hotel Vancouver is one of Canada's grand railway hotels, initially built by Canadian National Railway.
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Hotel Vancouver was a part of series of Chateauesque grand railway hotels built throughout Canada in the late-19th and early 20th centuries.
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Chateauesque features found on Hotel Vancouver includes its prominent copper pitched roof with dormers, and carved stonework encompassing a steel frame.
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Fairmont Hotel Vancouver includes 557 guest rooms and suites spread throughout the hotel.
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Suites at Hotel Vancouver include the Lieutenant Governor's Suite and the Royal Suite.
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Plans to develop a railway hotel at the present site of Hotel Vancouver first emerged in the 1920s, from Canadian Northern Railway.
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The first and second Hotel Vancouver were both located southeast of the present hotel on West Georgia Street.
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The second Hotel Vancouver building was torn down in 1949, after Canadian Pacific sold the property to Eaton's in December 1948.
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