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facing Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada. As the home of the Privy Council Office and Prime Minister's Office, it is the ''de facto'' headquarters of the executive branch of the Canadian government. Accordingly, the term "Langevin Block" is sometimes used as a metonym for the Prime Minister's Office (...)
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The Centennial Flame is a fountain with a symbolic flame located in front of the Peace Tower, in Ottawa, Canada. The flame was lit by Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson the evening before January 1, 1967 to officially kick off the Canadian Centennial celebrations. The flame was placed in the middle of the walkway that runs from the gates of Parliament Hill on Wellington Street to the main (...)
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The Victoria Building is an office building at 140 Wellington Street, just across from the Parliament of Canada. It houses the offices of a number of parliamentarians, mostly members of the Canadian Senate. The building, designed by John Albert Ewart, was completed in 1928 by private developers, though the federal government quickly leased much of it. It has held a wide variety of tenants (...)
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. ''Colline du Parlement'', colloquially The Hill) is a scenic location on the southern banks of the Ottawa River in downtown Ottawa, Ontario. Its Gothic revival suite of buildings – the Parliament Buildings – serves as the home of the Parliament of Canada; the best known of these buildings is the Centre Block, with its prominent Peace Tower, a national symbol (...)
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The National War Memorial (also known as ''The Response''), is a tall granite cenotaph with acreted bronze sculptures, that stands in Confederation Square, Ottawa, and serves as the federal war memorial for Canada. Originally built to commemorate World War I, in 1982 the memorial was also enscribed with the dates "1939-1945," for World War II, and "1950-1953," for the Korean War (...)
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, and the City of Gatineau, Quebec. The Peace Tower is part of the Canadian Parliament Buildings in Ottawa, Ontario. It is joined to the Centre Block, which contains the House of Commons and Senate chambers. The Peace Tower is the tallest and most prominent symbol of the Canadian Parliament Buildings (...)
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, Canada. The first phase of the project was completed in 1991. It covered an entire city block between Metcalfe and O'Connor south of Queen Street. The twenty-storey building was unusual in Ottawa for its visual flair. The eastern side was marked by a large plaza modeled after the Roman Coliseum. The building opened in the middle of a deep recession and initially had trouble being filled (...)
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: ''Monument aux Valeureux'') is a military monument located in the Canadian capital of Ottawa, commemorating fourteen signal figures from the military history of the country. The work consists of nine busts and five statues, all life-sized, by artists Marlene Hilton Moore and John McEwen (...)
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in Ottawa, Ontario. The House of Commons and the Senate are located in this building, as well as a number of offices for members of Parliament (MPs), Senators, and senior administration for both Chambers. The Prime Minister's parliamentary office is also in the Centre Block, although he also has an office across the street in the Langevin Block where most of his staff are located (...)
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The Rideau Canal, also known as the Rideau Waterway, connects the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on the Ottawa River to the city of Kingston, Ontario on Lake Ontario. The canal was opened in 1832 and is still in use today, "with most of its original structures intact".[http://whc.unesco (...)
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