Calgary's King Edward Hotel (Historic Alberta Hotel and a History of Its Managers‪)‬

Like its famous four-star counterpart in Toronto, the King Edward Hotel in Calgary dates from the early twentieth-century reign of its namesake, King Edward VII. Calgary's King Eddy is the oldest continuously operating hotel in the city and the sole remaining example of its vintage. (1) Apart from the lavish Palliser Hotel, built by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1914, the King Edward is the only existing building that illustrates Ninth Avenue's early manifestation as Calgary's hotel row. Atlantic Avenue, as it was originally known, boasted the Canadian Pacific Railway station, the immigration hall, land offices, employment agencies, and restaurants. Dozens of hotels gave the avenue its reputation as "Whisky Row," and none was more notorious than a predecessor of the King Eddy, the Atlantic Hotel, known after a 1902 murder as the "Bucket of Blood." The Atlantic was the last chance saloon for those leaving Calgary to the east, and the first chance saloon for those arriving from that direction.