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Fort Garry Hotel

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According to local folklore, the hotel (specifically room 202) is haunted by a female spirit. A woman apparently died by suicide in the room many years ago after hearing of the death of her husband in a car accident. Overcome with grief, she hanged herself in the closet.
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in taxes and was in "urgent need of renovations to bring it up to modern-day standards." During this time, the hotel was briefly owned by the City of Winnipeg, before being acquired in early 1988 by a company controlled by Quebec hotelier
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At the time of completion, the 13-storey hotel was the tallest structure in the city. The Fort Garry Hotel opened to the public at a grand ball on 10 December 1913, what the
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in order to service as a luxury accommodation for upper-class railway travellers. Constructed at a strategic location on
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In 2009, the hotel came under new ownership and was rebranded as the Fort Garry Hotel, Spa and Conference Centre.
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after Grand Trunk was nationalized and absorbed into CN. In 1979, the hotel was purchased by the prominent
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in the early 20th century to encourage tourists to travel their transcontinental routes.
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In the 1990s, the hotel converted its two ballrooms into a provincial government-run
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The hotel's early prominence led it to have many famous guests, including
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family of Winnipeg, who operated it as an independent hotel until 1987.
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Initially, the new hotel was to be called "The Selkirk Hotel" after the
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The Fort Garry Hotel was the site of the Winnipeg studio of
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The Fort Garry Hotel was built between 1911 and 1913 by the
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and the only surviving remnant from that era in Winnipeg.
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Châteauesque
Winnipeg
Coordinates
49°53′16″N 97°08′12″W / 49.88778°N 97.13667°W / 49.88778; -97.13667
Ida Albo
Ross and Macdonald
National Historic Site of Canada
Winnipeg Landmark Heritage Structure
CRHP
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fortgarryhotel.com
hotel
downtown Winnipeg
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
Canada's grand railway hotels
National Historic Site of Canada
Manitoba Provincial Heritage Site
heritage park
Upper Fort Garry
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
Broadway
Union Station
hotels built by Canadian railway companies
Selkirk Settlers
Upper Fort Garry
Red
Assiniboine
George Ross and David MacFarlane
Ottawa

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