![]() ![]() Thomas Stent and Augustus Laver were awarded the contract for the Eastern and Western Departmental Buildings. Their design addressed the need for two legislative chambers, offices, a library, committee rooms, reading rooms, an office for the Clerk, a picture gallery and the Speaker’s apartment. On August 29, 1859, it was announced that Thomas Fuller and Chilion Jones would be the architects for the original Parliament Building. ![]() The structure had seemed destined to be built in the larger centres of Montreal or Toronto, until Queen Victoria chose Ottawa as the capital of Canada, as it was further from the American border. "I know no modern Gothic,” the English writer Anthony Trollope wrote of Canada’s original Parliament Buildings, “purer of its kind or less sullied with fictitious ornamentation.”
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