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There are currently fourteen legislative buildings in Canada: Parliament in Ottawa, ... Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, federal Parliament (1916–19) [1]
This is a category for federal, provincial, and territorial legislative buildings of Canada Wikimedia Commons has media related to Legislative buildings in Canada . See also: Category:City and town halls in Canada
Canadian silver dollar commemorating the 1939 royal tour and depicting the Parliament Buildings. The sculptural ornament is overseen by the Dominion Sculptor. [ 3 ] Five people have held the position since its creation in 1936: Cléophas Soucy (1936–50), William Oosterhoff (1949–62), Eleanor Milne (1962–93), Maurice Joanisse (1993–2006 ...
The Parliament of Canada's upper and lower houses are housed in Centre Block, the main building of the Canadian parliamentary complex. In 2019, the House of Commons was temporarily relocated to the complex's West Block and the Senate to the Senate of Canada Building , to accommodate the rehabilitation of Centre Block , which began in the same year.
Each province's legislative assembly, along with the province's lieutenant governor, form the province's legislature (which is called a parliament or general assembly in some provinces). Historically, several provinces had bicameral legislatures , but they all eventually dissolved their upper house or merged it with their lower house, so that ...
From 1867, the Commons met in the chamber previously used by the Legislative Assembly of Canada until the building was destroyed by fire in 1916. It relocated to the amphitheatre of the Victoria Memorial Museum — what is today the Canadian Museum of Nature, where it met until 1922. Until the end of 2018, the Commons sat in the Centre Block ...
Media in category "Parliament of Canada buildings" The following 2 files are in this category, out of 2 total. Canada $1 Centennial banknote, with dates, reverse.jpg 465 × 214; 31 KB
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.