The Jasper Park Lodge is a 442 room hotel situated on 700 acre site along Lac Beauvert in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada. The hotel was established in 1921 by Canadian National Railway and is one of Canada's grand railway hotels. Hotel history Grand Trunk Pacific Railway In the early 1900s the Government of Canada envisioned a new northern transcontinental railway to compliment the Canada's first transcontinental railway which ran closer to the Canada–US border. The Grand Trunk Railway under the subsidiary Grand Trunk Pacific Railway was contracted to construct and operate the Western Canadian portion of the new line after legislation was passed by Parliament in 1903. The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway followed the original Sandford Fleming "Canadian Pacific Survey" route from Jasper, Alberta through the Yellowhead Pass, which reached the Alberta/British Columbia border in November 1911. The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway's lines largely through the Yellowhead Pass were largely duplicated by Canadian Northern Railway shortly after construction. In March 1911, Grand Trunk Pacific Railway president Charles Melville Hays wrote Minister of the Interior Frank Oliver seeking land and the exclusive privilege to build and operate hotels in the Jasper Forest Park. Hays was eager to emulate the success of the Canadian Pacific Railway's grand hotels in Banff, Lake Louise, and Rogers Pass. Hays sought to build the Chateau Miette hotel near the Miette Hot Springs, and gain an exclusive lease for a rail line to the springs. The proposed location was identified later in 1911 by Arthur Oliver Wheeler whom the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway commissioned to map the Jasper Park and Mount Robson region to identify sites for hotels, chalets, and trails. The Government of Canada was not interested in providing an exclusive rights, and instead sought to offer land through a lease system. The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and local government officials were prepared to come to an agreement in 1912, with a design completed by the company, a proposed lease for 42 years, and suggested rent of $500 per year. However, the agreement was delayed by questions concerning school lands, and which department had jurisdiction over the waterways in the park. While the delay continued, the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway developed plans for two additional hotels, one near the Jasper townsite on Snape's Hill with an attached golf course allegedly designed with the assistance of Arthur Conan Doyle, and a second hotel on the south