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Your Capital SECTION B Citizens Elect Different People from Their Communities to Different Levels of Government to Make Laws ESL Resource Book-EN fonts 3/13/09 1:52 PM Page 36 Your Capital SECTION B Citizens elect different people from their communities to different levels of government to make laws . ese lawmakers, or politicians, meet regularly to talk about curren t laws and to make new ones. ey do this in a place called the capital . Ottawa, the nationa l capital of Canada, is where federal politicians meet. WHAT ABOUT ME? Sometimes, in newspapers or on television news programs, people will say things like: “Ottawa sends soldiers” or “Ottawa makes TALK ABOUT IT! a decision.” Of course, they do not mean the All Canadian provinces and territories have city of Ottawa; they mean the Government capitals. Can you name them? (See answers of Canada. Ottawa is the country’s capital. below.) What is the capital of your province It is your capital. Look in a newspaper and or territory? Is it the biggest city? notice how the word Ottawa is used. Is the article talking about something that affects you or your family? e s r o h e t i h W y r o t i r r e T n o k u DID YOU KNOW? Y a n i g e R n a w e h c t a k s a The name Ottawa (or adawe in Algonquin) means S y t i C c e b e u Q c e b e u to trade and was the name given to the First Nations Q n w o t e t t o l r a h C d n a l s I d r a w d E e c n i r people who controlled trade along the river. P o t n o r o T o i r a t n O t i u l a q I t u v a n u N x a f i l a H a i t o c S a v o N e f i n k w o l l e Y s e i r o t i r r e T t s e w h t r o N There is always something going on at the s ’ n h o J . t S r o d a r b a L & d n a l d n u o f w e N Parliament Buildings, even when the Senate and n o t c i r e d e r F k c i w s n u r B w e N g e p i n n i W a b o t i n a M the House of Commons are not sitting . a i r o t c i V a i b m u l o C h s i t i r B Meetings, committees , o5cial visits and receptions n o t n o m d E a t r e b l A occur every day, and the work of researchers is constant. L A T I P A C Y R O T I R R E T T E C N I V O R P About 3,756 people work here! 36 SECTION 5 Your Capital ESL Resource Book-EN fonts 3/13/09 1:53 PM Page 37 g n e h C e n o M – Why Ottawa? WORD BUILDER R t Some words have two On the Hill n e m a i Choosing a capital parts, like lawmaker (law + maker). Can e busiest part of downtown Ottawa is l r a P f city is not easy! you think of other words that use the word Parliament Hill. is is where Senators and o y r a r b Should it be in the law or maker ? Members of Parliament have their offices, i L centre of the country? Should it be the e word capital comes from the Latin meet to mak e laws, and have meetings biggest city? Who decides where a capital word caput , which means head . Capital with advisors and citizens. Parliament Hill should b e? has many different meanings: very serious is a gathering place for Canadians who go In 1857, there were a few cities com - (capital punishment); money (capital in - there for a variety of reasons: to celebrate, peting to be the capital city. To settle it, vestment); and very important (capital to protest, to go on tours and to enjoy the Queen Victoria chose Ottawa be cause it letter, capital city). Here are some other beautiful scenery. e Hill is on high was centrally located between the cities of words that come from this same root: to ground next to the Ottawa River. If you Montreal and Toronto, and was along the cap something; a baseball or bottle cap; look across the water, you can see the border of Ontario and Quebec (the centre captain; caption. province of Quebec. Government offices of Canada at the time). It was also far from e English word citizen comes from the and national institutions are located on the American border, making it safer from Latin word civis , which means a person both sides of the river. attacks. who lives in a city . Other words in this group include city , civic or civilian . Can The Parliament you think of other terms that mean the Buildings same thing as citizen ? Parliament has three main buildings: the East Block, the West Block and the Centre Block . e Centre Block you see today is not the first — the first Centre Block of ORIGINAL CENTRE BLOCK the Parliament Buildings burned down Before and after the fire of 1916. in 1916. e only part of the Centre Block to survive was the Library of Par - liament, which had fire-proof iron doors. e East and West Blocks were untouched by the fire. 37 ESL Resource Book-EN fonts 3/13/09 1:53 PM Page 38 LIBRARY OF PARLIAMENT • the research centre for 11 parliamentarians and their sta6 • over 600,000 items in the collection • over 350 people work for the Library of Parliament • statue of a young Queen Victoria 4 AERIAL VIEW OF PARLIAMENT HILL 1 Centre Block 7 Victoria Building 2 East Block 8 National Press Building 3 West Block 9 The Rideau Canal and Locks 4 Library of Parliament 10 Centennial Flame 5 National War Memorial 11 Statues 6 Langevin Building 1 10 38 ESL Resource Book-EN fonts 3/13/09 1:53 PM Page 39 9 5 6 7 8 2 10 3 11 11 9 11 11 11 1 11 11 11 11 11 4 n e z i t i C a w a t t O , o t 11 t e c c o r r a C e k i M SECTION 5 Your Capital 39 ESL Resource Book-EN fonts 3/13/09 1:53 PM Page 40 1 5 1 8 7 6 6 4 3 DID YOU KNOW? R The di4erence between gargoyles and grotesques is that gargoyles are 2 usually waterspouts, while grotesques are fanciful and 3 playful carvings. The word gargoyle comes from the French word gargouille, which means throat or pipe . 40 7 ESL Resource Book-EN fonts 3/13/09 1:53 PM Page 41 7 2 Joshua VICTORIA TOWER BELL Sherurci • bell from the original Centre Block tower • cast in 1875, installed in 1877 • fell from the tower in the 1916 fire • restored in 1998 and on display on Parliament Hill THE CENTRE BLOCK 1 Peace Tower — 92.2 metres high! 2 the carillon — 53 bells! 3 grotesques — these mythical creatures are Library of Parliament – Malak fanciful and playful carvings 4 observation deck — visitors can look over all of Ottawa and Gatineau from here 5 the flag — the new national flag of Canada with the red maple leaf was first flown in 1965 3 6 Centre Block o5ces — lots of politicians have their o5ces here 7 Memorial Chamber — names of those who died serving in conflicts that Canada participated in are honoured in Books of Remembrance 8 Library of Parliament — opened in 1876 3 SECTION 5 Your Capital 41.
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