Peace Tower, Parliament Building, Ottawa, Canada
(Seen from the room window of the Fairmont Château Laurier Hotel --- Full moon was on August 26, 2018)
The Peace Tower, also known as the Tower of Victory and Peace is a focal bell and clock tower sitting on the central axis of the Centre Block of the Canadian parliament buildings in Ottawa, Ontario.
The present incarnation replaced the 180 ft Victoria Tower after the latter burned down in 1916, along with most of the Centre Block; only the Library of Parliament survived.
It serves as a Canadian icon and had been featured prominently on the Canadian twenty-dollar bill directly adjacent the queen's visage, until the change to polymer.
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Peace Tower, Parliament Building, Ottawa, Canada
(Seen from the room window of the Fairmont Château Laurier Hotel --- Full moon was on August 26, 2018)
The Peace Tower, also known as the Tower of Victory and Peace is a focal bell and clock tower sitting on the central axis of the Centre Block of the Canadian parliament buildings in Ottawa, Ontario.
The present incarnation replaced the 180 ft Victoria Tower after the latter burned down in 1916, along with most of the Centre Block; only the Library of Parliament survived.
It serves as a Canadian icon and had been featured prominently on the Canadian twenty-dollar bill directly adjacent the queen's visage, until the change to polymer.
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Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Canada
Parliament Hill, a promontory overlooking the Ottawa River, is home of Canada’s national government. The Parliament Buildings house the Senate and House of Commons.
The buildings, which are designed in a Gothic Revival style, officially opened on June 6, 1866, about a year before Canada’s Confederation.
On February 3, 1916, a fire destroyed all but the Library of Parliament. Reconstruction began later that year and was completed in 1927.
History
In 1857 Queen Victoria chose the small town of Ottawa for the new capital, and an area known as Barrack Hill—which was used as living quarters for the Royal Engineers working on the Rideau Canal—was chosen as the site for the federal buildings.
The complex is made up of three buildings: the Centre Block, which houses Parliament and adjoins the Library of Parliament and the Peace Tower; and the East and West blocks, each of which is an administrative building.
The site is set within a designed landscape in the picturesque tradition. The Centre Block is centrally located at the hill’s highest point near a steep escarpment. The East and West blocks are to each side of the Centre Block and create a public plaza facing the city’s urban core. The surrounding open grounds are interspersed with monuments of important political figures.
www.britannica.com/topic/Parliament-Building-Ottawa-Ontario
Parliament Hill is a limestone outcrop with a gently sloping top that was originally covered in primeval forest of beech and hemlock. For hundreds of years, the hill served as a landmark on the Ottawa River for First Nations and, later, European traders, adventurers, and industrialists, to mark their journey to the interior of the continent.
After Ottawa—then called Bytown—was founded, the builders of the Rideau Canal used the hill as a location for a military base, naming it Barrack Hill. A large fortress was planned for the site, but was never built, and by the mid 19th century the hill had lost its strategic importance.
In 1858, Queen Victoria selected Ottawa as the capital of the Province of Canada, and Barrack Hill was chosen as the site for the new parliament buildings, given its prominence over both the town and the river, as well as the fact that it was already owned by the Crown. On 7 May, the Department of Public Works issued a call for design proposals for the new parliament buildings to be erected on Barrack Hill, which was answered with 298 submitted drawings. After the entries were narrowed down to three, Governor General Sir Edmund Walker Head was approached to break the stalemate, and the winners were announced on August 29, 1859.
Ground was broken on December 20, 1859, and the first stones laid on April 16 of the following year, and Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII), laid the cornerstone of the Centre Block on September 1. The construction of Parliament Hill became the largest project undertaken in North America to that date.
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.
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 late September, Victoria's grandson, Prince George, Duke of Cornwall (later King George V), dedicated the large statue that stands on the hill in the late queen's honor.
The "largest single vigil" ever seen in the nation's capital took place in 2001, when 100,000 people gathered on the main lawn to honour the victims of the September 11 attacks on the United States.
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Ottawa, Canada to Kangerlussuaq, Greenland
August 27, 2018 – Ottawa to Kangerlussuaq, Greenland - Embarkation
06:30 – 11:00 - A buffet breakfast will be served in Wilfrid’s Restaurant
Attach the cabin tags to your luggage and leave it inside your room. The hotel porter will collect your luggage and take it to the lobby. Please keep anything you may need during the day in your carry-on (hand) luggage and take it with you as you won’t see your checked bags until you are on board the ship.
09:30 – Please be in the hotel lobby to identify your luggage to the bus driver before it is placed on the bus. This will ensure we do not leave any luggage behind.
09:45 – We depart from the hotel for the private terminal at Esso Avitat to board our charter flight.
11:35 – First Air charter flight 7F6310 departs.
- The flying time is about 4 hours and 35 minutes
- The plane will make a stop in Iqualit to refuel.
- Greenland time is 2 hours ahead of Ottawa.
19:00 - On arrival in Kangerlussuaq, you will be transferred to the landing site where you board the ship’s Zodiacs for a short ride for embarkation at sea.
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Esso Avitat (private) Terminal, Ottawa, Canada
First Air Charter Flight 7F6310
11:35 – First Air charter flight 7F6310 departs.
- The flying time is about 4 hours and 35 minutes
- The plane will make a stop in Iqualit to refuel.
- Greenland time is 2 hours ahead of Ottawa.
Bradley Air Services Limited, operating as First Air, is an airline headquartered in Kanata, a suburb of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
It operates services to 34 communities in Nunavut, Nunavik, and the Northwest Territories. The majority of its fleet is available for charters worldwide. First Air has assisted in various humanitarian missions such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, airlifting relief supplies and equipment.
Its main base, which includes a large hangar, cargo and maintenance facility, is located at Ottawa Macdonald–Cartier International Airport, with hubs at Iqaluit Airport, and Yellowknife Airport.
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