Hotel Fort Garry is no ordinary hotel. Designated as a national historic site, this hotel is soon going to turn a 100! It has stood proudly for the last 97 years and has defined the meaning of old world elegance. This grand hotel has become one of the most well known structures of the city and there may not be another hotel in the whole of Winnipeg that can vie with Hotel Fort Garry when it comes to historical importance and integrity.

Montreal architects Ross and MacFarlane designed the hotel after the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa and initially this hotel was supposed to be named the Selkirk. However, it was decided to name it the Fort Garry, after the fort (with the same name) that stood at the junction of the Assiniboine and Red rivers. The strategic location of the hotel on Broadway, between Fort and Garry Streets ensured that it was the first building tourists laid their eyes on when they entered the city, whatever direction the entered from. Incidentally, hotel Fort Garry was the first ever commercial establishment to come up on Broadway, and till date the only hotel to be built there.

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