Castles of the North, a joint work by 11 authors and editor Barbara Chisholm, celebrates the history of Canada’s grand hotels. Frances Backhouse contributed three chapters on the Canadian Pacific Railway’s turn-of-the-century western mountain resorts. From the rustic charm of Glacier House, Mount Stephen House and Fraser Canyon House—all, sadly, no longer standing—to the opulence of the Banff Springs Hotel and Château Lake Louise, these are the places where Canadian mountaineering and mountain tourism began.  Published by Lynx Images, 2001. ISBN: 1-894073-14-2.

Reviews

The Ottawa Sun: “… an archival celebration of 50 of the most glamorous buildings ever to grace the Dominion. Happily, the book, with its generous supply of photos, goes beyond a bricks-and-mortar account … to give [the hotels] their due as national symbols of a new Victorian Dominion.”