We recently took a couple day trip to Victoria (walking on the Coho ferry in Port Angeles, WA). The ferry terminal in Victoria is a block or so from the Parliament Building complex. It is looking a little scruffy these days … it needs some exterior maintenance: cleaning off the algae and dirt from the stone. But it still is an impressive structure.
The garden areas are still nice … just starting to slow signs of the ending of the blooming season.
Hi Allan, just so you know, that’s the Legislative Assembly for the province of BC. Parliament is in Ottawa and represents the country.
Great photo, especially in black and white. If it needs a cleaning, they need to get that done! Cheers.
Well, we’ve called it that since I was a kid.
Not sure I’ll remember … but thanks for the info
Oh, I just checked Wikipedia and they say: “The British Columbia Parliament Buildings are in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and are home to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.”
Wikipedia isn’t always right, though. Parliament is strictly federal; nowhere in Canada would the provincial legislature be referred to as Parliament. All provinces except two (Québec and Newfoundland and Labrador) have provincial legislatures and the territories have territorial legislatures. They are all unicameral; so they do not have an upper house.
I looked up Wikipedia and saw what you did – Ontario, Québec and BC referred to as parliaments. That name could be a holdover from pre-confederation but if so it’s no longer extant. Thanks for the info; I’ll dig into this a bit further. Cheers.
From what I understood, the “parliament building” is where the “Legislative Assembly of British Columbia” meets. I agree that BC does not have parliament.
In a way it reminds me that Capitol Hill in Seattle was named in hope that would help lure the state capitol away from Olympia (didn’t work, fortunately).
I wonder if some had a hidden hope to do the same. Probably not, or they would have built it bigger. But makes a good story.
That could be. Ontario, BC snd Québec were all separate colonies perhaps with some short lived aspirations for nationhood (that was definitely the case in Québec) before Confederation. Or yes, wanted to achieve some other goal. It’s interesting that Newfoundland and Labrador actually was a parliamentary nation but did not ever use that word to describe its Provincial Assembly after joining Canada. Thanks for the discussion. Cheers.
Always nice to learn new stuff!