The Victoria Building is an office building at 140 Wellington Street

Wellington Street (Ottawa)

Wellington Street is an important street in Ottawa, Canada most notable for being one of the first two streets laid out in Bytown in 1826 Wellington Street (French: Rue Wellington) is an important street in Ottawa, Canada most notable for being one of the first two streets laid out in Bytown in...

, just across from the Parliament of Canada

Parliament of Canada

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. It houses the offices of a number of parliamentarians, mostly members of the Canadian Senate

Canadian Senate

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. The building, designed by John Albert Ewart

John Albert Ewart

John Albert Ewart was a Canadian architect was an Ottawa architect and son of Chief Dominion Architect David Ewart.Ewart studied architecture at the University of Toronto in the 1890s and moved to Ottawa to practice with King Arnoldi in 1895 and Burritt & Meredith in 1904.Ewart died in 1964.List...

, was completed in 1928 by private developers, though the federal government quickly leased much of it. It has held a wide variety of tenants. It was the first home of the Embassy of France and the Bank of Canada

Bank of Canada

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 from 1935-1938. From 1938 to 1964 it housed the CBC

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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 and for a time was also the home of Ashbury College

Ashbury College

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. The federal government took over the building in 1973 and in 2003 it was renovated.