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The site
The hotel stands where the French governors lived
The Château Saint-Louis stood on the cape where the hotel stands now, and was the home of the French governors from 1620 to 1834. Château Haldimand, built in the 1780s, was demolished in 1892 to make way for the present hotel.
The railway
The Canadian Pacific Railway built it as a grand railway hotel
The New York architect Bruce Price designed the hotel in the Château style, and the Canadian Pacific Railway company built it. It opened in 1893. It was named after Louis de Buade, Count of Frontenac, Governor General of New France.
The tower
A tower added in 1924 made it the tallest building in the city
The 1924 expansion, to designs by William Sutherland Maxwell, added the central tower. The hotel then stood as the tallest building in Quebec City, until the Édifice Price was completed in 1930.
18floors in a building about 80 metres tall
On film
Alfred Hitchcock filmed the opening scene of I Confess here
In 1953 the hotel was the filming location for the opening scene of I Confess, with Montgomery Clift and Anne Baxter. Some of its suites are themed to visitors such as Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The roof
The rooftop garden keeps bees, and the restaurants use the honey
The rooftop garden holds hives with four queen honey bees. The hotel has nearly 70,000 honey bees producing 295 kilograms of honey per year, harvested three times a year and used by the hotel's restaurants.
295 kilogramsof honey a year from the rooftop hives
Day 1, morning
It comes after Place d'Armes. Then Ramparts of Old Quebec.
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