Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth, commonly called the Queen Elizabeth Hotel (Le Reine Elizabeth), is a grand hotel in Montreal, Quebec.

Located at 900, boul. René-Lévesque Ouest in the heart of Montreal, it is connected to the Gare Centrale train station.

Many famous guests have stayed there, including Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen Mother, Prince Charles, Charles de Gaulle, Indira Gandhi, Jacques Chirac, Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Perry Como, Joan Crawford, John Travolta, and Mikhail Baryshnikov.

The hotel reached worldwide fame when John Lennon and Yoko Ono, who had been refused entry into the United States, conducted their Bed-In and recorded the song Give Peace a Chance in Room 1742 at the hotel, between May 26 and June 2, 1969.

The French name, Le Reine Elizabeth, may appear startling because of the use of the masculine article le. The article does not apply to the feminine noun Reine, but to the masculine noun Hôtel.

External link

• Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth (official site)