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The Mcdougall Centre of Calgary, seat of government for Southern Alberta. It's where the southern oriented part of the caucus meets when not needed in the legislature in Edmonton. It's comparable in architectural detail to and larger than both the Nova Scotia and PEI legislatures I believe.



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Definitely looks like it could have been inspired by the Province Houses (especially PEI's) but looks newer, relatively speaking.
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Definitely looks like it could have been inspired by the Province Houses (especially PEI's) but looks newer, relatively speaking.
The NS legislature was built from 1811-1819, and the McDougall Centre was 1906-1908. PEI's legislature was completed in 1847. The elected assembly in NS goes back to 1758, and is the oldest in Canada. It must be one of the longest-running democratic institutions in the world (not first or second, but maybe it would show up in a top 50 list somewhere on Wikipedia, which is still pretty neat).

They do have a somewhat similar exterior but that type of plan was so ubiquitous that it's hard to say what inspired what. Province House in Halifax is Palladian, inspired by the Italian architect of the 1500's, who built on ancient Roman and Greek styles. There are lots of very similar buildings from about the same period in the UK, but not many in North America.
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The marine building sure looks swallowed up in that shot!
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Definitely looks like it could have been inspired by the Province Houses (especially PEI's) but looks newer, relatively speaking.
I don't think it was inspired by either of them, it's just similar in size and beauty. It was actually Alberta's first Teachers College It's designed in the Renaissance Revival style. It wasn't restored and converted into the Centre of Government for Southern Alberta until 1987.
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The Mcdougall Centre of Calgary, seat of government for Southern Alberta. It's where the southern oriented part of the caucus meets when not needed in the legislature in Edmonton. It's comparable in architectural detail to and larger than both the Nova Scotia and PEI legislatures I believe.



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Nova Centre construction in Halifax:


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Some nice Toronto "Grit" by: Sally Hunter on Flickr.com
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Drew, the title of the thread is "a few" at a time. The typical maximum is 4 per post as per courtesy. It's in order to prevent mass postings of 30+ images as is common in other threads.
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Not in Calgary but close enough...



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Drew, the title of the thread is "a few" at a time. The typical maximum is 4 per post as per courtesy. It's in order to prevent mass postings of 30+ images as is common in other threads.

My bad thought I was in the other thread.
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Now that's a fantastic overhead of Halifax!..Also, good to see some cranes.
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