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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.
Parliament Hill is a limestone outcrop with a gently sloping top that was originally covered in a primeval forest of beech and hemlock. [1] For hundreds of years, the hill was a landmark on the Ottawa River for First Nations people and later for European traders, adventurers, and industrialists, marking their journeys to the interior of the continent. [1]
Winter Lights Across Canada, [1] formerly Christmas Lights Across Canada, is an annual federal government Department of Canadian Heritage event "celebrating winter in Canada" which highlights festive decorative sites along Confederation Boulevard in Canada's capital region, as well as various monuments and sites across provincial and territorial capitals across Canada.
These with the Potsdam red sandstone employed in forming the arches over the windows, afford a pleasant variety of color and effect, and contrast with the general masses of light coloured sandstone, of which the body of the work is composed. [2] Canadian silver dollar commemorating the 1939 royal tour and depicting the Parliament Buildings.
The Centennial Flame (French: Flamme du centenaire) is a monument on Parliament Hill commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Canadian Confederation. First lit in January 1967, the Flame worked with natural gas and as of 2021 uses biogas, [1] presenting a fountain that does not freeze in winter. Money thrown into it is a donation for people ...
The Queen's Gates (French: Porte de la Reine) is the formal entrance to Parliament Hill, [1] the location of the Canadian parliament buildings, in Ottawa, Ontario.Built in 1872 and set into the fence, known as the Wellington Wall, [2] [3] between piers designed in the Victorian High Gothic style that was fashionable in Canada at the time, the gates sit on the central axis of the hill's ...
Major's Hill Park is a park in downtown Ottawa, Ontario. The park stands above the Rideau Canal at the point where it enters the Ottawa River . The parliament buildings can be seen across the canal to the west, to the north of the park is the National Gallery of Canada , and to the east are the United States embassy and the Byward Market .
The East Block as viewed from the observation platform of the Peace Tower. Designed by Thomas Stent and Augustus Laver, [2] the East Block is an asymmetrical structure built in the Victorian High Gothic style, with load bearing masonry walls— being nearly 0.9 m (3 ft) thick at the ground level, expanding to 2.1 m (7 ft) thick at the base of the main tower.