The Fairmont Le Château Montebello, formerly and commonly known as the Château Montebello, is a historic hotel and resort complex in
Montebello,
Quebec
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, Canada. The resort complex includes a large
game reserve
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and a large wooden structure. The wooden hotel structure was developed by Victor Nymark.
Opened in 1930, the
rustic
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Architecture
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* Rustic architecture, an informal architectural style in the United States and Canada with sever ...
-styled hotel contains 211 guest rooms and suites. Initially owned by the
Canadian Pacific Railway
The Canadian Pacific Railway (french: Chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique) , also known simply as CPR or Canadian Pacific and formerly as CP Rail (1968–1996), is a Canadian Class I railway incorporated in 1881. The railway is owned by Canad ...
company, the building is considered one of
Canada's grand railway hotels. After its completion, the property was leased to the private Seigniory Club until 1970, when Canadian Pacific Railway converted the property into a public resort. The resort property is presently owned by the
Evergrande Group, and is managed by
Fairmont Hotels and Resorts
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts is a global chain of luxury hotels that operates more than 70 properties worldwide, with a strong presence in Canada.
The company originated from two hotel businesses established in the late 19th century, the Canadian Pa ...
.
Location

The Château Montebello is located at 392 rue Notre Dame, in the western section of
Montebello,
Quebec
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, a municipality in the
Outaouais
Outaouais (, ; also commonly called The Outaouais) is a region of western Quebec, Canada. It includes the city of Gatineau, the municipality of Val-des-Monts and the Papineau region. Geographically, it is located on the north side of the Ottaw ...
region of the province. The road forms a part of
Quebec Route 148
Route 148 is an east-west highway in Quebec, Canada. It runs from junction of Autoroute 13 and Autoroute 440 in Laval in the Montreal region to the Ontario-Quebec border in L'Isle-aux-Allumettes in western Quebec. For most of its length, Route ...
, a provincial highway that connects
Ottawa
Ottawa (, ; Canadian French: ) is the capital city of Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River in the southern portion of the province of Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core ...
to
Montreal
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. The roadway bisects the property, dividing it into two sections. The property south of rue Notre Dame contains the main buildings of the resort, whereas the section north of the road contains the resort's
golf course
A golf course is the grounds on which the sport of golf is played. It consists of a series of holes, each consisting of a tee box, a fairway, the rough and other hazards, and a green with a cylindrical hole in the ground, known as a "cup". The ...
, and hiking
trail
A trail, also known as a path or track, is an unpaved lane or small road usually passing through a natural area. In the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, a path or footpath is the preferred term for a pedestrian or hiking trail. ...
s. The hotel property is bounded by a roadway, natural waterway, and forests. To the south, the resort is bounded by the
Ottawa River
The Ottawa River (french: Rivière des Outaouais, Algonquin: ''Kichi-Sìbì/Kitchissippi'') is a river in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. It is named after the Algonquin word 'to trade', as it was the major trade route of Eastern ...
, which serves as the border between
Ontario
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and
Quebec
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. To the west, the property is bounded by
Quebec Route 323
Highway 323 is a highway in Quebec that runs from the junction of Route 148 in Montebello to the junction of Route 117 in Mont-Tremblant. This highway is along the main route from Ottawa and Greater Toronto Area to Mont-Tremblant
History
Befo ...
, a provincial highway that connects
Montebello to
Mont Tremblant. The community of Montebello is situated to the west of Quebec Route 323.
In addition to facilities located on property, the resort is situated near several attractions. North of the resort lies
Parc Omega, a
safari park featuring local wildlife. Situated west of the resort is
Plaisance National Park, a
provincial park
Ischigualasto Provincial Park
A provincial park (or territorial park) is a park administered by one of the provinces of a country, as opposed to a national park. They are similar to state parks in other countries. They are typically open to t ...
managed by the
Société des établissements de plein air du Québec.
Resort grounds
The Château Montebello is a year-round resort situated within
old-growth forests
An old-growth forestalso termed primary forest, virgin forest, late seral forest, primeval forest, or first-growth forestis a forest that has attained great age without significant disturbance, and thereby exhibits unique ecological featur ...
, and past outcroppings of the
Canadian shield
The Canadian Shield (french: Bouclier canadien ), also called the Laurentian Plateau, is a geologic shield, a large area of exposed Precambrian igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks. It forms the North American Craton (or Laurentia), the anc ...
. The resort is on one of the last surviving land grants made by 17th-century
French monarchy to early settlers of
New France
New France (french: Nouvelle-France) was the area colonized by Kingdom of France, France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to King ...
.
The resort grounds includes a number of facilities supporting the activities offered by the resort. This includes a 114-
slip marina
A marina (from Spanish language, Spanish , Portuguese language, Portuguese and Italian language, Italian : ''marina'', "coast" or "shore") is a Dock (maritime), dock or basin with moorings and supplies for yachts and small boats.
A marina dif ...
, and the marina clubhouse, in the southwestern section of the resort. Open from mid-May to mid-October, the marina is able to accommodate ships up to . Guests that dock at the marina are provided access to the resort amenities.

