In June 1962, William Pattison and his business partners opened the 68-room Delport Inn in Richmond, BC.

[2] That September, Western Hotels changed the location name to the Vancouver Airport Inn,[3] and assumed the management until January 1964.

The owners, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Great-West Lifeco, and Bill Pattison,[10] sold the chain to the Realstar Group of Toronto in 1988.

[citation needed] In 1999, after CP Hotels acquired the Fairmont brand, six CP properties rebranded to supplement the existing 24 Delta ones, and the Delta chain became a wholly-owned subsidiary of CP Hotel's two-thirds-owned Fairmont Hotels and Resorts.

[14][15] After British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) acquired Delta in 2007, the brand flourished, and by 2013 the portfolio comprised 40 properties, of which 31 were managed (10 having the real estate owned), and nine were franchised.