![The Lord Elgin, lookin' good at 75. Image: Google Maps.](https://i0.wp.com/historynerd.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2015-700x386.png?resize=660%2C364)
Recently, the Lord Elgin Hotel celebrated its 75th anniversary. The wartime hotel on federally-owned land couldn’t have been constructed at a better time for a capital that was about to undergo a dramatic transformation. I was recently thumbing through the pages of some back issues of the RAIC Journal for an unrelated project and came across the following from the December 1941 edition.