Montreal`s second railway hotel, but it`s first official one was CP`s Viger station, built in 1898. Viger Station was peculiar in that it was both a train station on the ground floor and a hotel on the upper floors. At roughly 38m tall, it was one of the tallest buildings in Canada at the time. Also peculiar I find is it`s small scale compared to the other Canadian railway hotels. Although the fact that it was built so early and had to compete with a parade of other hotels may explain this.
The Viger was built to rival the Windsor, and as such it was built closer to old montreal (which was essentially downtown then) and closer to the francophone bourgeois neighbourhoods. By 1935 the hotel was closed and never reopened. Two factors explain this: the gradual of shifting of "downtown" from old montreal to ste-catherine street and the 1929 crash.
Designed by Bruce Price, the Viger was the only chateau-esque railway hotel Montreal ever had.