Article: Canadian hotel takes page from medieval times

While the Waterfront Center Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia, is as modern as they come, the 5-year-old property recently rated one of the world's top 10 business hotels by a leading Canadian business magazine has resorted to a centuries-old tradition: it employs a page.

That's right, the same kind of hotel messenger who served in medieval inns, and last served in a Canadian Pacific Hotel in 1981. (Waterfront Center is one of 26 Canadian Pacific Hotels.)

The best known page in the United States was Albert (Johnny) Altieri, who worked at the Stratfield Hotel in Bridgeport, ...

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