A print from a disbound book of the British Empire published 1897. With an unrelated picture on the reverse, this has been trimmed from the original page size to fit boarded envelope, scan shows the trimmed page being sold.
Suitable for framing, the average page size is approx 10.75" x 8.25" or 27.5cm x 21cm, including text and border.
Average image size approx 8.75" x 6.5" or 22.5cm x 16.5cm
This is an antique print not a modern copy or reproduction and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print, please view the scans as they form part of the description.
1897 is the printing date, the original date of creation can be earlier.
All prints will be sent bagged and in a boarded envelope for maximum protection.
While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item.
Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used)
THE DOMINION PARLIAMENT HOUSE, OTTAWA.
This stately pile of buildings, standing on the banks of the Ottawa river, furnishes a fitting emblem of the unity of the great Canadian Dominion. Within its walls meet the Senate and the House of Commons of Canada. In its two Chambers are heard the representatives of every Province, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Standing, as befits the Parliament House of Canada, upon the banks of a great river, it strikes the imagination by its fine proportions and the grouping of its well-designed towers and wings. It has fallen to the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada to carry on the traditions of British Parliamentary life upon the American continent. There is ample proof that in each succeeding year the Dominion fills a higher and yet higher place among the nations of the world, and the Parliament of the Dominion is showing itself worthy of the great responsibility incumbent on it and the great future which is in store for it.