Glory of Ottawa : Canada's First Parliament Buildings ISBN: 9780773564961 Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / McGill-Queen''s University Press Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time Subjects: Architecture;
In The Glory of Ottawa Carolyn Young takes the reader on an architectural tour of Canada's first parliament buildings. In the early 1860s these remarkable buildings - particularly the monumental Centre Block, which was destroyed by fire in 1916, and the magnificent polygonal library - became a tangible symbol of Canada's emerging nationhood and one of the most progressive and eclectic examples of the British secular Gothic Revival style.