The Empress Hotel in Vancouver is celebrating its 100th birthday. One of the great works of early BC architect Francis Rattenbury, who also designed the BC Legislative Building (and the courthouse in Nelson BC, an icon of my childhood) and who was murdered by his chauffeur in 1935. Last two times I was in Victoria, I went to the Bengal Room in the Empress Hotel for the curry buffet. "Vaut le voyage," as Michelin says.
But the really exciting Victoria centenary is just up the street: Purdy's Chocolates, founded 1907. Sweet times in Victoria in 1907.
