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Picture Name Location Years of construction : Parliament Buildings of Canada Ottawa, Ontario: 1859-1876 (Centre Block: 1916-1927) : Legislative Building of Alberta Edmonton ...
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.
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
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.
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 ...
In Canada, Government House is a title given to the official residences of the country's monarch, various viceroys (the governor general, the lieutenant governors), and territorial commissioners.
In 1791, the Province of Quebec was divided into Upper and Lower Canada, each with an elected legislative assembly, an appointed legislative council, and a governor, mirroring the parliamentary structure in Britain. During the War of 1812, American troops set fire to the buildings of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada in York (now Toronto).