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> VANCOUVER CONFERENCE BULLETIN, 11TH HOUR PLUS
> HOTELS AND HIGH TEA
>
> Those of you who opted for the MEMBERS HIGH TEA on Monday, March
> 29, 3 p.m., following the Membership Meeting, are in for a real
> treat. The Hotel Vancouver is one of the original Canadian
> Pacific Railway hotels that were built to entice well-heeled
> tourists, many from Britain, to travel to Canada. With their
> exotic locales but familiar elegance and amenities the hotels
> became destination resorts. During the 1920's when this Hotel
> Vancouver was built, the CPR was an international transportation
> giant, with ocean liners, steamships, transcontinental
> passenger trains, and lavish resort hotels built across Canada,
> mostly in the 'chateau style'*, such as the Chateau Lake Louise,
> the Banff Springs Hotel (both in Alberta), and the Empress Hotel
> in Victoria, among others. It was as shrewd marketing, as well
> as an enlightened form of art patronage, that the CPR hired
> artists to travel its routes and paint the scenery along the
> way. The resulting works were used to illustrate the promotional
> brochures of the company, with travel to the west, and the
> Canadian Rockies, being the most promoted. Also among the British
> tourists were members of the royal family, who stayed at these
> hotels, and expected and received all the trappings of British
> traditions, even in the far west of the Dominion of Canada.
>
> Afternoon tea is one of the traditions of the CPR hotels, most
> observed at that former outpost of empire, the Empress Hotel in
> Victoria, but also at the Hotel Vancouver. You can expect a
> selection of teas, strawberries with devon cream, egg, cucumber
> and tuna sandwiches, raisin scones with preserves, and a
> selection of French pastries.
>
> You can still partake of this British custom by contacting Arlis
> headquarters until March 12 for reservations (payment can be made
> in Vancouver), and/or inquire at the Arlis registration desk when
> you arrive, but remember that the hotel prefers 72 hours notice
> for these events.
>
> Kathy Zimon
> Vancouver Conference Program Co-chair
>
> *Check your libraries for Harold Kalman's The Railway Hotels
and the Development of the Chateau Style in Canada,(1968) for
more about this style of architecture.
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