You must have the patience of a saint, the smile of a cherub, the generosity of an Indian prince, and the back of a camel." I venture to say that the present distinguished incumbent of the office has these qualifications and many others besides. [...] We of today must needs regard them not only as heirs to the traditions of the past but the embodiment of the virtues, and the fulfilment of the strivings, of all their predecessors. [...] The great questions of the day were those of defence and the unity of British North America in the face of American expansion and military strength at the time of the Civil War. [...] Here they did the requisite amount of entertaining of members of Parliament and senators, but one gains the impression from the records of the time that not public but private family affairs dominated the life of the house. [...] Feo sang at a public concert in aid of the building fund.36 The diaries of their friend Edmund Allen Meredith, the under-secretary of (Above) Opening of the First Parliament of the New Dominion of Canada, 1867; (right) Lord Monck and his family on the sipes of MacKay's villa, 1866.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 1977.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971/.00992
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Chapters 1 to 5 originally published Ottawa, Queen's Printer, 1967, as the author's Rideau Hall, an illustrated history of Government House, Ottawa, Victorian and Edwardian times. See page [iv] Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-on
- ISBN
- 9780773503106 9780773594524
- LCCN
- F1059.5.O9
- LCCN Item number
- H8 1977eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaBNVSL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xii, 281 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00913091 (OCoLC)887634112 (CaOOCEL)448248
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Title proper/short title
- Illustrated history of Government House, Ottawa, from Victorian times to the present day
- Transcribing agency
- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Title 3
- Copyright 5
- Dedication 6
- Contents 7
- Foreword by His Excellency The Right Honourable Jules Leger 8
- Foreword to the Centennial Edition by General Georges P. Vanier 10
- PART ONE: Victorian and Edwardian Times 12
- Introduction 13
- 1 The Beginnings 15
- 2 The Seventies 31
- 3 The Eighties 52
- 4 The Nineties 84
- 5 The Turn of the Century 104
- PART TWO: The Twentieth Century 131
- Introduction 132
- 6 The First World War 134
- 7 The Twenties 157
- 8 The Thirties 179
- 9 The Forties 203
- 10 The Canadians 227
- MAP OF RIDEAU HALL 255
- MAP OF OTTAWA AND DISTRICT 256
- NOTES 257
- LIST OF PLATES 275
- INDEX 283
