Meet contributor Rosemary Neering
Assistant Editor Shanna Baker profiles regular contributor Rosemary Neering, who wrote about Victoria’s fabled Empress Hotel for our Winter issue:
When long-time Victoria resident Rosemary Neering moved from Ontario to British Columbia in 1965, she didn’t expect to stay long. “I got hooked by the history, by the absurd, unbelievable, interesting, unexpected stories this province has…. It’s like the continents tips this way and all the strange ones end up out here.”
The veteran history writer shares the landmark hotel’s spicy history in “A century of secrets at the Empress Hotel.” Employees were eager to assist with the research, she says. “I got tremendous cooperation from people at the Empress saying, ‘Hey, let me tell you about this, this was really neat.’”
Not all the secrets were from the past, though, and some she simply couldn’t reveal. “That’s another reason for writing history,” she adds with a grin. “Dead people can’t sue.”