Prince of Wales Hotel
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The Prince of Wales Hotel is located in Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, Canada, overlooking Upper Waterton Lake, near the Canada-United States border. Constructed between 1926-1927, the hotel was built by the American Great Northern Railway to lure American tourists during the prohibition-era south of the border. The hotel was named after the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII), in a transparent attempt to entice him to stay in the hotel on his 1927 Canadian tour, but the Prince stayed at a nearby ranch instead .
The Prince of Wales Hotel enjoys the distinction of being the sole establishment among Canada's grand railway hotels to have been built by an American, as opposed to a Canadian, railway company. The hotel was designated a national historic site by the Canadian government in 1995.
 View of the lake from inside the hotel |
 View of the hotel from across the water |
.jpg/120px-Waterton_(8).jpg) The Hotel in 2006 following renovations |
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- Chisholm, Barbara, ed., Castles of the North: Canada’s Grand Hotels. Toronto: Lynx Images Inc., 2001. ISBN 1-894073-14-2.
- Djuff, Ray. High on a Windy Hill: The Story of the Prince of Wales Hotel. Calgary: Rocky Mountain Books, 1999. ISBN 0-921102-71-2.
- Djuff, Ray, and Chris Morrison. View with a Room: Glacier's Historic Hotels and Chalets. Helena, Montana: Farcountry Press, 2001. ISBN 1-56037-170-6.
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