page_title: Hotel Macdonald
section_title: Facilities
hierarchical_section_title: Hotel Macdonald / Design / Facilities
caption_attribution_description: Brunch at Hotel MacDonald
context_page_description: The Fairmont Hotel Macdonald, formerly and commonly known as the Hotel Macdonald, is a large historic luxury hotel in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Located along 100 Street NW, south of Jasper Avenue, the hotel is situated in the eastern end of downtown Edmonton, and overlooks the North Saskatchewan River. The 47.7 metres hotel building was designed by Ross and MacFarlene and contains eleven floors. The hotel is presently managed by Fairmont Hotels and Resorts.
  The hotel was opened by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway company on 5 July 1915. Built as an early-20th century railway hotel, the Châteauesque-styled building is considered one of Canada's grand railway hotels. Following Grand Trunk's bankruptcy, management of the hotel was taken over by Canadian National Hotels. The building has undergone several renovations since its opening, and an expansion wing to the hotel building was added in 1953. In 1983, Canadian National Hotels ceased operations, and demolished the building's expansion wing in the same year. The hotel property was later sold to Canadian Pacific Hotels in 1988, and was restored and reopened to the public in May 1991.
context_section_description: Hotel Macdonald includes 198 guest rooms and suites spread throughout the building. The hotel's suites are situated on its third, and eighth floor, with several suites 
  named after former guests of the hotel, including the King George VI suite, the Queen Elizabeth suite, and the Winston Churchill suite. The  220-square-metre (2,400 sq ft) third-floor Queen Elizabeth suite was built during the hotels late-1980s renovations, and was later renovated for Queen Elizabeth II's tour of Alberta in 2005. The Queen Elizabeth suite includes a full dining room, two sitting areas, and two adjoining guest rooms connected to a private lobby for service and security personnel. Access to the Queen Elizabeth suite, in addition to seven other suites on the third floor is accessible only by private elevator. 
  The hotel building also features several event spaces, including the Wedgewood room, named after the Wedgwood detailing on its ceiling; and the Empire Ballroom, an event space with 6.4-metre (21 ft) ceiling adorned with bas relief carvings. The carvings were covered under a false ceiling, and was uncovered during the hotels renovations in the late-1980s. Confederation Lounge serves as the hotel's lounge, and is named after a replica painting of Conference at Québec in 1864, to settle the basics of a union of the British North American Provinces by Robert Harris, that hangs atop the lounge's fireplace.
  Other facilities on the hotel property include squash courts, aerobic facilities, minibars, and an electronic security system. The hotel also operates one restaurant, known as The Harvest Room.
caption: The Empire Ballroom is an event space at the hotel that features 6.4-metre (21 ft) ceilings
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