Thebuildings, which aredesignedin aGothic Revival style,officially openedonJune 6,1866, about ayear before Canada’s Confederation. OnFebruary 3,1916, afire. …Confederation. On February 3, 1916, afire destroyed all buttheLibraryofParliament.Reconstruction began laterthatyearand wascompletedin1927. When the Centre Block of the Parliament Buildings was rebuilt in 1916, teams of horses hauled six-ton loads of Nepean sandstone blocks from a quarry near Bells Corners. Each team could make the roughly 30-km. round trip just once a day.LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA / PA-130624
Linda Seccaspina
A few weeks ago I wrote about Mrs. Lowney who lived near Bishop’s Quarry who was recorded in the Ottawa Daily Citizen that her cows would not give milk because someone working in Bishop’s Quarry had the “evil eye”. It seemed to be the norm on those days as those that hailed from Ireland in the 1800s brought over their beliefs in hexes and the dreaded evil eye.
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