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The Queen Would NOT be Amused!
I mentioned that I had been in Ottawa for a few days. When I was there I took an early morning stroll on Parliament Hill. I was lucky to not meet any politicians so my day actually had a very good start to it.
I was most amused by this statue. It is a statue of Queen Victoria sitting high on a hill. Queen Victoria officially chose Ottawa as Canada's capital in 1857. Nearly forty years later, a monument to Queen Victoria, intended as part of a lavish celebration of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, the sixtieth year of her reign, was proposed for the Hill.
The competition for this monument was only open to Canadian sculptors. Louis-Philippe Hébert, a sculptor from Quebec, won the contract. Before being placed on Parliament Hill, the statue was first displayed at the Universal Exposition in Paris in 1900.
Queen Victoria was not known for her humour, rather for her sense of conservative behaviour and decorum. It was because of this that I was so amused when I saw her statue in Ottawa.
As you can see in the picture above, her 'hill' is surrounded by the portable toilets needed for the restoration workers working on the West Block. One has to think that the Queen is rolling in her grave!
Off to Thunder Bay tonight but back home tomorrow.
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