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1500 Bronson Avenue, (formerly the CBC Building, and the Edward Drake Building) is a
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, owned by Public Services and Procurement Canada. It was designed by CBC's chief architect David Gordon McKinstry and constructed between 1961 and 1964. It originally served as the headquarters of the
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, but significant CBC budget cutbacks in the 1990s led to the relocation of the head office staff in 1997. The building was later occupied by the
Communications Security Establishment The Communications Security Establishment (CSE; , ''CST''), formerly (from 2008-2014) called the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC), is the Government of Canada's national cryptologic agency. It is responsible for foreign signal ...
(CSE) and was renamed in honour of Lt. Colonel Edward Drake, the first director of its predecessor organisation, the Communications Branch of the National Research Council. The Communications Security Agency moved out of the building from 2014 to 2015, after their new facility was completed in Ottawa's east end. This new CSE campus was then officially named the Edward Drake Building, taking the name from their former location. 1500 Bronson Avenue occupies a large site bordered by Riverside Drive, Heron Road and
Bronson Avenue Bronson Avenue ( Ottawa Road #79) is a major north-south arterial road in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It starts at the south end as a continuation of the Airport Parkway, which is an expressway to the Macdonald-Cartier International Airport. It c ...
. For more than four decades, it has been a landmark in south Ottawa as it is set apart from any other buildings, and it was particularly known for the large CBC/Radio Canada logo on one wing of the building (since removed). It has been designated as a "classified federal heritage building," which means that it is a federal government building that has been assigned the highest level of heritage protection.


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Victoria Building (Ottawa) The Victoria Building is an Art Deco office building in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located at 140 Wellington Street, just across from the Parliament of Canada. It houses the offices of a number of parliamentarians, mostly members of the Sena ...
- CBC Head Office 1938-1964 *
CBC Ottawa Broadcast Centre The CBC Ottawa Production Centre is an office and studio complex the serves as the headquarters of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It is located on Queen Street (Ottawa), Queen Street in the Downtown Ottawa, downtown core of Ottawa, Onta ...
- CBC Head Office since 2004


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Ottawa Regional Society of Architects - Edward Drake BuildingHistoric Places of Canada - Edward Drake BuildingTreasury Board of Canada Inventory - Edward Drake Building
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