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33-557: It is situated at the intersection of Wellington Street and the Rideau Canal , across the street from the Château Laurier hotel (which was constructed around the same time). It is 600 metres (2,000 ft) from Parliament Hill and Confederation Square . Before the turn of the twentieth century, several railway companies had run lines into the city and had begun to build railway stations . In chronological order: Broad Street, in

66-674: A Fellow in 1913. Macdonald (1875–1942) was born in Melbourne , Australia. He articled to Richard B. Whitaker, M.S.A. of Melbourne, and became a junior draftsman to Robert Findlay in Montreal in 1895. After positions as a draftsman for George B. Post starting in 1903, a senior draftsman with Crighton & McKay in Wellington , New Zealand in 1905, and head draftsman with W.W. Bosworth in New York in 1906, Macdonald joined Ross and MacFarlane in Montreal as

99-491: A conference centre. In the mid-1990s a proposal was made to turn it into the new home for the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame , but these plans fell through. In his final year in office, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien announced that the building would become home to a new museum of Canadian political history, but incoming Prime Minister Paul Martin cancelled this project, and it has remained a conference centre. In 2007,

132-600: A solution. (Eighteen years previous, he had established the Canada Atlantic Railway .) Booth had built a central depot in 1895 just south of Rideau Street, on the east side of the canal and reachable by way of a covered stairway from Sappers Bridge. The station seemed to not be truly serving the needs of the railway companies, since it was built for the interests of the Canada Atlantic Railway. CPR's Royal Alexandra Interprovincial Bridge built in 1901 became

165-513: Is known as Wellington Street West , and passes through the Hintonburg and Island Park neighbourhoods before becoming Richmond Road at Island Park Drive . Prior to the 1980s, Wellington Street extended southwest to meet with Richmond Road at Broad Street, and Richmond Road continued over the C.P.R. tracks on a bridge to what is now Wellington street West. The easternmost portion of this section remains as part of Commissioner Street and feeds into

198-457: Is known as Ottawa Road #36 . A number of proposals have been made to change the street's name (to honour Sir John A. Macdonald or Pierre E. Trudeau , for example), some as recent as 2010. Wellington Street from Bay Street to the Rideau Canal showing the prominent structures located along it. See Downtown Ottawa for a map of the entire area. Ross and Macdonald Ross and Macdonald

231-559: Is named after the Duke of Wellington , in recognition of his role in the creation of the Rideau Canal, and therefore of Ottawa (see History of Ottawa ). Starting at its easternmost point, Wellington forms the northern edge of Confederation Square , south of which runs Elgin Street . West of Confederation Square, Parliament Hill can be found on its north side, while the Langevin Block , home of

264-569: Is notable for being the main street of the Parliamentary Precinct of the Parliament of Canada . It is one of the first two streets laid out in Bytown in 1826 (the other being the eastern leg of Wellington, Rideau Street ). The street runs from Vimy Place, just west of Booth Street, to the Rideau Canal where it connects with Rideau Street and delimits the northern border of the downtown core. It

297-660: The Lebreton Flats area, was the site of several stations including the first Union station (1881), which perished by fire in 1896 and again in 1900 and was rebuilt each time. The last one closed in 1920. Broad Street was near the Prince of Wales Bridge , the link to Montreal via the north shore of the Ottawa River. Broad Street itself no longer exists, erased as part of the National Capital Commission's efforts at improving

330-881: The Prime Minister's Office and of the Privy Council Office , the former American embassy and the Wellington Building can be found to the south. West of the intersection with Bank Street , are located the Confederation Building and the Justice Building (still considered within the Parliamentary Precinct), while the headquarters of the Bank of Canada can be found opposite the Hill. Beyond Parliament Hill,

363-510: The Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway and was transferred to Canadian Pacific in 1882. However, there was no centrally located station until 1895, through efforts of John Rudolphus Booth . Booth was a Canadian lumber baron known for creating Canada's largest sawmill right in Ottawa, near Chaudière Falls . His mill's capacity exceeded the distribution infrastructure, and he looked to rail as

