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AB Hotels history
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The grand old hotel had its start in 1883, when Luke Kelly's Saloon opened in a one-storey wooden building on Jasper Avenue.
Kelly built a two-storey addition with hotel rooms onto the east side of the building in 1887 and renamed his establishment the Alberta Hotel.
The main part of the hotel, the four-storey brick and stone building with its iconic tower, was designed by James E. Wize and constructed in 1903 on the location of the original wooden building, which was moved north towards the back of the lot and attached to the new building.
Considered at the time one of the finest hotels west of Winnipeg, the prestigious Alberta Hotel made Edmonton History as the place where Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier stayed when he came to preside over the ceremony marking the creation of the province of Alberta in 1905.
He worked for a few years and then in 1911 he bought a boarding house from Julius Wurtz with big plans about building a hotel in time for the opening of the Perry Memorial right next door.
When the old wooden building was destroyed by fire, it was replaced by a one-storey brick addition in 1934.
The bank first loaned it to a guy named Morgan for a year but that didn’t work so they sold it to a cook from the Bay View House down the road, India Boelcher, who ran it successfully as the Bashore Hotel (no misspelling) until a fire took her kitchen in 1953.
Alberta's closed in the mid 1960's.
The first Esso Motor Hotel opens in 1963 in Laxå, Sweden – an innovative concept that is the first of its kind in the Swedish hotel market.
By 1969, 23 more hotels open in Sweden.
The Alberta Hotel was carefully dismantled in 1984 to make way for Canada Place, and many of its components stored.
In 1999, the first Scandic hotel was certified under the Nordic Ecolabel.
Hilton Group owns Scandic until 2007, when the company is sold.
Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group was named Hotel Group of the Year at Worldwide Hospitality Awards 2012
In December 2015, Scandic once again is listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In May 2016, Scandic opens its first signature hotel in Stockholm – Haymarket by Scandic.
On December 29, 2017, Scandic completed the acquisition of Restel’s Finnish hotel business.
Radisson Hotel Group rebranded Club Carlson loyalty program to Radisson Rewards Rezidor Hotel Group AB (publ) renamed to Radisson Hospitality AB (publ) on 7 May 2018.
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