Château Frontenac, Québec

Built in 1894 for the Canadian Pacific Railway the majestic Château Frontenac, visible for miles around, is Québec's most famous landmark. The palatial hotel, standing on the site once occupied by Fort St-Louis, the governor's residence in colonial times, is named after the Comte de Frontenac, a French nobleman who was a leading figure in "la Nouvelle France".From the moment the huge building was completed it became adopted as a fitting emblem for Québec City. Still the provincial capital's foremost hotel, it was here at the Québec Conference in August 1943 that the Allied Powers in the persons of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, William L. M. King, Vice-Admiral Lord Mountbatten and the U.S. Chief of Staff, General George C. Marshall, and others, laid preparations for the D-Day landings in Normandy (June 6th 1944).