Queen
Victoria (1819-1901)
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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