The Parliament Building of Quebec is an eight-floor structure and is home to the National Assembly of Quebec, located in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The Parliament Building was designed by architect Eugène-Étienne Taché in a Second Empire style and built between 1877 and 1886, in the heart of Quebec's Parliament Hill. The National Assembly first met there on March 27, 1884, even as the building was fully completed only two years later, on April 8, 1886.

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The eight-storey Parliament building is symmetrical and is composed of three parts — two side wings each with a small tower, one consecrated to Samuel de Champlain, explorer and founder of Quebec, and the other to Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, founder of Montreal; and a 52-metre-tower is placed between these two wings, which, in its turn, is named after Jacques Cartier, who made first contact between the French and what is now Canada. The concept of decorations as thought by Eugène-Étienne Taché was to show an open history of Quebec on the wall of parliament, including statues and the heraldry.[youtube]3UF_J_rXl1w[/youtube]

The front wall of the parliament building has houses a total of 26 statues, which were ordered in 1886 and delivered in 1894 from Louis-Philippe Hébert and eight other sculptors, all from Paris. Two of the statues represent allegorical themes (Religion and Country and History and Poetry) and are located on either side of the tower; another two represent the indigenous people of Quebec (in this case, the Abenaki), while the rest honors important people in the history of Québec. Most of them are located in the niches in the National Assembly's wall.


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