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The glory of Ottawa : Canada's first parliament buildings

The competition to design and construct the government buildings in Ottawa, the new national capital, was one of the most important architectural events in nineteenth-century British North America, and the resulting buildings inspired a major movement in Canadian federal architecture. The Glory of Ottawa focuses on the 1859 design competition from which these unrivalled buildings emerged
Print Book, English, ©1995
McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, ©1995