Statue of Queen Victoria (1819-1901) (City of Ottawa, Ontario) | monument

Canada / Ontario / Ottawa / City of Ottawa, Ontario
 statue, monument
Queen Victoria chose Ottawa as Canada's capital in 1858. Nearly forty years later, a monument to Queen Victoria, intended as part of a lavish celebration of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, the sixtieth year of her reign, was proposed for the Hill.

The competition for this monument was only open to Canadian sculptors. Louis-Philippe Hébert, a sculptor from Quebec, won the contract. Before being placed on Parliament Hill, the statue was first displayed at the Universal Exposition in Paris in 1900.
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Coordinates:   45°25'27"N   75°42'4"W
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