Dominion Atlantic Hotels and Resorts

DAR's hotel chain at its height in the 1936 timetable

Beginning with the purchase of the Aberdeen Hotel in Kentville, which under DAr ownership became the Cornwallis Inn, the DAR built a chain of hotels to attract and serve passenger traffic. The DAR hotels were medium-sized but high-class, retaining the classic and elegant style of the giant CPR hotels found across Canada. They helped make the DAR a sort of CPR in miniature with its own steamers and hotel chain. The hotels were sold after World War Two, but several remain in opeation as landmarks in Nova Scotia's tourism industry.

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