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396-575: The Rideau Centre . It had since been home to many gatherings of civil servants and politicians. In 2001, the building hosted the G20 conference, a gathering of 20 finance ministers from around the world. As well as hosting conferences, the building was also sometimes used as a gallery. A section of the Berlin Wall was on display inside the main entrance from September 27, 1991, until January 29, 2011. Because

429-775: The Supreme Court of Canada is situated west of the Justice building, and opposite St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church . The East and West Memorial Buildings are located east and west of Lyon Street, respectively, and linked by the Memorial Arch. West of the Supreme Court is the National Library and Archives of Canada main building, with the Garden of the Provinces across the street. Between

462-623: The Alexandra (Interprovincial) Bridge. Once in Hull, there was the possibility to continue to other parts of Quebec, or to return to Ottawa by making a turn and returning over the Prince of Wales Bridge. Some of the pathways in present-day Gatineau are on locations where rails had once made this possible. In 1966, the National Capital Commission decided to remove the tracks along the east side of

495-499: The Canal as part of an urban renewal plan . They were replaced by a scenic drive , and a new Ottawa station was built just east of Ottawa's downtown area in the neighbourhood of Eastway Gardens . While the NCC had originally planned to tear down the structure, it was spared, becoming the centre of Canada's centennial celebrations in 1967. After sitting empty for many years, it was turned into

528-543: The Government Conference Centre. A new entrance and canopy at the rear of the building was built to provide greater security for the Commonwealth Prime Ministers meeting held in 1973. The same year, artist Bruce Garner sculpted bronze doors for the new entrance, titled Reflections of Canada . The tracks and sheds south of the station were demolished and now taken over by Colonel By Drive and

561-458: The Grand Trunk) and Canadian Pacific Railway operated regularly scheduled passenger trains through the facility until it ceased operations on July 31, 1966. Several tracks which originated from the main railway infrastructure in Ottawa ran immediately adjacent to the Rideau Canal (right on its east banks) and led northward into the city. They approached Union Station through several sheds. From

594-762: The National Gallery, but in the end, the government cancelled both projects. Wellington Street continues west past the Portage Bridge , north of the eastern half of the LeBreton Flats , and becomes the Kichi Zībī Mīkan after crossing Vimy Place at LeBreton Flats Park near the Canadian War Museum . West of the O-Train Bayview station , a separate segment (originally an extension of the same street)

627-508: The Senate. The works which are already well under way, will include: In February 2019, the Senate of Canada Building formally re-opened in its current role. 45°25′28″N 75°41′37″W  /  45.424525°N 75.693655°W  / 45.424525; -75.693655 Wellington Street, Ottawa Wellington Street ( French : Rue Wellington ) is a major street in Ottawa , Canada. It

660-643: The Supreme Court and the National Library is a large open area that is today a mix of parkland and large parking lots. Until the 1970s, this was home to a cluster of temporary buildings that had been erected in the Second World War to provide much-needed office space. In the 1970s, there was a plan to build both a home for the Federal Court and the National Gallery . A design competition was even held for

693-491: The building would be used to temporarily accommodate the Senate chamber (in the main concourse of the old train station) along with 21 Senate offices and three committee rooms (in the old general waiting room) while the Centre Block undergoes major rehabilitation work projected to take up to ten years. It was decided that the need to rehabilitate this historical building presented a perfect opportunity to find an interim home for

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726-680: The capital area. Ottawa became part of the Canadian Pacific Railway 's transcontinental rail service on June 28, 1886, when the first Pacific Express arrived at Broad Street from Montreal via Lachute and Hull , Quebec, on its way to Sudbury , Winnipeg , Calgary , and Port Moody , B.C. It used the existing Prince of Wales Bridge to cross the Ottawa River near the site of the present-day O-Train Bayview Station , west of Parliament Hill . This rail bridge had been built in 1880 by

