2-996-071 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Parliament Buildings, Quebec, the official residence of the Prince of Wales during his stay in Quebec, [Canada], 1860. 'The Prince of Wales [future King Edward VII], according to the programme issued of his Royal Highness's movements, was to arrive at Quebec on the 18th inst., taking up his official abode at the Parliament Buildings, where he would receive deputations and hold levees during his stay at Quebec. The Parliament Houses provided accommodation for thirty, exclusive of servants. Two separate dining-rooms, one capable of dining twenty-five, and the other fifty persons, were prepared. There were also proper offices for the Lord Chamberlain. The engraving is from a drawing recently taken by G. H. Andrews, our Special Artist...The Isle of Orleans, shown in the distance, is in the St. Lawrence River, and is about twenty miles in length, and six miles at its greatest breadth'. From "Illustrated London News", 1860.