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The Fairmont Banff Springs 1964 phillies world series tickets in Alberta is an internationally recognized symbol of Canadian 1964 phillies world series tickets Hospitality. William Cornelius Van Horne, appointed general manager of Canadian Pacific Railway has been credited with recognizing the tourism potential of the Canadian West.
In 1886, Canadian Pacific Railway began developing three hotels to reflect Van Horne's idea of luxurious accommodations. The Mount Stephen House at Field, the Fraser Canyon Hotel at the North Bend and the Glacier House at Rogers Pass, all located in British Columbia, were created to imitate Swiss chalets and quickly grew in popularity. This was just the beginning as Van Horne commissioned blueprints for a impressive hotel to be built at the convergence of the Bow and Spray Rivers in the recently established Rocky Mountain Park.
Bruce Price of New York, one of the leading architects of the time, was hired. With Price heading the project, construction of the Banff Springs Hotel began in the spring of 1887 and the hotel publicly opened on June 1, 1888.