Identifier: montrealcanadian00canauoft (find matches)
Title: Montreal; the Canadian metropolis and its picturesque environments
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Subjects: Montréal (Québec)
Publisher: (Montreal)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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In Place Vic.er Hotel MONTREAL II waiting-rooms, and from which it is but a step to the covered railway tracksof the Canadian Pacific, immediately in the rear. On the right of this mainwaiting-room is the hotel department, and all the upper floors are exclusivelydevoted to hotel purposes on plans arranged on the most modern ideas. Theground floor is laid in marble mosaic, the rotunda and waiting-room beingof magnificent proportions, with supporting columns, wainscoting and otherwood finishing of quartered oak, and walls and ceilings laid in gold leaf with
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Grand Staircasf, Place Viger Hotei, chaste decorations. The main staircase of Corona marble is beautifullyfinished, and the general effect of the artistic decorations symbolize the nationalcharacterof the structure, being wrought in designs of tasteful coloring. The spaciousdining room is bright, cheerful and handsome, with luxurious appointments ; thecuisine of that high standard maintained l)y the Canadian Pacific in its unexcelledservice. The magnificent drawing-room and parlors, from which the balcony, agrand summer promenade stretching almost the entire length of the building, is 12 MONTREAL reached, are elaborately and richly furnished, and the sleeping apartments, fromwhose windows unobstructed views of the surroundings can be obtained, are large,well ventilated and elegantly appointed—the rooms being single or en suite asmay be desired. There is accommodation for 350 guests. In the heating, lightingand sanitary arrangements, which were specially designed for this hotel, the

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