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CANADIAN VICE REGAL RESIDENCES
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The official vice-regal residences of the Lieutenant Governors of Canada's ten provinces. Only some are residences today, the rest are offices and museums or are no longer standing.
 PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND Government House was built in 1834 and was intended to serve as a Vice-Regal residence for the Lieutenant Governors of the then British colony of Prince Edward Island.  NOVA SCOTIA Built for Governor Sir John and Lady Francis Wentworth between 1799 and 1805, Government House is one of the oldest official residences in Canada.
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 NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR Work on the handsome, if plain Georgian mansion began in 1827 and it was finished in 1831.
 SASKATCHEWAN This was the official residence of the Lieutenant Governor of the NorthWest Territories from 1891 to 1905 and the Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan from 1905 to 1945. |
 QUEBEC Know as Spencer Wood, the former home of Quebec Lieutenant-Governors was located at the Bois-de-Coulonge park. It was purchased by the Quebec Government in 1870 and served as the residence of the Lieutenant-Governor until 1966 when a major fire destroyed the main residence."
 NEW BRUNSWICK Built between 1826 and 1828, Old Government House has been renovated and is now the home and official office for New Brunswick's Lieutenant-Governor.
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 MANITOBA Built by the Dominion Government in 1883, the stately three-storey mansion is the fourth oldest Lieutenant Governor’s residence in Canada.
 BRITISH COLUMBIA This is the fourth vice regal residence to be built on this site, the three previous being destroyed by fire. Government House was officially opened on May 19, 1959.
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 ONTARIO Known as Chorley Park, it was built between 1911 & 1915 for over a million dollars it was demolished in 1937, leaving a suite in Queen's Park as the official residence.
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 ALBERTA The three storey sandstone edifice was officially opened October 7, 1913. Government House was closed in 1938, and Alberta's Lieutenant-Governors had to seek accommodation elsewhere. In 1966, the provincial government acquired a new official residence for the Lieutenant-Governor in Edmonton.
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