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The following bit of history about the Hotel Vancouver was taken from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Hotel Vancouver, the second hotel of that name, was an Italian Renaissance style hotel built in 1916 by the Canadian Northern Railway. The Canadian Northern went bankrupt in 1918 and was merged into the Canadian National Railways. CNR demolished the building in 1949 to make way for the third Hotel Vancouver which still operates. Many famous people had stayed at the hotel such as Winston Churchill, Sarah Bernhardt, Babe Ruth, Ethel Barrymore, Pavlova. It stood at 15 floors/ 77m tall. The building was much loved in Vancouver and with its rooftop dining room and dance floor, the Panorama Roof, was a favourite place for a night out. This building was one of the triumvirate of large, ornate buildings which anchored the centre of town at Georgia and Granville streets: the Hudson Bay Store, Birks Building, and Hotel Vancouver provided an elegant foci of which the rest of the town radiated. Only the Hudson Bay store remains of those three jewels of Vancouver's golden age of Edwardian architecture. |
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