BC

http://www.well.com/user/wolfy/Victoria/0904/Web/0105-2004-0904-1812.jpg

Alberta

http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/govrel/images/Alberta_Legislature_At_Dawn_WS.jpg

Saskatchewan

http://www.canada.worldweb.com/PhotoImages/Canada/371051.jpg


Manitoba

http://www.canada.worldweb.com/PhotoImages/Canada/371043.jpg

Ontario

http://www.specque.qc.ca/2004/Queens-Park.gif

Quebec

http://www.northrup.org/Photos/Quebec/low/government-building%5B1%5D.jpg

Newfoundland

http://www.bitstop.ca/pictures/st_johns/confed.jpg

NB

http://www.foundlocally.com/Fredericton/Images/LegislativeBuilding-7.jpg

Nova Scotia

????

PEI

http://cac.mcgill.ca/cac/bland/building/pictures/full/26-28.jpg

Ottawa

http://www.discoverholidays.ca/images/tour/on-parliament_hill_ottawa.jpg

http://www.pc.gc.ca/culture/proj/rec/Photos/RNH-ROH09-01.jpg

Newfoundland and PEI look really bad.

Ottawa

http://www.globalphotos.org/ottawa/20050703/RIMG0790.jpg

http://www.globalphotos.org/ottawa/20050702/RIMG0540.jpg

http://www.globalphotos.org/ottawa/20050703/RIMG0820.jpg

http://www.globalphotos.org/ottawa/20050703/RIMG0850.jpg

I've always wondered, why is the main building of the Ontario Government so small? I like the parliament buildings in Ottawa most.

is the PEI one just a house?

PEI

http://cac.mcgill.ca/cac/bland/building/pictures/full/26-28.jpg



^This is actually the Government House, residence of the lieutenant governor of PEI. The place where PEI Legislative Assembly convenes is Province House, also venue of the Charlottetown Conference.

http://www.gov.pe.ca/photos/500x375/province_house.jpg

i vote for Quebec, and i wouldn't consider ontario's parliament small.

http://www.wruservices.co.uk/images/Queens-park-toronto.jpg

Quebec's National Assembly
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a1/Assemblee_Nationale_du_Quebec_la_nuit.jpg
http://www.greatquestions.com/e/images/tt/q2/q2_biss_2_natassem.jpg

"I've always wondered, why is the main building of the Ontario Government so small? "


Well, first of all...it's not that small....That romanesque style of architecture tends to distort the scale.

And of course, the whole Queen's Park complex is like 3 million square feet. In the city alone, the province occupies over 12 1/2 million square feet...in just the downtown core, it occupies 7 1/2 million square feet ( 5.7 million square feet of just office space).

The Ontario legislature is a completely decadent Romanesque building...far more impressive than Toronto's old city hall building (which is no slouch either). Interestingly enough, E.J. Lennox designed both the old city hall and the 1910 west wing of the Ont legislature building (which was destroyed by a fire).

It's also been immortalized on a Rush album cover....


http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/1470/rushmovingf8oc.jpg (http://imageshack.us)






KGB

Wow, Alberta's is really nice, I was pleasently surprised. Before I saw the post about the PEI change, I was gonna say,didn't the Fresh Prince of Bel Air live in that house? Newfoundland's just looks like an oversize school, awful.

Hmm yes, they chose the design of a man from Buffalo...pftt. I do realize there are the other buildings though. I do like that building just east of Queen's Park though, the one with the canons (in the Whitney block?), although it doesn't really look 'parliamentary'.

I would have to vote for Manitoba’s government building.
It is by far the most interesting.
The building is actually a Freemasons temple.

http://www.fathers.ca/manitoba's_government_cult.htm

The first picture doesn't really show Saskatchewan's legislative building, so here are some extra pics:

http://www2.mh.is/~kentb/P7304814.jpg

http://www.usask.ca/communications/ocn/03-apr-18/images/legislature.jpg

http://www.saskschools.ca/~gregory/sask/regina/wascana.jpg

I like Newfoundland's, it's a very "powerful" looking building. They just need to get rid of the green parts and clean it up a bit.
The Parliament buildings in Ottawa are my favourite, with Alberta coming in second.

