Manitoba - Legislative Bldg.

Manitoba Legislative Building, Winnipeg



From Osborne Street (City Route 62) heading north, the 1920 Manitoba Parliament Building (later name change), built in the Neoclassical style.


Winged Mercury or Hermes tops the dome.


Entering the grounds from Broadway (Trans-Canada Highway 1) to the north, one comes to Victoria Regina Imperatrix before the building, never mind that Queen Victoria had been dead for years by its construction. Meanwhile, nothing for Edward VII or George V.


Looking back north from there at Her Royal Highness's Back Side.


Architectural details, from highest to lowest, Hermes to doorway. Click on the 3rd photo if you feel like friezing for a closeup.


Continuing around to Kennedy Street on the east side of the building, and one more look skyward toward Mercury.


Statues along Kennedy Street: Jacques Cartier, Robert Burns, and Queen Elizabeth II. Why Burns? A Scottish society paid for it in 1936. Why QE2 while she's still alive? If you couldn't tell from Victoria, Manitoba loves its Commonwealth Queens.


Government House is on the southeast corner of the Legislative Building, housing Manitoba's Lieutenant-Governor. So where does Manitoba's Governor live? There isn't one. The Lieutenant-Governor of MB reports to the Governor General of Canada, who carries out the duties of the British monarch in her absence. It's a whole ceremonial structure of unimportance aside from the actual government working in the neighboring building.

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