Wedding venues in Canada

Château Frontenac

The 1893 railway château above the St. Lawrence River, where Allied leaders met in 1943 and 1944.

610 rooms

Fairmont Empress

Francis Rattenbury, architect of the British Columbia Parliament Buildings beside it, designed the hotel for the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1908.

Fogo Island Inn

Twenty-nine suites on stilts above the North Atlantic, built by a Newfoundland community so that every dollar of surplus stays on Fogo Island.

29 rooms

The Ritz-Carlton Montreal

Opened on New Year's Eve 1912 on Sherbrooke Street West, it hosted the first wedding of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in 1964.

Fairmont Royal York

Opened by Canadian Pacific in 1929 across Front Street from Union Station, at 28 storeys it was briefly the tallest building in the British Empire.

Rosewood Hotel Georgia

Vancouver's 1927 Georgian Revival hotel where Elvis and the Beatles stayed, closed in 2006 and reopened by Rosewood in 2011 with 156 rooms.

156 rooms

Fairmont Hotel Vancouver

Begun in 1928 and finished in 1939 for the royal visit of King George VI, the green copper roof of the Castle in the City.

Wickaninnish Inn

Built in 1996 on a rocky point at the north end of Chesterman Beach, it turned Tofino's winter storms into a reason to travel.

75 rooms

Château Laurier

The 1912 railway château beside Parliament Hill and the Rideau Canal, at the heart of Ottawa.

Fairmont Banff Springs

Opened by the Canadian Pacific Railway on 1 June 1888, the Castle in the Rockies rebuilt in Rundle stone inside Banff National Park.

724 rooms

Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth

The Montreal hotel above Central Station where John Lennon and Yoko Ono held their Bed-In for Peace in Suite 1742 in 1969.

950 rooms

Fairmont Le Château Montebello

A log château of 10,000 red cedar logs raised in four months in 1930 on the Ottawa River, host of the 1981 G7 summit.

Up to 300 guests

Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise

The Canadian Pacific Railway put a one-storey chalet on the shore of Lake Louise in 1890; the hotel that grew from it faces the Victoria Glacier across the water.

539 rooms

Fairmont Le Manoir Richelieu

Burned in 1928 and rebuilt as a château in a single winter, the Manoir has stood on its cliff above the St. Lawrence at Pointe-au-Pic since 1929.

405 rooms

Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge

A 700-acre lodge of cedar cabins on Lac Beauvert, opened by Canadian National in 1922 and the only hotel inside Jasper National Park on this scale.

Hôtel de Glace

Rebuilt from scratch every winter since 2001, North America's only ice hotel opens in early January and melts back into the ground by late March.

6 rooms