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From: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbiannewsmagazine)
Date: 20080129
Author:Halden, LoAnn

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Willa Cather: Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac Quebec City, Canada

History and literature intertwine at Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac (418-692-3861; Fairmont. com/frontenac; from $199), where Pulitzer Prizewinning author Willa Cather stayed in the late '20s and '30s while working on her Quebec-set historical novel Shadows on the Rock. Built in 1893 with Scotch bricks and copper roofing, the multi-towered 618-room property rises above the city from Cap Diamant like a Renaissance castle. A portrait of Count de Frontenac, the hotel's namesake and an ...

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