Each year visitors travel from all over the world to stay at Victoria’s iconic Fairmont Empress Hotel.
In 2008, one guest arrived, and never left. Roger the yellow-bellied marmot, a non-native species to Vancouver Island, is believed to have taken a cue from a beat poet and hopped aboard a vehicle heading west.
He eventually took up residence in the hotel’s Centennial Garden.
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