The resort grounds also contains of hiking
trail
A trail, also known as a path or track, is an unpaved lane or small road usually passing through a natural area. In the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, a path or footpath is the preferred term for a pedestrian or hiking trail. ...
s, and of
cross-country skiing
Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreatio ...
trails. In the section of the resort north of rue Notre Dame is an 18-hole,
par 70
golf course
A golf course is the grounds on which the sport of golf is played. It consists of a series of holes, each consisting of a tee box, a fairway, the rough and other hazards, and a green with a cylindrical hole in the ground, known as a "cup". The ...
. Designed by
golf course architect Stanley Thompson, the course also contains the Golf Club Terrace, and a bar at its 18th hole. Other outdoor facilities at the resort include two
skating rinks for
ice hockey
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and
skating, a
snow tubing hill, a
curling
Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding ...
rink, and two tennis courts. The resort also operates rental and support facilities for
dogsledding
A dog sled or dog sleigh is a sled pulled by one or more sled dogs used to travel over ice and through snow. Numerous types of sleds are used, depending on their function. They can be used for dog sled racing. Traditionally in Greenland and ...
,
snowshoe
Snowshoes are specialized outdoor gear for walking over snow. Their large footprint spreads the user's weight out and allows them to travel largely on top of rather than through snow. Adjustable bindings attach them to appropriate winter footwe ...
ing,
snowmobiling
A snowmobile, also known as a Ski-Doo, snowmachine, sled, motor sled, motor sledge, skimobile, or snow scooter, is a motorized vehicle designed for winter travel and recreation on snow. It is designed to be operated on snow and ice and does not ...
,
biking
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,
fishing
Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are often caught as wildlife from the natural environment, but may also be caught from stocked bodies of water such as ponds, canals, park wetlands and reservoirs. Fishing techniques ...
,
horseback riding
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, and
kayaking
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.
The resort also contains a
game reserve
A game reserve (also known as a wildlife preserve or a game park) is a large area of land where wild animals live safely or are hunted in a controlled way for sport. If hunting is prohibited, a game reserve may be considered a nature reserve; ...
, known as the Fairmont Kenauk at Le Château Montebello. Containing more than 70 lakes within its boundaries, the preserve is home to a
fish hatchery
A fish hatchery is a place for artificial breeding, hatching, and rearing through the early life stages of animals—finfish and shellfish in particular.Crespi V., Coche A. (2008) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Glos ...
, and contains over 200 species of birds, and 50 other animal species. The resort employs
biologists and
naturalists in an effort to preserve the resources in the area. The resort operates 13 self-sufficient chalets and cabins within the game preserve. The cabins and chalets contain one to five bedrooms.
West of the resort's main buildings, is
Manoir Papineau
The ‘Manoir Papineau’ was home to the Papineau family from 1850 to 1929. The house along with outbuildings, landscaped gardens and grounds (including a gardner's cottage, family museum, tea house, granary and funeral chapel) are now open to ...
, a
National Historic Site of Canada
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.
The
turreted house functions as a historical museum. It is the only structure in the Chateau area which doesn't conform to the log cabin motif of the resort.
Hotel building
Architecture

