Featuring breathtaking views of Lake Louise and the surrounding Canadian Rocky Mountains.

The original hotel was gradually developed at the turn of the 20th century by the Canadian Pacific Railway and was thus “kin” to its predecessors, the Banff Springs Hotel and the Château Frontenac in Quebec City.

The hotel was first conceived by the railway as a vacation destination to lure rich travellers into taking trains and heading West.

Photos: Vlad Umnov; The Coast Publishing Co., Vancouver, B.C. – University of Alberta Library Prairie Postcard Collection – https://archive.org/details/PC014343, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=128815411