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Capital Lives by Valerie Knowles
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Members of Parliament and Judges
On December 10, 1859, Parliament, sitting at
Quebec, voted to make Ottawa the fixed seat of
government of the Province of Canada. It wasn’t
until June 6, 1866, however, that the first, and, as it turned
out, the only session of the Parliament of the Province of
Canada to meet at Ottawa, opened. The following year would
see the city (“Westminster in the Wilderness”) become the
capital of the new Dominion of Canada.
With its confirmation as the fixed capital of first the
Province of the Canada and then the Dominion of Canada,
Ottawa became the second home of many parliamentarians
and the first home of others. Among those who settled here
permanently was Sir Richard Scott, who played a prominent
role in having Ottawa selected as the permanent capital of
the Province of Canada. Another parliamentarian who made
Ottawa her home was Cairine Wilson, Canada’s first woman
senator. The outstanding jurist, Sir Lyman Duff, and Eugene
Forsey, professor, labour activist and onetime senator, were
other well-known figures who put down roots in the capital.
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