I really like Manitoba's

Newfoundland's Confederation Building is unlike any of the others. (It was built in 1959 to replace the older & smaller Colonial Building constructed in 1850.)
It is sited very nicely overlooking the city, and is connected to a newer office structure.
http://www.pbase.com/joecanada/image/37400764/large.jpg
The original Nfld. Legislature, the Colonial Building:
http://www.pbase.com/joecanada/image/37307372/large.jpg

Quebec National Assembly

credit: Po Y

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/5732/27813986f2d1bc3374b1tc.jpg

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/4537/27814322415bbe11f8b9hf.jpg

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/6176/27814497dcc0390866b5fx.jpg

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/573/27814560052ecb41c0b6qa.jpg

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/4563/2781473462f489508ab7pl.jpg

See also:

La Belle Province Foto Series

Montréal - Photos (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=241171)
Ville de Québec - Chateau Frontenac & La Citadelle - Fotos (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=242155)
Ville de Québec - Vieux Québec 1 (Day) - Fotos (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=242469)
Ville de Québec - Vieux Québec (Night) - Fotos (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=248921)

More of Alberta's awesome legislature:

***http://www.ee.ualberta.ca/~doucette/photos/GreatShots/GreatShots-06.jpg***
***http://www.ee.ualberta.ca/~doucette/photos/GreatShots/GreatShots-07.jpg***

http://www.canadian-rockies-tours.com/albums/Edmonton-Alberta-Canada/Alberta_Legislature_Building_Edmonton_sized.jpg
http://www.imagesab.com/img/gallery/peterCarroll/AlbertaLegislature.jpg

EDIT: Woops, they were pretty large, I'll just put the links...

Nova Scotia Legislature (Province House, 1811-1819):
http://members.shaw.ca/jdkeller/halifax/images/_DSC00124.jpg

BC and Quebec are by far the best of the Provinces.

Ill add some pics of the spectaular location of the British Columbian Parlement.

http://www.well.com/user/wolfy/Victoria/0905/Web/0188-2004-0905-0936.jpg
http://www.globalphotos.org/victoria/20040905/DSCN1949.jpg
http://m.quint.free.fr/Victoria/InnerHarbourG.jpg

Victoria Symphony Splash 2005
http://www.victorialodging.com/images/victoria-symphony-spalsh-lge3-560.jpg
http://www.victorialodging.com/images/victoria-symphony-spalsh-bc-legislature-2-560.jpg

I'm going to have to go with Quebec's.

Nothing will beat the Parliament building, I absolutely love the architecture. In terms of provincial buildings, B.C. & Quebec have great buildings.
I'm actually surprised how almost all of the provinces have very impressive provincial buildings, especially in Western Canada.

Ottawa's looks the best. Québec and Ontario's buildings are quite nice too though. The Western provinces and NB's look quite similar. Newfoundland doesn't look like a provincial legislative building at all. How do the Yukon, Nunavut and NWT buildings look?

This is Nunavut's I think:

http://www.gov.nu.ca/Nunavut/English/phone/leg.jpg

NWT:

http://www.bulkleyvalley.com/bvnordic/Racers/Yellowknife/originalpics/legislature.jpg

http://www.assembly.gov.nt.ca/VisitorInfo/NWTStyleOfGovernment/images/building-big.jpg

sorry I couldn't find a picture of the entire finished building.

and I could only find a picture of the interior of the Yukon's legislature:

http://www.yeupsac.com/images/LegProtest.jpg


pics up north are hard to come by :(

Wow, that NWT one looks quite massive from above.

Wow, great thread, i've always thought Maitoba's Legislature was one of the best looking building in Canada:

http://static.flickr.com/15/21207219_45e03eb041.jpg?v=0

http://static.flickr.com/15/21207217_8338d64671.jpg?v=0

http://static.flickr.com/16/21207218_7a64550ee2.jpg?v=0

http://static.flickr.com/33/38072303_1eb11bb507.jpg?v=0

http://static.flickr.com/21/38070789_349320c363.jpg?v=0

http://static.flickr.com/32/42501673_a75e9cf0ee.jpg?v=0

http://static.flickr.com/25/42504170_85b67f961e.jpg?v=0

here are a few of NWT leg. from pbase.
http://mk29.image.pbase.com/u11/suncatcher/large/42753408.F1000033.jpg
http://i.pbase.com/u11/suncatcher/large/42753409.legislativebldg001.jpg
http://i.pbase.com/u11/suncatcher/large/42753410.legislativebldg002.jpg
http://i.pbase.com/u11/suncatcher/large/42754836.LEG001.jpg

^ I cant see the pics.

