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Fairmont Helmcken House
Empress Hotel FRANCIS
⌂ 10 Elliot St Square §(250) RATTENBURY

⌂ 721 Government St 356 7226 # 10am–5pm
∑ fairmont.com/empress- Mon–Sat (to 9pm Thu), 1– Born in Britain, Francis
victoria 5pm Sun ¢ Sep–May: Mon Rattenbury (1867–1935)
traveled to Canada after
Completed in 1908 to a Located in Elliot Square in the working as an architec­
Francis Rattenbury design, Inner Harbour area, the home tural apprentice for
the Empress is one of Victoria’s of Hudson’s Bay Company six years. Shortly after
best-loved sights. Close to the employee Dr. John Sebastian arriving, the 25­year­
Parliament Buildings, the Helmcken was built in 1852 old won a provincial
hotel overlooks the Inner and is thought to be one of competition to design
Harbour and dominates the the oldest houses in British the new Parliament
skyline with its ivy-covered Columbia. The doctor built his Buildings. He went
Edwardian splendor. house with Douglas fir trees on to design several
felled in the surrounding important structures,
forest. The elegantly designed including the Fairmont
4 clapboard dwelling contains Empress Hotel in
Victoria, and the Burns
many of its original furnishings,
Bastion Square including the piano, which Manor in Calgary. After
visitors are permitted to play. returning to Britain, he
∑ bastionsquare.ca
Among other exhibits are a was brutally murdered
This beautifully restored collection of antique dolls by his wife’s chauffeur
square faces Victoria’s and the family’s clothes, and lover.
picturesque harbor and shoes, and toiletries.
contains some of the city’s
oldest 19th-century buildings.
Upper
What were once luxury hotels Harbour CENTENNIAL
SQUARE
and offices, built during the City Hall
boom era of the late 1800s, Johnson Market PANDORA AVENUE
Street
now house several eclectic Bridge Square J O H NS O N STR EET
restaurants. Restoration
began in 1963, when it was Bastion B LA NS H A RD ST
Square
discovered that the Hudson’s Victoria The Bay YATES STREET
Bay Company’s fur-trading Harbour Centre
post Fort Victoria, established Wharf WHARF STRE E T L AN G LEY ST RE ET Craigdarroch Castle
in 1843, once stood on this site. Street D O U G L A S S T R E E T FORT STREET 1 mile (1.6 km)
Marina
Seattle G O V E R N M E N T S T R E E T B RO UG HTON ST
0.6 miles (1 km)
5 = COURTNEY STREET Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Market Square Ship Point HUMBOLDT ST Maritime Museum COURTNEY ST
Marina
of British Columbia
∑ marketsquare.ca James Fairmont BURDETT AVE
Bay Empress Hotel
Two blocks north of Bastion Government House
Square on the corner of OSWEGO ST B EL L E VIL LE S T R EET DOWNTOWN 1 mile (1.6 km)
Johnson Street, Market Square Bus Terminal
has some of the finest QUÉBEC STREET Thunderbird
Victorian saloon, hotel, and KINGSTON STREET R E E T Park HUMBOLDT ST
Helmcken
store facades in Victoria. Most Royal BC House
of the buildings were built in Parliament Museum QUADRA STREET
the 1880s and 1890s, during SUPERIOR STREET Buildings G O V E R N M E N T S T R E E T
the boom period of the M E N Z I E S S T S U PE RI O R ST R EET S O U T H G A T E ST R E E T
Klondike gold rush. After
decades of neglect, the area M I C H I G A N S T M I C H I G A N S T R E E T
received a face-lift in 1975. South
The square is now a shoppers’ JAMES BAY POWELL ST YOU N G ST Park
paradise, with a variety of PARRY ST D O U G L A S STRE E T Beacon Hill
stores selling books, jewelry, T O R O N T O S T R E E T Park
musical instruments, and S I M C O S T R E E T AVALO N ROAD
M E N Z I E S S T 0 meters 300 N
arts and crafts.
Emily Carr
House 0 yards 300
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