A Castle in the Rockies - The origins of Banff Springs Hotel

In 1888, a wooden hotel opened on a bluff above the Bow River in the Canadian Rockies. It was the dream of railway baron William Cornelius Van Horne .. who famously said, "since we can't export the scenery, we'll have to import the tourists." But legend has it that on opening day, something went wrong. Somewhere inside the new hotel, a room was ...