GENERAL DATA RELATIVE TO THE BUILDINGS

The buildings erected on lot No 4436 of Montcalm Ward above mentioned, and which are known as the Government Büildings, form a quadrangle, with an inner court-yard, with pavilions at the angles and in the centre of each of the secondary

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This portion, fronting on Dufferin Avenue, is occupied by the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly ; it is called the Legislative Building.

The three other sides of the square are called the Departmental Buildings, and face respectively on Grande Allée, St. Augustin Street and St. Julia Street. They contain the offices of the Lieutenant-Governor, the Executive Council, the Attorney-General, the Treasury, the Provincial Secretary, the Departments of Agriculture, of Colonization and Mines, of Public Works, -of Lands, Forests and Fisheries, of Public Instruction, the Library of the Legislature, the Queen's Printer’s office, etc.

Each face of the building is 300 feet long, but, counting the projections of the angles, fore-fronts and campanile, the outer line reaches 1405 feet. The inner line (on the court yard) is 857 feet.

The main building (Legislative Buïld-

ing), has a minimum width of 60 feet, and a maximum width of 1074 feet. Its outer walls are sixty feet high from the level of the soi! to the cornice. The top of the roof above the same level is 17 feet.

The tower of the campanile is 122 feet high at the cornice and 153 feet at the top of the roof. The crest, with the iron crown on top, is 19 feet high, making a total of height of 172 feet from the base the tower to the top of the crown.

The three sides occupied by the public departments have a minimum width of 47 feet 6 inches, and a maximum width of 57 feet 6 inches. The outer walls have the same height at the cornices on each face, 60 feet. The central pavillions are 72 feet high at the cornice and 103 feet at the top of the roof.

he entire building has a basement, a ground floor of rustic quoins, and two other stories divided by a continuous band and surmounted by a large Tonic entublature.

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À mansard roof, covered with galvanized iron, with ornaments in hammered zinc, completes the outside of the building.