Château Frontenac

Château Frontenac dominates Quebec City’s skyline from a commanding site above Old Quebec and the Saint Lawrence River, where the 18th-century Château Haldimand once stood. Opened in 1893 by the Canadian Pacific Railway and designed by Bruce Price, it was among Canada’s first grand railway hotels, created to promote elite tourism and give the city a monumental building suited to its historic image. A landmark of Châteauesque architecture, it expanded several times, including the addition of its central tower in 1924. It also hosted major Allied wartime meetings in 1943 and 1944 and remains an active luxury hotel and National Historic Site of Canada.

Quebec · Canada