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The Centre Block (French: Édifice du Centre) is the main building of the Canadian parliamentary complex on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, Ontario, containing the House of Commons and Senate chambers, as well as the offices of a number of members of parliament, senators, and senior administration for both legislative houses.
The first priority as outlined in the Long-Term Vision and Plan is to renovate the core historic Parliament buildings, the triad of the West Block, Centre Block, and East Block. The Centre Block cannot be renovated while it is occupied, its occupants will be relocated and will use the East and West blocks as interim space. [2]
The Library of Parliament, situated behind Centre Block.All the parliament buildings are designed in a Gothic Revival style. This collection is one of the world's most important examples of the Gothic Revival style; while the buildings' manner and design are unquestionably Gothic, they resemble no building constructed during the Middle Ages.
Centre Block at Parliament Hill - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Date: 26 July 2014, 16:55: Source: ... Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
At the same time as the governor general drops the writ for a federal election, the governor general also issues a royal proclamation summoning Parliament—setting the date for the opening of the next parliament following the election (though, the date may be amended by subsequent proclamations, so long as Parliament eventually meets as required by the Constitution Act, 1867). [2]
Conventions are said to draw in 150,000 visitors a year to Harrogate.
While the lumber and pulp mills disappeared from Ottawa in the early twentieth century, Hull across the river remained an important industrial centre and its waterfront was largely industrialized. Most of those factories have now disappeared, but a few remain. Including the E. B. Eddy Company plant directly across from the Parliament Buildings ...
Planners have approved a proposal to build a 25-storey tower block in Woking, Surrey. The building, on the site of the town's former BHS department store in Commercial Way, will include 272 flats.