3619 x 5284 px | 30,6 x 44,7 cm | 12,1 x 17,6 inches | 300dpi
Informations supplémentaires:
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. By 1876 the structures of Parliament Hill were finished, along with the surrounding fence and gates. However, the grounds had yet to be properly designed; Governor General Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, sent chief architect Thomas Scott to New York City to meet with Calvert Vaux and view Central Park. Vaux completed a layout for the landscape, including the present day driveways, terraces, and main lawn, while Scott created the more informal grounds to the sides of and behind the parliament. In 1901 they were the site of both mourning for, and celebration of, Queen Victoria, when the Queen's death was mourned in official ceremonies in January of that year, and when, in early summer, Victoria's grandson, Prince George, Duke of Cornwall, dedicated the large statue that stands on The Hill in the late queen's honour.
