The Chateau Frontenac, pictured here, was built in 1893 and is probably the most flamboyant of the Canadian railway hotels built in the Railway Chateau style. This evolved as a distinctly Canadian style of architecture, using towers and turrets and other Scottish baronial and French chateau elements.
Railway Pagoda
architecturewatercolour, crayon and ink
©2013 Charlene Brown
This view of Banff includes the Banff Park Museum (on the far left) in the famous shot straight up Banff Avenue to Mt. Cascade.
The museum, a National Historic Site, was designed in the late nineteenth century ‘railway pagoda’ style favoured for the initial cross-country railway station building construction in Canada..
This will be a page (pretty much the last page, actually) in the book I’m putting together called Time Travel with a bag of crayons.