The resort's hotel building is a large wooden structure, and claims to be the largest log building in the world. Construction for the hotel building was overseen by Finnish immigrant Victor Nymark, a master log builder who immigrated to Canada in 1924 after successfully completing a three-year course at Vaasa Industrial School. As work on the building began before the hotel's final design plans were completed, Nymark's construction crew occasionally proceeded without blueprints to guide them. The three resort buildings erected in 1930 were built using 10,000
western red cedar
''Thuja plicata'' is an evergreen coniferous tree in the cypress family Cupressaceae, native to western North America. Its common name is western redcedar (western red cedar in the UK), and it is also called Pacific redcedar, giant arborvitae, w ...
logs shipped from
British Columbia
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. The log walls are painted black on the outside, although its interiors maintained the natural wood colouring.
The building also featured 500,000 hand-slit
cedar roof shakes and of wooden
moulding.
The completed structure saw a large log-building housing 211 guest rooms, and
suites, with four wings extending outward from the central lobby in a star formation. Log
rafter
A rafter is one of a series of sloped structural members such as wooden beams that extend from the ridge or hip to the wall plate, downslope perimeter or eave, and that are designed to support the roof shingles, roof deck and its associate ...
s hanging above the lobby span nearly . The
rotunda-shaped lobby serves as the centre of the hotel, featuring a three-storey atrium, built around a massive stone fireplace. The fireplace's chimney rises above the ground, and is surrounded by a
mezzanine
A mezzanine (; or in Italian, a ''mezzanino'') is an intermediate floor in a building which is partly open to the double-height ceilinged floor below, or which does not extend over the whole floorspace of the building, a loft with non-sloped ...
, and a third-floor balcony.
Hotel facilities
In addition to lodgings, the hotel operates a number of restaurants, and other food-based services within its buildings. The hotel's main dining room is ''Aux Chantignoles''. Other dining facilities at the hotel include ''Le Riverain'' and ''The Seigneurie Bar''. The hotel also has 17 event rooms, comprising a total of of space for conferences, and other social events.
The hotel also operates several recreational facilities, such as a fitness centre. The hotel's indoor swimming pool is housed in a separate log cabin accessible from the hotel by tunnel. The indoor pool area features painted
totem poles
Totem poles ( hai, gyáaʼaang) are monumental carvings found in western Canada and the northwestern United States. They are a type of Northwest Coast art, consisting of poles, posts or pillars, carved with symbols or figures. They are usually m ...
supporting the roof.
The hotel is also equipped with two whirlpool baths, two saunas, and a fitness centre. The hotel also features a spa, with eight treatment rooms, and a couples suite.
History
François de Laval
Francis-Xavier de Montmorency-Laval, commonly referred to as François de Laval (30 April 1623 – 6 May 1708), was a French prelate of the Catholic Church. Consecrated a bishop in 1658, he led the Apostolic Vicariate of New France from 1658 to ...
, the first
Bishop of Quebec, purchased the property in 1674 from the
French East India Company
The French East India Company (french: Compagnie française pour le commerce des Indes orientales) was a colonial commercial enterprise, founded on 1 September 1664 to compete with the English (later British) and Dutch trading companies in t ...
. The Quebec Seminary inherited it from Laval. In 1801, the land was sold to the family of
Joseph Papineau. His son,
Louis-Joseph Papineau
Louis-Joseph Papineau (October 7, 1786 – September 23, 1871), born in Montreal, Quebec, was a politician, lawyer, and the landlord of the ''seigneurie de la Petite-Nation''. He was the leader of the reformist Patriote movement before the Lowe ...
, built a turreted stone mansion, the
Manoir Papineau
The ‘Manoir Papineau’ was home to the Papineau family from 1850 to 1929. The house along with outbuildings, landscaped gardens and grounds (including a gardner's cottage, family museum, tea house, granary and funeral chapel) are now open to ...
.

In the late 1920s, Harold M. Saddlemire, a
Swiss
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-
American entrepreneur, acquired a site along the Ottawa River, on land that formerly formed part of the
seigneurial system of New France
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Both in nominal and legal terms, all French terri ...
. Saddlemire envisioned a private wilderness retreat for business and political leaders. He initially called this project "Lucerne-in-Quebec"; it subsequently came to be known as the Seigniory Club. Despite the
Wall Street Crash of 1929
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, work on the planned wilderness retreat began, as planned, in early 1930.