Here are some I found.
http://www.assembly.gov.nt.ca/VisitorInfo/ImageGallery/VirtualTour/images/29.jpg
http://www.assembly.gov.nt.ca/VisitorInfo/ImageGallery/VirtualTour/images/30.jpg
http://www.assembly.gov.nt.ca/VisitorInfo/ImageGallery/VirtualTour/images/03.jpg

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/7313/yk37ge.jpg
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/581/yk26zg.jpg
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/610/yk10kc.jpg

It is true that Ontario's legislature is larger than it looks. BC's legislature is also smaller than it looks, though it is an attractive building.

Province House in Halifax is the smallest legislature in the country but it was built back when most of the other capitals didn't even exist yet. It is most likely the highest-quality building from that era in the country, but the grounds could be in better shape. The South side (Joseph Howe statue) has been kept nicely but the North side and the front of the building are parking:
http://www.mrfs.net/trips/2004/Maritimes/Halifax/province_house.jpg

The ones in Quebec and west are all actually quite great looking buildings. Quebec City, Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina, Edmonton and Victoria are all lucky. I have seen the 3 maritime capitals as well and they are all on such a smaller scale when compared with the others. I have never seen the one in St Johns or the 3 territories, but I do think the one in Yellowknife looks kinda cool as its like an igloo in a way (it is up in the north mind you). But in the end Ottawa and Parliament Hill win hands down. No provincial building is even close in my books.

BC's legislature looks small!? What?! I saw a program on the building of it, and it said the man who designed and watched over its construction stole some things from it, like a fireplace.

Gotta go with Parliament Hill...

Saskatchewans parliament would be my second vote... a very beautiful building.

The one in Iqaluit looks pretty cool!

i gonna go with New Brunswick's in Fredericton .... mostly because i miss it and it is in my hometown :p

http://www.pbase.com/mlberube/fredericton

this is after Ottawa of course...

None is as beautiful as the building where our representatives sit to legislate and debate the future of our glorious federation. None beat Parliament Hill in the nation's capital.

my vote was for the manitoba ledgislative building
http://www2.mh.is/~kentb/P7114483.jpg

inside looking up at the dome
http://www.pe.retsd.mb.ca/projects/wofw/images/dome.jpg

http://thumb.shutterstock.com/photos/display_pic_with_logo/1188/1188,1101255071,1.jpg

http://www.gov.mb.ca/renovations/interior_tour/images/Mvc-402f.jpg

for more images of the interior of the manitoba ledgislative building go to this site http://www.gov.mb.ca/renovations/interior_tour/interior_01.html

And here is a thread all about the Saskatchewan building ;) (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=255505)

BC,
difficult one, cose top 5 choices are all brilliant, and I like them all...

Definatly Saskatchewan!

http://www.saskfilm.com/databasedfiles/saskfilm-1009-ViewNew46/Reg.-Leg.-9.jpg

http://www.saskfilm.com/databasedfiles/saskfilm-1009-ViewNew92/cp06.jpg

http://www.saskfilm.com/databasedfiles/saskfilm-1009-ViewNew93/cp16.jpg


http://capsle.ca/images/reg_legislature_night.jpg

http://www.saskatchewancentennial.com/stories/files/FUL/Sask.%20Leg.%20Bldg%20Dec%203,%202004.jpg

http://www2.mh.is/~kentb/P7304814.jpg

http://www.legassembly.sk.ca/images/building/chamber%20doors.JPG

:cheers:

I think they all look great.

I've only seen one and that was the one in Victoria BC and that is awesome.

Canada can be very proud of it's parliamentry buildings / seats of Government.