Bennett Rooms

Named for prominent The Ranchmen's Club member Richard Bedford Bennett (1870-1947), Located at the East end of the third floor and is the Club's largest banquet room. This room features some of the most dramatic art from the Club's art collection and can be divided into two smaller rooms with a retractable sound-proof partition wall.

R.B. Bennett was Canada's 11th Prime Minister, and a founding partner of the Bennett Jones LLP international law firm. He lived at the Club during various times when the third floor was used for accommodation. A Canadian lawyer, businessman, politician, and philanthropist, he served as Prime Minister of Canada from August 7,1930 to October 23, 1935. These were the worst of the Great Depression years, after which he moved to England and was later elevated to the peerage as Viscount Bennett. We are confident he would be proud today of the room that bears his name!

Approximate Capacity: 120 

Lougheed Room

The Lougheed Room, located on the South side of the Club's third floor, acts as The Ranchmen's Club's Board Room. Overlooking the historic Lougheed House & gardens located directly across the street. It is an ideal private room for meetings, conference calls and family dinner parties.

Named for Sir James and Lady Lougheed, this is a favorite private room of the Club's members and of the well-known Lougheed family. The Lougheed’s have been listed on the Club's roster for four generations - including former Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed.
The art featured in this room includes works done by Premier Lougheed's niece, Deborah Lougheed Sinclair.

Approximate Capacity: 16

Mary Dover Room

The Mary Dover Room is in the sunny Southeast corner of the second floor, adjacent to the A.E. Cross Dining Room. This popular room is named for Mary Dover, the daughter of founding The Ranchmen's Club member A.E. Cross and his wife Nell Macleod, the daughter of Calgary's founder Col. James Macleod.

It features a painting of Mary in her ranch's garden, her O.B.E., and several medals awarded to her for work as chief recruiting officer while a Major in the Canadian Women's Army Corps during WWII. Mary Dover's family are still active members of the Club.

Approximate Capacity: 6

Smith Bedroom

The Smith Bedroom is the most intimate of the three private dining rooms located on the second floor. Finished with fine antiques and a bedroom dresser as a sideboard, it is ideal for family dinners or a small meeting.

The naming of the room as a bedroom relates to the Club's history of having bedrooms on the second floor of the Club and 'Smith's Bedroom' as the spot where members would have been able to legally secure an alcoholic beverage during the prohibition years.

Approximate Capacity: 10

Presidents Lounge

The President’s Lounge is located on the first floor of the Clubhouse and is an ideal private room for impromptu meetings, afternoon tea, and conference calls. The semi-circle of well-worn leather chairs, the historic letters, and photos that line the walls contribute to the air of intrigue and mystery.  

The President’s Lounge was a sort of hideout for certain long-term members; every man who inhabited that place had a chair, and you knew who belonged to what chair. Among the exclusive 'coterie' who occupied a President’s Lounge chair, was Jack J. Saucier Q.C., Club President from 1964-1966 and author of the 1975 publication, A Short History of the Ranchmen's Club (A Light Hearted Account).

Lawyer Saucier was a man of erudition who entertained fellow members in the President’s Lounge with delightful stories over the lunch of soup and the Ranchmen's famous cheese traditionally served in the room. 

Following Saucier's death in 1986 and with the passing of the old guard, the President’s Lounge fell quiet. In 2004, in a move reminiscent of the glory days when admission was by invitation only, President Lester invited members lunching on their own to join him in the President’s Lounge on Mondays and Thursdays, to meet and mingle in the old haunt, a tradition which continues to this day.

Approximate Capacity: 6

North Lounge

The North Lounge is in the Northeast corner of the main floor in the original 1914 section of the Clubhouse.

Formerly used as a reception-sitting room for members prior to heading upstairs via the grand staircase to the second-floor dining room, the gas fireplace and wood paneling featured in this room provides historic comfort for any event. 

Approximate Capacity: 24