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Castle In Canada
IT'S not necessary to go to Europe to see a feudal castle. There is one in Canada's second largest city. On a hill overlooking Toronto, stands Casa Loma, a turreted baronial castle with everything but a moat and drawbridge to send the visitor right back to the fifteenth century. During the summer months a thousand tourists a day are guided in fascination through the castle, and come away with thoughts of chivalry and intrigue. There are secret staircases, and passages between the floors and underground.
Casa Loma was built between 1911 and 1913 by the late Sir Henry Pellatt. As a small boy he had dreamed of feudal castles, and while growing up had held the ownership of one as a goal in life. After wealth came from the sale of western Canadian land, he built his castle.
There probably is no other building like Casa Loma in North America. Built to entertain royalty, the castle has 100 rooms, with servants' quarters for a staff of fifty. While Sir Henry lived, the sixteen master bedrooms had silver-plated bath fixtures; the fixtures of Lady Pellatt's bathroom were of gold. The walls and floors of all baths were of imported marble. Each bedroom has a fireplace transplanted from a castle in Europe. Sir Henry's bedroom, now on view, is forty by sixty feet, with a high ceiling. The push of a button near the canopied bed opens a secret panel to reveal a hidden staircase leading to the ground floor.
The visitor to Casa Loma is shown the Great Hall, the main living room, eighty feet square and seventy feet from carpet to ornamented ceiling. The library is eighty feet long and twenty-seven feet wide; the dining room could comfortably seat a hundred guests. "The kitchen," Sir Henry once said, "is large enough to feed a regiment."
In the cellar there is a large tiled swimming pool, a number of billiard rooms, a bowling alley, and a 200-foot rifle range. An elevator runs from the cellar to the uppermost story. The highest turret juts 300 feet above the street, and from its south crenels, you can, on a clear day, see Niagara Falls thirty miles across Lake Ontario.
Each floor is an eight-inch slab of concrete beneath hardwood boards. A three-foot drop separates each floor from the ceiling below. These cavities are entered through trap doors, and no one knows for sure all their ramifications. From the cellars there is a 600-foot-long tunnel leading to the red-tiled stables, garages and greenhouses of the estate. The castle occupies seven acres in a residential section of Toronto. It is a landmark to a man whose dream castle came to life. Since Sir Henry's death in 1939, the castle has been operated by a Toronto business men's service club for charitable affairs, dances and sightseeing. The proceeds, after maintenance and taxes, go to charity.
— James Montagnes.
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