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The Connaught Building is a historic office building in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, owned by Public Services and Procurement Canada. It is located at 555 MacKenzie Avenue, just south of the United States Embassy. To the east, the building looks out on the Byward Market, and to the west is MacKenzie Avenue and Major's Hill Park.
The Dominion Public Building is a five-storey Beaux-Arts neoclassical office building built between 1926 and 1935 for the government of Canada at southeast corner of Front and Bay streets in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [1]
First Ontario Parliament Buildings, Toronto, Upper Canada (1832–1841), United Province of Canada (intermittently 1849–1859), Ontario (1867–1893) Navy Hall, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Upper Canada (1792–1796) Episcopal Palace, Quebec City, Province of Quebec (1777–1791), Lower Canada (1791–1840), United Province of Canada (1850–1853)
Ottawa [a] is the capital city of Canada.It is located in the southern portion of the province of Ontario, at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River.Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area (CMA) and the National Capital Region (NCR). [13]
The War of 1812 is often celebrated in Ontario as a British victory for what would become Canada in 1867, but Canadian historians in recent decades look at it as a defeat for the First Nations of Canada, and also for the merchants of Montreal (who lost the fur trade of the Michigan-Minnesota area). [27]
The Province of Canada, which was split at the Ottawa River into the provinces of Ontario to the west, and Quebec to the east [b] New Brunswick [c] Nova Scotia [d] The capital was established at Ottawa. Canada inherited territorial disputes with the United States over Machias Seal Island and North Rock, which remain disputed up to the present ...
Province of Ontario: A History (1927) 4 vol. with 2 vol of biographies; Lewis, Frank and Urquhart, M.C. Growth and standard of living in a pioneer economy: Upper Canada 1826–1851 Institute for Economic Research, Queen's University, 1997. McCalla, Douglas Planting the province: the economic history of Upper Canada 1784–1870 (1993).
Post-Confederation Canada (1867–1914) is history of Canada from the formation of the Dominion to the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Canada had a population of 3.5 million, residing in the large expanse from Cape Breton to just beyond the Great Lakes, usually within a hundred miles or so of the Canada–United States border.