March 16: In Canada, Château Means Heritage and Luxury
Visiting Fulbright scholar looks at Canada’s iconic railroad hotels. That preteen checking into Ottawa’s Château Laurier with his school soccer team decades ago just wanted to get onto the tournament field. Still, something about the building’s old but “cool” architecture stuck with a young Bradford Hudson.
Back in Canada for this semester, he’s turning academic eyes on that grand edifice in the capital ─ and on other former railroad hotels that evoke part of this nation’s history.