A Western icon offers a bit of itself to its fans.

Ever a bastion of imperial history, the Fairmont Empress Hotel in Victoria is celebrating its centennial year. Since its construction in 1908, the hotel has been known for its architectural beauty—a combination of Elizabethan, Jacobean and Gothic styles mixed into a French chateau model. Now you can take a slice of that history home. During the hotel’s recent renovation, the old floors of the world-famous tearoom (which draws more than 100,000 guests per year) were spared the scrap heap. Instead the historical boards went to a local woodworker, who will create tables and tea trays made from the reclaimed wood to be used and sold at the hotel.—Susan Hollis