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The Chateau Frontenac, as it stands today,  was designed and built as a hotel, for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, and opened in 1893. Newer portions, including the famous central tower, were completed by 1924. It was named after Louis de Buade, Count of Frontenac, and Governor of the Colony of New France, who had the nearby Citadelle constructed at the end of the 17th century. During World War II, in 1943 and 1944, two secret high level Quebec Conferences between Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and host Mackenzie King, were held at the Citadelle, and the major participants stayed at the Chateau. More recently, the hotel was sold and its name changed to the Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac in 2001; and sold again in 2011 to Ivanhoé Cambridge.