The Queen Elizabeth Hotel (French: Le Reine ÃÆ' â € ° lizabeth ; the official English Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth ) is a magnificent hotel in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. From June 17, 2016 to June 10, 2017, the hotel is closed for a series of CAD renovations worth $ 140 million over the year.
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Completed in 1958, the hotel was built by the Canadian National Railway and managed for years by Hilton Hotels. CN Hotels are then sold to Canadian Pacific Hotels, now known as Fairmont Hotels and Resorts. With 1039 rooms and 21 floors, this hotel is the largest hotel in the province of Quebec, and the second largest Fairmont hotel in Canada after the Royal York in Toronto, which has 1365 rooms. Located at 900 Renà © à © LÃÆ' © vesque Boulevard West, in the heart of Downtown Montreal, connected to Central Station and to the underground city.
The Canadian National Railway selects leading architects and designers to provide the interior decoration of the "New France" theme, using Quebec crafts. The artists include Albert Edward Cloutier (carved wooden panel), Jean Dallaire (wall hangings), Marius Plamondon (stained glass murals), Claude Vermette (ceramic tiles) and Julien HÃÆ'Â © bert (bronze lift doors). Cloutier painted a mural for the main Salle Bonaventure dining room in the hotel.
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Name
There is controversy over the naming of the hotel: The Quebec nationalists want it to be called ChÃÆ'Â ¢ teau Maisonneuve to honor the founder of Montreal, Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve. CN President, Donald Gordon, insisted it was named for the queen, who was unexpectedly coming to the throne in 1952 while the hotel is still on the drawing board. The French name, Le Reine ÃÆ'â € Å"lizabeth , may seem surprising because of the use of masculine article le . This article does not apply to feminine nouns Reine but for masculine verbs understood HÃÆ'Â'tel (as in Le Ritz ).
History
Many famous guests have lived there, including Queen Elizabeth II (four times) and Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother, Prince Charles, Fidel Castro, who was the first head of state to visit the hotel, Charles de Gaulle and Princess Grace of Monaco, during Expo '67, Indira Gandhi, Jacques Chirac, Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama, Sadiq Raji, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Perry Como, Joan Crawford, John Travolta, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and George W. Bush.
The hotel gained worldwide fame when John Lennon and Yoko Ono, who had been denied entry to the United States, conducted their Bed-In in Room 1742 at the hotel between May 26 and June 2, 1969. "Give Peace a Chance" was recorded in this room on June 1 by AndrÃÆ'Â © Perry. This song is the first solo single released by Lennon, and became the anthem of the American anti-war movement during the 1970s. It peaked at # 14 on the Hot 100 and # 2 Billboard Hot 100 and # 2 on the UK singles chart.
The NHL Entry Draft was also held at the hotel ten times between 1963 and 1979.
In 1970, the Quebec government moved its operations center to Queen Elizabeth in the midst of the October Crisis.
In 2016, the hotel closed its doors for renovation and reopened on July 10, 2017.
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External links
- Emporis List
- Hustak, Alan (2008-03-16). "Landmark has opened its doors to politicians and pachyderms". Montreal Gazette . Retrieved 2008-03-17 .
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