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Panoplies placed above this door, to the right and left, contain, carved in relief, the arms of the first two Lieutenant-Governors of the Province under Confederation : Sir Narcisse Fortunat Belleau and Honorable René Edouard Caron.

Each of these coats of arms bears its characteristie emblem as a crest.

Sir N. F. Belleau’s escutcheon is surmounted by an owl; the motto is Je veille.

Mr. Caron’s escutcheon is surmounted by a

Heur-de-lis, and the motto is Suaviter in

modo, fortiter in re. Each escutcheon bears

a knight’s helmet,.

On the side facing St. Augustin street are similar panoplies in the piers of the first story. The one on the right of the doorway, bears the arms of Mr. Caron’s successor, Hon. Luc Letellier de St. Just, with à knight’s helmet and surmounted by a hand as a crest. The motto is Æœwc manus In the other panoply (to the left of the entrance) were carved, in 1895, the arms of Sir Adolphe Chapleau, the

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J present Lieutenant-Governor of the Pro- h “ vince of Quebec. These arms are as follows : P ‘“ Argent on a fess azure, two barrulets T

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and three lions” heads, sable, erased and si

langued gules. In surtout, the arms of the il

Province of Quebec: Or, on a fess gules W

charged with a lion passant, quardant, or, and two fleurs-de-lis azure in chief, and a sprig of three maple leaves slipped in vert.”

Motto : ‘“ Toujours pour elle.”

The escutcheon has a knight’s helmet and as a crest three maple leaves, vert. !

The arms of the Honorable Auguste Réal Angers, sixth Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Quebec under Confederation,

1. In heraldry, as every one knows, colors are indicated on stone, marble, bronze an1 wood by hatches traced according to conventional rules. Thus, red (gules) is represented by vertical lines ; blue (azure) by horizontal lines ; green (vert) by diagonal lines from right to left ; purple by diagonal lines from left to right ; black (sable) by horizontal and vertical lines crossed ; gold (or) is re- | presented by dots ; silver (argent) by the absence of ali « } hatches or incrustation (a plain ground).

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have been carved, in 1896,in one of the panoplies of the side facing St. Julia street. They are as follows : Quartered saltierwise first and fourth azure with a star, argent, second and third, or, with a rose gules slipped in vert; in surtout gules a cherub’s head winged, with the same for crest.” !

The motto is: Par droicts chemins.

The three lateral faces of which we have spoken have each a central pavilion projecting from the general line, sarmounted by an attic serving as a base for à large four-sided cupola, pierced with dormer windows on the outer side and en the side facing the yard. The transverse bays of these cupolas are flanked by chimneys whose proportions and elegant forms embellish the cupolas themselves.

The entrances of the central pavilions of the lateral faces above mentioned are ornamented with a portico of the Tonic

1. Mr. Angers’ ancestors used to sign their name ‘“ Angest”’ (little angel), hence the cherub's head in the centre of the shield.

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order with pilasters imbedded in the rustic

quoins of the ground floor. The architect

has very happily introduced national emblems in them; thus the freize of the enta-

blature of this portico is ornamented with

a Hon passant between two fleurs-de-lys and

the key of the archivolt bears three maple

leaves slipped, which make up the variou $ constituents of the arms of our Province.

The panels of the arched doors of these entrances are ornamented witt boughs and laurels.

At each angle of the square formed by the building, a pavilion, projecting centrally, supports on one side a raised roof on which are fleurs-de-lis, and, on the other side, a stone dormer artistically carved containing a monumental clock.

Escutcheons of Deschambault stone, on which the arms of the Province are carved, and surmounted by the Royal Crown, stand on the top of the dormers containing the clock-faces. Each of these escutcheons has, as supports two enormous beavers sitting

erect, which gives an original and national character to this ornamentation which is quite conformable to heraldic and classic rules.

The four pavilions at the angles of the building, each contain an entrance of limited proportions with Tonic pilasters, consols, cornice and cartouche, on which the Provincial arms are carved.

Two large arched gateways in the forefront of the side facing St. Julia street, give access to the courtyard. The panels of these gateways are ornamented with crowns of oak leaves.

The entrance in the central pavilion on Grande Allée leads to the offices of the Lieutenant-Governor and the various public departments.

At the top of the large dormer in the front of the cupola of this pavilion is a flag-staf on which the British flag is hoisted whenever the Lieutenant-Governor ofthe Proviace comes to his office, and which remains hoisted as long as Her Majesty’s representative is in the building.

For some years past, the doors of the sides facing on St. Julia and St. Augustin streets have not been used, in order to watch more strictly the entrance and departure of persons having access to the offices or other parts of the building.

The Provincial Police are charged with the guarding of the building and its approaches. They have special quarters in the basement on the side facing St. Julia street. Signals to the constables on duty are given by electric wires.

MATERIALS AND CONSTRUCTION—T'orAL CosT OF THE BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.

The Government Buildings are built of incombustible materials with the exception of the roof, whose frame-work is of wood as well as the roof itself. The latter is covered over with galvanized iron with ornaments of hammered zinc as already stated,

The green sandstone used in the basement was taken from the Levis quarries.

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came from the Deschambault quarries, that of the facing of the walls of the court-yard comes partly from a quarry at Murray Bay and partly from a quarry at Terrebonne.

The iron beams and other metal work

used in the floors and the tiles of the flooring came from Belgium.

The apparatus for heating with hot water throughout the building up to the attics

was put in by the firm of Mitchell, of Monréal.

The elevators of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly are on the Otis system, which is an ingenious application of Armstrong’s hydraulic lift.

The bell, clocks and dials in the campanile and angle pavilions were put in by Mr. Cyrille Duquet of Quebec.

It would take too long to give the names of all the artisans and workmen to whom the contractors confided the execution of the difficult portions of the work. We may, however, mention Mr. Vincent and Mr.

Cedrat, stone carvers, who, from Mr. Ta-

ché’s drawings, performed their task with remarkable success; Messrs. Gingras & Frère, who made the staircases, and Mr. A.

Barbeau who did the gavanized iron and zinc work of the roof.

The wood-carving was done by Mr. Berlinguet, jur., M. L. Moisan and Mr. J. B.

Côté.

The total cost of the Government House, that is of tae Legislative and Departmental Buildings,includingthe amounts paid forthe construction ofthe fountain and the granite wall around the grounds and the purchase of the “ cricket field,” the old skating rink and part of St. Eustache Street, the levelling and embellishing of the grounds, the cost of the statues on the main front and fountain, etc., etc., is $1,669,249.16 (one million, six hundred and sixty-nine thousand two hundred and forty-nine dollars and sixteen cents).

Two accidents have increased the cost of the building, viz : 1stly, the destruction by fire of the old Parliament Building, near

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the archbishop’s palace, which occured on the 19th April, 1883, necessitating the expense of temporary quarters in the building under construction for the following session of the Legislature ; and 2ndly, the double dynamite explosion caused by criminal hands, on the 1lth October, 1884, and which necessitated the rebuilding of a portion of the edifice.

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