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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.
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]
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 ...
Started in 1883 and completed in 1889, the building was the first federal government office building constructed outside the Parliament Hill precinct. Originally named the Southwest Departmental Building during construction, its name from completion until 2017 came from Sir Hector-Louis Langevin , the Public Works Minister in the Cabinet of Sir ...
Ottawa's Notre-Dame Cathedral as seen through Louise Bourgeois's Maman sculpture at the National Gallery. Christ Church Cathedral; Dominion-Chalmers United Church; Notre-Dame Cathedral; See also: List of religious buildings in Ottawa, List of Ottawa churches, List of Ottawa synagogues, List of Ottawa mosques
The Library of Parliament (French: Bibliothèque du Parlement) is the main information repository and research resource for the Parliament of Canada. The main branch of the library sits at the rear of the Centre Block on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario. The library survived the 1916 fire that destroyed Centre Block. The library has been ...
The Parliament of Canada was based on the Westminster model (that is, the model of the Parliament of the United Kingdom). Unlike the UK Parliament, the powers of the Parliament of Canada were limited in that other powers were assigned exclusively to the provincial legislatures. The Parliament of Canada also remained subordinate to the British ...