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St.Lawrence Market:

St.Lawrence Market is the Major public market in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located at front of St East and Jarvis St in the Old Town district of Toronto. Until it was demolished to make way for redevelopment, St Lawrence Market North, on the north side on front St hosted weekly farmer's markets and antique markets. A public markets had been held on the north building site since 1803. Several building housed the markets the most recent built in 1968. Starting 2015, the north building has shut to allow for redevelopment.While the north sites is redeveloped, its market function have moved to south of the south building in a temporary building St Lawrence market south, in the south side of front St, is open Tuesday and Saturday, featuring food stalls, restaurants and the St Lawrence market gallery.

History:

The original Markets was known as Market Square and people gathered there on Saturdays at the corner of King Street and New Street, (today's Jarvis St) stretching west to Church Street and south to Palace (today's Front St), with a creek running through the center form King South to the bay. The Market square was the center of the city's social life where auction took place and public punishment were carried out. In the earliest days of the town, when slavery was still legal, this included auction of black slaves. Town Bylaws prohibited the selling of butter, egg, fish, meat, poultry, and vegetable between the hours of 6 am to 4 pm on the Saturdays, except, at the market. Whereas great prejudice hath arisen to the inhabitants of the town and township of New York and of the other adjoining townships form no place or day having been set a part for exposing publicly for sale cattle, sheep, poultry, and other provision, goods and merchandise brought by merchants, farmers and other for the necessary supply of the town of York and whereas great benefit and advantage might be derived to the inhabitants and others by establishing a weekly markets at a place and on a day certain for the purpose aforesaid. The first markets building, a temporary shelter, 24 feet (7.3 m) by 36 feet (11 m) was built in 1814. The first permanent structure was built in 1820. The City of Toronto Government is now proceeding with another markets buildings on the site of the North Buildings. A new four storey buildings. The farmer's markets has relocated to 125 The Esplanade, just south of the South Buildings. St. Lawrence Markets, founded in 1803, was the first, was the, St. Patrick's Markets at 238 Queens Street West was the second, created in 1836, and still exists in the form of an organic food court within its current building, constructed in 1912, and St. Andrew's Market in the block between Richmond, Adelaide, Brant and Maud streets was built in 1850 and is now a park.

Château Frontenac:

The Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac referred to as the Chateau Frontenac,is the historic hotel in Quebec city, Quebec, Canada. The hotel is the situated in Old Quebec, Within the Historic District's upper Town. The Chateau Frontenac was a designed by Bruce Price and built by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. The hotel is presently managed by Fairmont Hotel and Resorts. Opened in 1893, the Chateauesque styled building in 79.9 metre tall, containing 18 floors. The building's height is furthered, as it is situated at an elevation of 54 m. Its one of the first completed grand railway hotels. The Hotel was Expanded on three Occasions with the last Major expansion taking a place in 1993. The building was designated a National Historic Sites of Canada in 1981.

Design:

The Chateau Frontenac is one of Canada's grand railway hotel built by the Canadian Pacific Railways. The central fortress-like tower designed is derived form medieval chateaus found throughout France's Loire Valley. The exterior base of the hotel is largely made of grey stone ashlar, with steel framing running includes mahogany paneling, marble staircases, carved stone, wrought iron, and glass roundels. The  Chateauesque-styled buildings found in France, the Chateau Frontenac did not utilize elements of Italianate architecture, instead placing a greated emphasis on Gothic elements. The Hotel also draws certain elements form Victorian Style architecture, with rich polychromatic surfaced throughout its exterior. The architect Bruce Price was originally designed the Chateau Frontenac. Price's plan called for a horseshoe-shaped hotel, made up of four wings of unequal length, connected at obtuse angles. Public rooms  made up the majority of the first two floors if Price's designs. The Original proposal called for a square structure the completion of the Terrasse Dufferin led to the development for a more picturesque buildings. William Sutherland Maxwell has two expansions to the hotel. one in 1908-09, and another in 1920-24 (co-led with his brother, Edward Maxwell)