The economic uncertainty did not delay the project, unlike many others, perhaps because the presidents of the
Canadian Pacific Railway
The Canadian Pacific Railway (french: Chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique) , also known simply as CPR or Canadian Pacific and formerly as CP Rail (1968–1996), is a Canadian Class I railway incorporated in 1881. The railway is owned by Canad ...
(CPR), the
National Bank of Canada
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, the
Bank of Montreal
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The bank was founded in Montreal, Quebec, in 1817 as Montreal Bank; while its head office remains in ...
and the
Royal Bank of Canada
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respectively, not to mention the
Premier of Quebec
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, were all club directors. A special spur from the nearby CPR line had to be built to allow for the transport of red cedar logs and other supplies to the site. The
Scandinavia
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n log construction project was supervised by Finnish master-builder, Victor Nymark and construction manager Harold Landry Furst. Construction and woodworking teams worked in overlapping shifts around the clock using electric lighting at night. The church did not approve of working on the Sabbath; but by coincidence, the local curé was dispatched on an all-expenses paid trip to Rome for two months while the work proceeded apace.
[Mounsey, Josie]
"A Winter's Tale: 'We were transported to a Christmas past'"
''The Independent'' (London). November 16, 2002. An army of 3500 laborers ensured that the project could reach completion in only four months. The club's grand opening was held on 1 July 1930. Three days after opening, a magnificent costume ball was held, attended by the Governor General of Canada.
The exclusive private retreat of the Seigniory Club took its name from the French land grant system. "Seigniory" is the anglicized version of the French ''seigneurie.''
The club was only open to an elite membership for its first 40 years of operation.
Prominent Canadian club members during this period included
Lester B. Pearson, the
Prime Minister of Canada
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. Other non-Canadian members included
Queen Juliana of the Netherlands,
Prince Rainier and
Princess Grace of
Monaco
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.
[MacDonald, John]
"Montebello: A log cabin with class"
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). May 1997. Other prominent guests at resort include
Crown Prince Akihito of
Japan,
Princess Juliana
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of the
Netherlands
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,
Bing Crosby
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,
Perry Como
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,
Bette Davis
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,
Joan Crawford
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, and
Harry S. Truman. The
President of the United States
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Harry Truman
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's visit to Canada in June 1947 included a trip to the Seigniory Club retreat. Truman had "expressed the desire to fish for his first Canadian trout during his visit to the club."
[ "Mr. Obama comes to Ottawa"](_blank)
''The Ottawa Citizen.'' February 15, 2009. Edward, Prince of Wales also visited the retreat, and later revisited when he was the
Duke of Windsor
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.

The resort remained a private retreat, owned by the CPR, and leased to the exclusive Seigniory Club until 1970, when it was converted into a public resort by
Canadian Pacific Hotels, the hotel division of CPR. During this time the resort was renamed the Château Montebello.
In 1981, the Château Montebello hosted the
7th G7 summit; and leaders such as
Pierre Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau ( , ; October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000), also referred to by his initials PET, was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 15th prime minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and ...
,
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (; 13 October 19258 April 2013) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the first female British prime ...
,
Ronald Reagan and
François Mitterrand
François Marie Adrien Maurice Mitterrand (26 October 19168 January 1996) was President of France, serving under that position from 1981 to 1995, the longest time in office in the history of France. As First Secretary of the Socialist Party, ...
were guests along with the aides and security staffs traveling with these national leaders. In August 1983, the
Bilderberg Group
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held its
annual meeting at the resort. In October 1983, the resort hosted the ministerial meeting for
NATO
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's Nuclear Planning Group.
In 1995, the American
National Trust for Historic Preservation
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awarded a special membership to the Château Montebello, one of only two Canadian hotels so honoured. The other Canadian member is the
Empress Hotel of Victoria, British Columbia, which was also a Canadian Pacific property.
In 2001, Canadian Pacific Hotels was reorganized as
Fairmont Hotels and Resorts
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts is a global chain of luxury hotels that operates more than 70 properties worldwide, with a strong presence in Canada.
The company originated from two hotel businesses established in the late 19th century, the Canadian Pa ...
, adopting the name from an American company it had purchased in 1999. The resort's name was changed to the Fairmont Le Château Montebello as a part of this re-branding effort.
The company continued to own the resort until the property was purchased in 2006 by the
OMERS.
[Constantineau, Bruce]
"Pension plan buys 7 Fairmont hotels for about $1.5b"
, ''Vancouver Sun.'' October 3, 2006. However, Fairmont continues to manage the property.

In 2007 the resort hosted the
Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America
The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) was a supra-national level dialogue with the stated purpose of providing greater cooperation on security and economic issues. The Partnership was founded in Waco, Texas, on March 23, ...
conference, a
North American Leaders' Summit between the
Prime Minister of Canada
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Stephen Harper
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, the
President of Mexico
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Felipe Calderón
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, and President of the United States
George W. Bush.
The resort property was purchased again by the
Evergrande Group, a major Chinese real estate group making its first investment in Canada in December 2014. A $15 million renovation is currently underway. Phase 1 (half the rooms) is set to be completed by December 2018. Phase 2 (March to June 2019) will complete the other half of the rooms. The lobby is set to be renovated in Spring 2019.
See also
*
List of G8 summit resorts
References
Further reading
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External links
Official website
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Canadian Pacific Railway hotels
Hotels in Quebec
Hotel buildings completed in 1930
Buildings and structures in Outaouais
Rotundas (architecture)
Fairmont Hotels and Resorts
Log buildings and structures
Hotels established in 1930
Tourist attractions in Outaouais
Wooden buildings and structures in Canada