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The Canadian Pacific Hotel company started in 1886 with the com­pletion of the Mount Stephen House in Kicking Horse Valley, Canada, William Cornelius Van Home decided to build a series of «dining sta­tions* along the first Canadian transcontinental railroad to accommodate travelers. During the next year, two more stations were built — Glaciel House and Fraser Canyon House — and by 1908, Van Home had built four more stations.

The look of Van Home's hotels was remarkable, and traveler) enjoyed seeing them. He designed hotels to look like European castle) and Canadian author R.G. MacBeth called the hotels «palatial and ro­mantic*. Expansion of Canadian Pacific Hotels continued through the twentieth century, with hotels located in British Columbia, the Rocky Mountains, Urban Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic Canada. Ca­nadian Pacific Hotels currently has a total of twenty-six hotels, with 11,116 rooms and 10,000 employees throughout Canada.

In 1987, Canadian Pacific began to restore all of the hotels to their original grandeur. Each hotel was renovated and refurbished, and rooms, restaurants, and health clubs were added to many of the hotels.

City-Centre hotels are now equipped with modernized busyness) amenities to meet a business traveler's needs. The rooms feature a desk, two phones, a desk drawer organizer with supplies, a fax service, and other services including express check-out. Many hotels contain work centers for business travelers who prefer a place to work other than their room. [1,146]

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