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The first Swiss Chalet restaurant, at 234 Bloor Street West in Toronto, operated for 52 years. It was founded by Rick Mauran, son of Maurice Mauran the founder of the still-extant Chalet BBQ of Montreal. [9] The building featured exposed-beam ceilings in the Swiss chalet style. This store closed in 2006 and was demolished in 2009 as part of a ...
Wasaga Beach (or simply Wasaga) is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. Situated along the longest freshwater beach in the world, [4] it is a popular summer ...
The Susse Chalet brand was a chain of franchise hotels with all locations in the United States in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic states. Hotels featured free local calls, dataports, expanded cable television, and continental breakfast. Most properties offered meeting facilities and swimming pool.
Chalet-style house built by Swiss nurse Ruth Trummer in Hagere Selam around 1970 The Silver Beach chalet in Ranua, Finland in December 2007. With the emergence of the Alpine travel business, chalets were transformed into holiday homes used by ski and hiking enthusiasts.
The Nottawasaga River is a river in Simcoe County and Dufferin County in Central Ontario, Canada. [1] It is part of the Great Lakes Basin, and is a tributary of Lake Huron.The river flows from the Orangeville Reservoir in the town of Orangeville, Dufferin County, through the Niagara Escarpment [2] and the Minesing Wetlands, the latter a wetland of international significance (Ramsar Convention ...
The Swiss Chalet National was held from December 15 to 19, 2010 at the Wesbild Centre in Vernon, British Columbia. 18 men's teams were playing for 8 quarterfinal spots in a round-robin format. The purse for this event was CAD$100,000. The event was the second men's Grand Slam event of the 2010-11 curling season.
The chalet first appeared in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's writings where it spread to France and then throughout Europe. The Swiss chalet style became a symbol of a simple, pastoral life built on democracy, freedom and a connection with nature. The wide variety of local styles and building materials was reduced to a wooden cottage with a gently ...
Swiss chalet style (German: Schweizerstil, Norwegian: sveitserstil) is an architectural style of Late Historicism, originally inspired by rural chalets in Switzerland and the Alpine (mountainous) regions of Central Europe. The style refers to traditional building designs characterised by widely projecting roofs and facades richly decorated with ...