We no longer have a railway or a grand railway hotel, but we did for a while.
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The original Newfoundland Hotel, an 8-storey brick structure, was opened in 1926 in St. John's. The hotel was owned and operated by the Newfoundland Hotel Facilities, Ltd. Ownership of the hotel was transferred to the Canadian National Railway hotel division in 1949 following Confederation.
From 1939 to 1949, the 6th floor served as home and studios for Newfoundland Broadcasting Corporation. The current site was formerly Fort William, a British Army base in the 17th Century.
In the early 1960s the hotel was renamed Hotel Newfoundland due to CN's new policy of making names more bilingual.
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It offered European and North American-style suites, but the European-style ones went out of fashion. Major renovations would've been required to bring all suites up to the modern, North American standard of size/plumbing/amenity placement/etc. so it was torn down and replaced with a modern building in the 1980s.