Four Quebec First Nations buy majority stake in downtown hotel

Four Quebec First Nations buy majority stake in downtown hotel

Peter Black, Local Journalism Initiative reporter

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Four Quebec Indigenous groups have partnered to buy a majority stake in Quebec City’s Hilton Hotel.

Under the deal announced Jan. 16, the business corporations of the Naskapi of Kawawachikamach, the Mi’gmaq of Gaspé, the Huron-Wendat of Wendake and the James Bay Cree made the acquisition through a new corporation called Atenro, which means friendship in the Wendat language.

The hotel will continue to be managed by Hilton Quebec, which is owned by InnVest Ho- tels, a Toronto-based company owned in turn by Bluesky Hotels and Resorts, described in business…