759-488: The eastbound lanes of Wellington Street east of the Portage Bridge interchange. Both sections of Wellington are four-lane historic urban arterial roads with a speed limit of 50 km/h (30 mph), although the flow is generally slower than that due to high pedestrian traffic. From Bronson Avenue until Rideau Street , Wellington is also known as Ottawa Road #34 . From Western Avenue to Somerset Street , Wellington

792-642: The firm continued as Ross, Patterson, Townsend & Heughan . By 1970, the firm was known as Ross, Fish, Duschenes & Barrett . Since 2006, it has operated as DFS Inc. Architecture & Design . Ross (1879–1946) was born in Montreal, and later studied at the High School of Montreal , the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge , Massachusetts , and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris . Ross

825-492: The idea of reverting the building back to its original use sprang up as Ottawa considered various proposals for regional commuter rail systems. It is seen as being feasible to do so (although it would require a long tunnel to reconnect to the existing railway tracks)  ; however, the Government of Canada's Department of Public Works says the building is not for sale. In July 2013, it was announced by Public Works Canada that

858-675: The location of the display was not widely publicized, it was decided that the segment would be more prominent at its new location in the Canadian War Museum . The building is inspired by the Beaux-Arts architectural style . The main departures hall (now the main conference area) is based on the Great Hall of the Roman Baths of Caracalla at 3/4 scale. It is therefore similar to the now-destroyed departures hall of New York Penn Station . The cavernous structure has never been well suited to its role as

891-676: The old Union Station on Broad Street to Grand Trunk Central station on January 4, 1920, the old station was closed and the Grand Trunk station became Ottawa Union Station. The June 1912 opening of the Union Station and the Chateau Laurier was not met with much fanfare, since Grand Trunk Railway general manager Charles Melville Hays had just perished in the Titanic disaster two months previously. The Doric Roman Revival multi pillar Union station

924-480: The second railway bridge to cross the Ottawa River between Ottawa and Hull. It led to Booth's central depot. In 1905, Booth sold the Canada Atlantic Railway to the Grand Trunk Railway . In 1910, the Grand Trunk was apportioned part of the Rideau Canal in order to build a new station and hotel. The hotel would become the famous Chateau Laurier , and the station would become Ottawa's Union Station. The building

957-529: The sheds, emerged two tracks (on the east side of the Rideau Canal), and continued along, proceeding under the bridge where Wellington Street crosses the canal. They then ran immediately adjacent to the west side of Chateau Laurier , in a structure which was used for a time in a converted form, by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography . The track continued, where there is now a paved road and ran to

990-659: Was apprenticed to Brown, MacVicar & Heriot in Montreal, and later become a draftsman for the Grand Trunk Railway . He also did work with Parker & Thomas in Boston and Carrere & Hastings in New York before partnering with MacFarlane in Montreal. He was a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. He was also a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, becoming an Associate in 1904 and

1023-601: Was one of Canada's most notable architecture firms in the early 20th century. Based in Montreal, Quebec , the firm originally operated as a partnership between George Allen Ross and David MacFarlane (known as Ross and MacFarlane ) from 1907 to 1912. MacFarlane withdrew from the firm in 1912, and Robert Henry Macdonald became a partner. The Ross and Macdonald name was used until 1944, after which it became Ross & Ross , Architects, when John Kenneth Ross joined his father as partner. Following George Allen Ross's death in 1946,

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1056-421: Was opened by the Grand Trunk Railway in 1912 as Ottawa's central railway station , and the hotel was built across the street to serve travelers. A tunnel under Rideau Street links the station and the hotel. Over the course of the following years, passenger services of other railways moved to this station, thereby clarifying and unifying passenger travel in the city. When the last Canadian Pacific trains moved from

1089-468: Was originally designed by New York-based architect Bradford Lee Gilbert who was eventually dismissed due to concerns of mismanagement. The Montreal firm of Ross and MacFarlane took over the project, making many design changes to the station. Ross and MacFarlane also took over the design of the Château Laurier and later built Toronto 's Union Station . Both Canadian National Railways (successor to

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