Talk:Delta Bessborough

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It could be merged into one as the Hotel Bessborough, as that was the original name of the hotel.

Agreed.Pascal.Tesson 03:11, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed.--Sven Erixon 03:10, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed. Also agree that it should go under the original name, which is still what it is commonly called, because brands like Delta come and go. --Skeezix1000 11:35, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Good Call. Hotel Bessborough is much better than Delta Bessborough --Sven Erixon 11:53, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. --M@sk 04:08, 3 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Number of hotel rooms originally?[edit]

The 225 rooms listed in the article is, I believe, from Marriott and is the number of restored rooms at present, not what the hotel was originally built with. If you actually go into the hotel stairways, there are locked, windowed doors that appear to have many more hallways of vacant, unrestored guest rooms behind them, on the back side of the elevators. How many guest rooms was the hotel actually built with? JL187 (talk) 16:02, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I see it cites a book page from the '60s, so my question might be backwards: If that's the total number, what number of them are actually restored and in use? JL187 (talk) 16:07, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Transaction missing?[edit]

In 1972, Donald, Dick, and Marc Baltzan purchased the Bessborough. Then, Canadian Pacific Hotels purchased Canadian National Hotels in 1982.

Isn't there a transaction missing in that sentence? Jidanni (talk) 14:36, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Seems to be an imaginary one added. Refer https://harvest.usask.ca/bitstream/handle/10388/7398/HUBERT-THESIS-2016.pdf#page=52

The Baltzan purchase was 1973 (p.46). Baltzan's ran the place from that time. Therefore, this property could not have been part of the ones CP Hotels acquired from CN in 1988. Baltzan sold it to Delta Hotels in 1989. That is 9 years before CP's 1998 purchase of the Delta chain. DMBanks1 (talk) 23:49, 8 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]