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Power Trip: Charging the Castle
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Power Trip: Charging the Castle
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The Fort Garry Hotel s regal facade and grand interior hearken back to a more glamorous time By: Alison Gillmor | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Monday, Jul. 19, 2021 Save to Read Later
When you’re wedged into a middle seat on a packed airplane, sustained only by bad coffee and a packet of pretzels, glamorous travel can seem like an impossible dream.
When you’re wedged into a middle seat on a packed airplane, sustained only by bad coffee and a packet of pretzels, glamorous travel can seem like an impossible dream.
But around the turn of the 20th century, luxury train journeys across Canada involved roomy sleeping berths, white-linen dining service and observation cars with expansive windows that framed the changing views. For those who could afford it, the journey was as pleasurable as the destination.
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But did you know we established the global template for railway hotels, a grandiose architectural form unique to our shores?
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Given that construction of a transcontinental railway was instrumental in cobbling together the young Dominion in the first place, this is perhaps not a great revelation. And once that steel ribbon had been laid, railway barons needed to fill those empty cars with freight and passengers, the more well-heeled the better.
To entice the passengers, and inspired by the castles of the Loire Valley in France, those locomotive visionaries set about building a series of château-style resorts to replace the drab roadhouses and urban hotels that had preceded the railway age.
How Canada set the standard for castle-in-the-sky railway hotels
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