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The Prince of Wales Hotel is located in Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta , Canada , overlooking Upper Waterton Lake, near the Canada- U.S. border. Constructed between 1926 - 1927 , the hotel was built by the American Great Northern Railway to lure American tourists during the Prohibition -era south of the border. The hotel was named after the Prince Of Wales (later King Edward VIII ), in a transparent attempt to entice him to stay in the hotel on his 1927 Canadian tour, but the Prince stayed at a nearby ranch instead. The Prince of Wales Hotel enjoys the distinction of being the sole establishment among Canada's Grand Railway Hotels to have been built by an American, as opposed to a Canadian, railway company. The hotel was designated a national historic site by the Canadian government in 1995 . EXTERNAL LINK REFERENCES
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