The Château Frontenac was completed in 1893 , and was designed by American architect Bruce Price and overseen by William Van Horne , the Canadian Pacific Railway 's general manager and a key developer of the Canadian railway hotel system . The hotel was a part of a series of Chateauesque-styled hotels built for the Canadian Pacific Railway company during the late 19th and early 20th centuries . The last of the Canadian Pacific Railway 's Chateauesque hotels was completed in 1908 , leaving the rival company Grand Trunk Railway to continue the trend . The hotel was expanded in 1924 to designs by William Sutherland Maxwell . The 1924 expansion saw the addition of the hotel 's central tower . The hotel was named after Louis de Buade , Count of Frontenac , who was the Governor General of New France from 1672 to 1682 , and again from 1689 to 1698 . The World War II Allies ' met during the First and Second Quebec Conference ( in 1943 and 1944 respectively ) . During these conferences , officials including American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt , British Prime Minister Winston Churchill , and Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King , discussed strategy for World War II
Second Quebec Conference
Second Quebec Conference
Château Frontenac