A black-and-white portrait of a young Queen Victoria keeps watch from the corner of the Library at the Fairmont Empress Hotel. Leaded windows look out to the front lawn and the Inner Harbour ...

Victoria's Fairmont Empress Hotel will be behind scaffolding until the spring as renovations are needed for the picturesque building after decades of damage from ivy growth. The leafy plant gave ...

but the renewed Fairmont Empress is still an atraction in its own right for Victoria visitors, even if you're not actually staying at the grand hotel. If the former Empress was Queen Elizabeth ...