The Empress
The Fairmont Empress, formerly and commonly referred to as The Empress, is one of the oldest hotels in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Located on 721 Government Street, it is situated in Downtown Victoria, facing the city's Inner Harbour.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hotel
- Description: Historic hotel in Victoria, British Columbia
- Also known as: “The Fairmont Empress”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Royal British Columbia Museum and Statue of James Cook.
Royal British Columbia Museum
Museum
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The Royal British Columbia Museum, founded in 1886, is a history museum in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The "Royal" title was approved by Queen Elizabeth II and bestowed by Prince Philip in 1987, to coincide with a royal tour of that year. Royal British Columbia Museum is situated 210 metres south of The Empress.
Statue of James Cook
Memorial
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A statue of Captain James Cook stood in Victoria, British Columbia, from 1976 until 2021, when it was toppled in a protest. It was a fibreglass copy of a bronze statue of 1912 by John Tweed in Whitby, Yorkshire, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Victoria and Chinatown.
Victoria
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Victoria is the capital of Canada's westernmost province; British Columbia, near the southern tip of Vancouver Island. Victoria contains a perfect combination of the old and new Canada.
Chinatown
Neighborhood
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The Chinatown in Victoria, British Columbia is the oldest Chinatown in Canada and the second oldest in North America after San Francisco. Victoria's Chinatown had its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century in the mass influx of miners from California to what is now British Columbia in 1858.
Esquimalt
Town
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The Township of Esquimalt is a municipality at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. It is bordered to the east by the provincial capital, Victoria, to the south by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, to the west by Esquimalt Harbour and… Esquimalt is situated 3½ km west of The Empress.
The Empress
- Categories: hotel building, accommodation, building, and tourism
- Location: Victoria, Capital Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, North America
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Portuguese—“The Empress” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “皇后酒店 (维多利亚)”
- Chinese: “皇后酒店”
- Esperanto: “Hotelo Empress”
- Esperanto: “Hotelo Imperiestrino”
- French: “Empress Hotel”
- German: “Empress”
- German: “The Empress Hotel”
- Italian: “The Empress”
- Japanese: “エンプレスホテル”
- Japanese: “ジ・エンプレス”
- Persian: “امپرس (هتل)”
- Persian: “امپرس”
- Portuguese: “Empress Hotel”
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