Queen Elizabeth Hotel
| Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth | |
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Queen Elizabeth Hotel, with Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral in the foreground
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| General information | |
| Location |
900, boulevard René-Lévesque Ouest Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3B 4A5 |
| Coordinates | 45°30′02″N 73°34′04″W / 45.5006°N 73.5678°WCoordinates: 45°30′02″N 73°34′04″W / 45.5006°N 73.5678°W |
| Opening | 1958 |
| Owner | Ivanhoé Cambridge |
| Management | Fairmont Hotels and Resorts |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 21 |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 1039 |
| Number of suites | 100 |
| Number of restaurants | 4 |
| Website | |
| Fairmont Queen Elizabeth | |
The Queen Elizabeth Hotel (French: Le Reine Élizabeth; official English name Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth) is a grand hotel in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. On 17 June 2016, it closed for a series of year-long, $140M CAD renovations.
Completed in 1958, the hotel was built by the Canadian National Railway and managed for many years by Hilton Hotels. CN Hotels were later sold to Canadian Pacific Hotels, which is now known as Fairmont Hotels and Resorts. With 1039 rooms and 21 floors it is the largest hotel in the province of Quebec, and the second largest Fairmont hotel in Canada after the Royal York in Toronto, which has 1365 rooms. Located at 900 René Lévesque Boulevard West, in the heart of Montreal, it is connected to Central Station and to the underground city.
Canadian National Railway selected leading architects and designers to give the interior decoration a "New France" theme, using Quebec handicrafts. The artists included Albert Edward Cloutier (carved wooden panels), Jean Dallaire (wall hanging), Marius Plamondon (stained glass mural), Claude Vermette (ceramic tiles) and Julien Hébert (bronze elevator doors). Cloutier painted a mural for the main dining room of the Salle Bonaventure in the hotel.
There was controversy over naming the hotel: Quebec nationalists wanted it called Château Maisonneuve in honour of Montreal's founder, Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve. CN's president, Donald Gordon, insisted it be named for the queen, who had unexpectedly come to the throne in 1952 while the hotel was still on the drawing boards. The French name, Le Reine Élizabeth, may appear startling because of the use of the masculine article le. The article does not apply to the feminine noun Reine but to the understood masculine noun Hôtel (as in Le Ritz).
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