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Chateau Lake Louise began as a simple log chalet built by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1890. Early guests, including pioneers of mountaineering in the northern Rockies, reached it by packhorse trail from the station below. With the coming of the automobile in the 1920s and the renewal and enlargement of the chateau, ever-increasing numbers of travelers from around the world came to the shores of the lake. Its north wing, built in 1912 to designs by Walter Painter, is the oldest section of what has become a Banff National Park institution.
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