A recent trip through Canada led us to the Empress Hotel in Victoria. I
understand this was completed for the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1908 and
was visited shortly afterwards by Rudyard Kipling 1908 (?). The hotel is in
the grand manner with an Empress Dining room, trophies, potted plants etc.
It is celebrated in Canada as being 'old-fashioned'. Rather like the Royal
Bombay Yacht Club for those who have stayed in line with the axis of the
Imperial Gateway to India.
To mark their association with the author, the hotel's second dining room
is called the Kipling Room. Staff assure me that Kipling wrote about or
during his stay at the hotel. Can anyone indentify this claim more closely?
The dining room offers a speciality that Rudyard might not have recognised:
Kipling's world famous creme brulee.
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