Parliament Hill, Ottawa

Posted by adminnorms | Uncategorized | Wednesday 19 August 2009 12:03 pm

It was taken last August 15 when I traveled to Ottawa, the capital of Canada. Our first destination is to visit the most beautiful and famous tourist attraction of Ottawa, Canada, The Parliament Hill building.

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Parliament Hill is an area of Crown land 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, and contains a number of architectural elements of national symbolic importance. Parliament Hill attracts approximately 3 million visitors each year (wikipedia).

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Originally the site of a military base in the 18th and early 19th centuries, development of the site into a governmental precinct began in 1859, after Bytown was chosen by Queen Victoria as the capital of the Province of Canada. Following a number of extensions to the parliament and departmental buildings, and a fire in 1916 that destroyed the Centre Block, Parliament Hill took on its present form with the completion of the Peace Tower in 1927. Since 2002, an extensive $1 billion renovation and rehabilitation project has been underway throughout all of the precinct’s buildings; work is not expected to be complete until after 2020. (wikipedia)

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The male below is my brother with his girlfriend Betty. They captured the Parliament building.

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