Fairmont the Élizabeth Queen
The Reine Élizabeth is a Hôtel located in the middle of the district of City-Marie at Montreal. It was built by the Canadian National, then bought by the the Canadian Pacific, for finally passing to the hands Hôtels Fairmont.
It is located at the center of Montreal, to the 900, boulevard Rene-Lévesque Western. It is connected to the underground Montreal and the Central station.
It accommodated several personalities, of which the queen Elisabeth II of the United Kingdom, the duke of Edinburgh, the Reine Mother, the prince Charles, the general de Gaulle, Indira Gandhi, Jacques Chirac, Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Perry Como, Joan Crawford, John Travolta, and Mikhail Baryshnikov. The hotel acquired an international name when John Lennon and Yoko Ono led there to them “Bed-In” in the room 1742, after one refused the entry with the the United States to them. They recorded there the song Give Peace has Chance between the May 26th and June 2nd 1969.
Capacity of lodging
Fairmont the Élizabeth Queen is the hotel comprising it the greatest number of rooms (1039) in Quebec and 3rd in Canada after the Delta Chelsea, Toronto (1590 rooms) and Fairmont Royal York (1365 rooms).
External bond
- Official site
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