La Maison Des Canadiens

canada houseThe Queen, Duke Of Edinburgh And Princess Alexandra Attend Reception At Canada House on April 19, 2015 in London, England. The London highlight will probably be on Canada House on Wednesday, when the Queen snips the ribbon to formally reopen the building in a gala ceremony with visiting Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. In the course of the London Blitz in 1940 and 1941, a bomb fell outside Canada Home, only some metres away from Lester B. Pearson, the country’s future Canadian prime minister who was the secretary to the High Commissioner on the time. Nor was the building helped by years of vacancy, after the Mulroney authorities moved staff into other buildings and step by step shut down Canada House as part of a downsizing plan. As well as the three parts of Parliament that are the Sovereign, the Senate and the Home of Commons.

It was designed by Sir Robert Smirke, the British Museum designer, within the Greek revival fashion and initially constructed to house the Union Club and the Royal College of Physicians. One solution to cool the housing sector is to extend rates of interest, but that may damage the slowing economy, which has been hit exhausting by the decline in oil costs. But for all the 21st-century technology, it is the historic high quality of the building, and its restoration, that will take centre stage when Canada Home reopens. I’ve lived in Canada all my life and sadly to say I didn’t rating 100% all of … Read More