Hotel Saskatchewan
| Hotel Saskatchewan | |
|---|---|
 Radisson Plaza Hotel Saskatchewan | |
| General information | |
| Location | Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada |
| Coordinates | 50°26′48″N 104°36′41″W / 50.44667°N 104.61139°WCoordinates: 50°26′48″N 104°36′41″W / 50.44667°N 104.61139°W |
| Opening | 1927 |
| Management | Radisson Hotels |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 10 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Ross and Macdonald |
| Developer | Canadian Pacific Railway |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 224 |
| Number of suites | 27 |
| Number of restaurants | 1 |
The Radisson Plaza Hotel Saskatchewan is a historic hotel, one of Canada's grand railway hotels located in downtown Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, overlooking Victoria Park.
The Hotel Saskatchewan was the fourteenth hotel in a nationwide chain constructed and owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway[1] The railway's earlier hotels, such as the Château Frontenac in Quebec City, the Chateau Lake Louise and the Banff Springs Hotel were designed in a distinctive château style, but by the late 1920s this had been abandoned in favor of a much simpler and less expensive style although the Canadian National Railway's Bessborough hotel in Saskatoon was built from 1928 to 1932. The Hotel Saskatchewan was the hub of the city's social life, and today operates as part of the Radisson Hotels chain.
History
A prior attempt at construction of a grand railway hotel for Regina, the Chateau Qu'Appelle, failed when the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway went bankrupt. The partially constructed Chateau Qu'Appelle—now the site of the Royal Saskatchewan Museum on the corner of Albert Street and College Avenue—remained derelict for some years on the corner of College Avenue and Albert Street until the CPR purchased the disused girders for use in the construction of the Hotel Saskatchewan and the large excavation was finally filled in.
The foundations remained in the ground, however, substantially accounting for the positioning of the Provincial Museum (now renamed Royal Saskatchewan Museum) at the corner of College Avenue and Albert Street but diagonally and substantially back from the streets. It is of course uncertain that if the Chateau Qu'Appelle had successfully been completed it would remain standing, but comparable palatial railway hotels in Quebec City, Montreal, Toronto, Saskatoon, Banff Springs, Vancouver, Victoria BC and elsewhere remain standing and thriving.
Its opening in 1927 caused Government House to cease being needed to accommodate official visitors as it had previously done for such people as the future King George V and Queen Mary, then Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, to the then-Territories, 1901, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, his wife and their daughter Princess Patricia in 1912, the Prince of Wales in 1927, 17 years before its closure in 1944.
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| Preceded by Saskatchewan Legislative Building |
Tallest Building in Regina 1927-1969 53 m |
Succeeded by Avord Tower |
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