In February 2019 the Senate moved to the Building of the Senate of CanadaA former train station that was built in 1912. The Senate will take this temporary location during parliament Medium block – The constant home of the Senate – is rehabilitated.
Although the Center Block is closed for rehabilitation work, Canadians can still experience their Art and architecture Through the Immersive of the Senate Virtual tour.
A few iron goals in the Wellington Street have served as the main entrance to the Parliament Hill site for almost 150 years. Grand and richly decorated, impressive and yet complicated and are known as the queen's gates in honor of Queen Victoria, the long -term 19TH-British monarch of the tongue who wore the crown when Canada became a nation.
Now you are ready for the next 150 years after the restoration.
“They have a high cultural, cultural and architectural importance and they are works of art,” said Rebecca Casagrande, specialist for nature conservation materials in public services and procurement Canada (PSPC).
“It is important for PSPC to save these goals for the coming generations.”
The in 1876 by HR Ives and Company by HR Ives and Company in Montreal and manufactured in Montreal in 1876 and manufactured in Montreal in 1876.
Their impressive durability can be attributed to the materials from which they have been forged: a mixture of cast iron and high -quality wrought iron from the United Kingdom.
“At that time they were seen as the best example of iron in North America,” said Ms. Casagrande, who gave technical advice and guidance to the recovery project team.
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The main gates and the two smaller pedestrian goals on both sides were removed from the Wellington Street Wall in March 2024.
Due to its considerable weight – the main gates alone weigh the equivalent of an adult black rhino – a mobile crane was introduced to carry out lifting and loading.
After the gates were attached to trucks, the gates to the Dominion Restization workshop were brought to Montréals South Shore. The Canadian company, which specializes in the restoration of the cultural heritage, won the competition to restore it.