A woman's touch : Kate Reed and Canada's Grand Hotels / by Kate Armour Reed.

Main entry:

Reed, Kate Armour, author.

Title & Author:

A woman's touch : Kate Reed and Canada's Grand Hotels / by Kate Armour Reed.

Publication:

[Canada] : John Aylen Books, [2016]
©2016

Description:

[8], 299, [18] pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm

Notes:
1879-1880: Wreck of matter, crush of worlds -- 1820-1879: A young Victorian -- 1880: The wizard of Menlo -- 1880-1886: Solitude on the Hudson -- 1887-1893: Come, hurly-burly, come -- 1893-1894: Faint implications, pale delicacies -- 1894-1898: The honour of a house is hospitality -- 1898-1900: Montreal and the Square Mile set -- 1900-1903: Life at the Château Frontenac -- 1903-1905: Voyages of discovery -- 1905-1912: Frontier with fingerbowls -- 1916-1919: King and Country -- 1919-1928: A changing world -- 1928: Row upon row -- Epilogue.

Summary:

Kate Reed, 1856-1928, was Canada's first decorator, a career woman before the term was coined. Famous for creating the interiors of grand hotels and mountain lodges built by the Canadian Pacific Railway at the end of the 19th century, Kate Reed was the arbiter of style that marked Canada as an early tourist destination.

Resources:
Kate Reed

ISBN:

9780995334106 paper
0995334102

Subject:

Reed, Kate, 1856-1928 Biography.
Railroad Canadian Pacific Railway.
Hotels Canada Design and construction.
Hotels Canada History.
Hôtels Canada Histoire.
Hotels.
Hotels Design and construction.
Canada.

Form/genre:

Biographies.
History.

Added entries:

Kate Reed and Canada's Grand Hotels
Canada's Grand Hotels

Holdings:

Location: Library main 309462
Call No.: BIB 254716
Status: Available

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