The Prince of Wales Hotel/Lodge is celebrating its 90th Birthday; it was built by the Great Northern Railway of the USA, the last in a chain of 1920s luxury hotels, backcountry chalets and tent camps. The Prince of Wales Hotel is a historic railroad hotel overlooking Upper Waterton Lake, near the Canada-United States border. Constructed between 1926 and 1927 during one of Waterton’s windiest and snowiest winters, the hotel was built by the Great Northern Railway of the U.S. to lure tourists during the prohibition era. The hotel was named after the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII), in a transparent attempt to entice him to stay in the hotel on his 1927 Canadian tour, but the prince stayed at a nearby ranch instead.