Thomas McKay (1838), The Crown in Right of Canada (1865, 1872, 1899, 1906, 1914, 1925, 2004)
Owner
The King in Right of Canada[citation needed]
Landlord
National Capital Commission
Technical details
Size
9,500 m2 (102,000 sq ft)
Design and construction
Architect(s)
Thomas McKay, David Ewart, etc.
Other information
Number of rooms
≈ 175
National Historic Site of Canada
Designated
1977
Rideau Hall (officially Government House) is the official residence in Ottawa of both the governor general of Canada and the Canadian monarch.[1][2] It stands in Canada's capital on a 36-hectare (88-acre) estate at 1 Sussex Drive, with the main building consisting of approximately 175 rooms across 9,500 square metres (102,000 sq ft), and 27 outbuildings around the grounds. Rideau Hall's site lies outside the centre of Ottawa.[3] It is one of two official vice-regal residences[4] maintained by the federal Crown, the other being the Citadelle of Quebec.
Most of Rideau Hall is used for state affairs, only 500 square metres (5,400 sq ft) of its area being dedicated to private living quarters, while additional areas serve as the offices of the Canadian Heraldic Authority[5] and the principal workplace of the governor general and their staff; either the term Rideau Hall, as a metonym, or the formal idiom Government House is employed to refer to this bureaucratic branch. Officially received at the palace are foreign heads of state, both incoming and outgoing ambassadors and high commissioners to Canada, and Canadian Crown ministers for audiences with either the viceroy or the sovereign, should the latter be in residence. Rideau Hall is likewise the location of many Canadian award presentations and investitures, where prime ministers and other members of the federal Cabinet are sworn in, and where federal writs of election are "dropped", among other ceremonial and constitutional functions.
Rideau Hall and the surrounding grounds were designated as a National Historic Site of Canada in 1977.[6][7] The house is open to the public for guided tours throughout the year; approximately 200,000 visitors tour Rideau Hall annually.[8] Since 1934, the Federal District Commission (now the National Capital Commission) has managed the grounds.[9][10]
^"Rideau Hall". National Capital Commission. Government of Canada. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
^"Federal Heritage Buildings: Rideau Hall : Complex as a whole". Parks Canada. Government of Canada. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
^Aimers, John (April 1996). "The Palace on the Rideau". Monarchy Canada (Spring 1996). Toronto: Monarchist League of Canada. Archived from the original on 31 January 2009. Retrieved 20 February 2009.
^"Rideau Hall : Complex as a whole". Federal Heritage Buildings. Parks Canada.
^"Canadian Heraldic Authority". 6 March 2017. Archived from the original on 19 November 2018. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
^Rideau Hall and Landscaped Grounds National Historic Site of Canada. Directory of Federal Heritage Designations. Parks Canada.
^Rideau Hall and Landscaped Grounds National Historic Site of Canada. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
^Office of the Governor General of Canada. "Rideau Hall". Queen's Printer for Canada. Archived from the original on 20 December 2007. Retrieved 20 February 2009.
^Hucker, Jacqueline (4 March 2015). "Rideau Hall". The Canadian Encyclopedia (online ed.). Historica Canada. Archived from the original on 18 November 2018. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
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