Hotel Macdonald
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The Hotel Macdonald is a hotel built in 1915 in the city of Edmonton, Alberta, by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. The hotel has successively been owned by Canadian National Railway, Canadian Pacific Hotels, and Fairmont Hotels and Resorts.
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The Hotel Macdonald (affectionately called "The Mac" by Edmontonians) was designed by Ross and Macdonald, the same architectural firm that designed many of Canada's landmark hotels. The hotel was designed in the Château-style that characterized Canada's large railway hotels, and was completed on July 5, 1915. Standing high on the bank overlooking the largest urban parkway in North America, the North Saskatchewan River Valley, the Hotel Macdonald has a beautiful garden in the rear of the building.
Along with the Palliser Hotel in Calgary, it was one of the first two establishments to be re-issued with a liquor licence by the Alberta Liquor Control Board when Alberta abolished Prohibition in 1924.
A 300-bedroom, 16-storey addition (now demolished) was built in 1953 to keep up with the rising demand for hotel accommodation in the city.
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