topic:"Hotels" found 15 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Castle in the wilderness : the story of the Banff Springs Hotel

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2019

Author: Robinson, Bart

Publisher: Banff, AB : Summerthought Publishing

Edition: 1st Edition

Call Number: 08.5 R55c

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Author: Robinson, Bart

Responsibility: Bart Robinson

Edition: 1st Edition

Publisher: Banff, AB : Summerthought Publishing

Published Date: 2019

Physical Description: 160 p.; illus.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Hotels; History; Travel; Tourism; Banff Springs Hotel; Canadian Pacific Railway; Canadian Pacific Railway Company; Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels

Abstract: A Castle in the Wilderness: The Story of the Banff Springs Hotel is the definitive historical record of one of the world’s most famous mountain resorts. The story navigates the hotel’s early history from its construction by the Canadian Pacific Railway to the glittering era of the 1920s through to the changes of modern times. Local author and historian Bart Robinson has been exploring and writing about the Banff Springs Hotel since the 1970s. In A Castle in the Wilderness he combines a complete hotel history with rich anecdotes and snippets of the past that have enriched Banff and indeed Canada, from the hotel’s links to the construction of the transcontinental rail line to the visits of maharajahs and movie stars.How did such a gracious hotel come to be in the wilds of the Canadian Rockies? How much did it cost to build? Who designed it? Who selected its furnishings? Which famous visitors has it hosted? And why is now known as the Fairmont Banff Springs? These and many more questions are answered in the Castle in the Wilderness. (from publisher's website)

Contents: Introduction; Origins of a Hotel; Grand Designs; Vistas and Vendettas; Growing Pains; Towers and Troubles; Princes and Politicians; Out of the Fire; A Brief But Golden Moment; Tribulations and Triumph; A Second Century; Into the New Millenium; Appendix; Bibliography; Index; Credits; Acknowledgements; About the Author

ISBN: 9781926983356

Accession Number: 2019.89

Call Number: 08.5 R55c

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Link to publishers website where publication can been purchased

Websites

https://summerthought.com/banff.springs.htm

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Dining with Canadian Railways : Volume I - Canadian Pacific chinaware

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2018

Author: Smith, Will

Publisher: [Nanaimo, British Columbia], Canada : David William (Will) Smith and Ralph Beaumont

Call Number: 08.5 Sm5d

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Author: Smith, Will

Responsibility: Will Smith

Publisher: [Nanaimo, British Columbia], Canada : David William (Will) Smith and Ralph Beaumont

Published Date: 2018

Physical Description: [248 pages] : illustrations (some colour), map

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Railways; Canadian Pacific Railway; Canadian Pacific Railway Company; Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels; Restaurants; Travel; Canada; Industry; History; History-Canada; Hotels

Abstract: Pertains to the chinaware used by the Canadian Pacific Railway on affiliated trains, steamships, hotels, restaurants, airlines with focus on history and specific patterns used on ceramics

Contents: Introduction; Chapter 1 - Scope and arrangement of book; Chapter 2 - Research sources; Chapter 3 - Railway; Chapter 4 - Steamships; Chapter 5 - Hotels, resorts and restaurants; Chapter 6 - Airline; Chapter 7 - The evolution of CPR's chinaware logos; Chapter 8 - The scope of chinaware and its movement withing CPR's operations; Chapter 9 - Where did al that chinaware go?; Chapter 10 - Souvenir chinaware; Chapter 11 - Fakes and reproductions; Chapter 12 - Market value; Chapter 13 - Interpreting the individual pattern listing; Chapter 14 - Railway, steamship, hotel and restaurant patterns; Chapter 15 - Affiliated Dominion Atlantic & Quebec Central patterns; Chapter 16 - Airline patterns; Appendix A - Manufacturers and their abbreviation codes; Appendix B - Patterns by manufacturer; Appendix C - Patterns by decade of introduction; Appendix D - Patterns by CPR operations; Appendix E - Hotels, resorts, bungalow camps and rest/tea houses by province; Appendix F - Railway station restaurants by province: 1892, 1907, 1920 & 1956; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Index

ISBN: 9781999382100

Accession Number: 2019.27

Call Number: 08.5 Sm5d

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Credit Valley Railway Company Ltd. distributes publication

Websites

https://www.cvrco.ca/Book_Distributing/2018

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Background information

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue4745

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1983

Author: Four Mountain Parks Planning Program

Publisher: Calgary : Parks Canada

Call Number: 13.112 F82bi

Author: Four Mountain Parks Planning Program

Publisher: Calgary : Parks Canada

Published Date: 1983

Physical Description: 2v. : maps

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Hotels; Wildlife

Notes: Contents pertain to future, resources, backcountry, recreation, accomodation, transportation, communication, townsites and visitor service centres; Bibliography