Ellen Fairclough Building (French: Édifice Ellen-Fairclough) is an 18-storey (94 m) high-rise office building built in 1981. It is the 5th tallest building in
Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Ontario. Hamilton has a 2021 Canadian census, population of 569,353 (2021), and its Census Metropolitan Area, census metropolitan area, which encompasses ...
, Canada.
It is situated on the corner of
King Street West and
MacNab Street South, and is primarily used to house provincial government offices.
The building was first known as the Convention Centre when it first opened up in 1981. One year later in 1982, it was renamed the Ellen Fairclough Building. Ellen Fairclough was a Hamiltonian and the first female member of the Canadian Cabinet.
Ellen Fairclough
Ellen Louks Fairclough (; January 28, 1905 – November 13, 2004) was a Canadian politician. A Progressive Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1950 to 1963, she was the first woman ever to serve in the Canadian Cabinet ...
served under
John Diefenbaker
John George Diefenbaker (September 18, 1895 – August 16, 1979) was the 13th prime minister of Canada, serving from 1957 to 1963. He was the only Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, Progressive Conservative party leader between 1930 an ...
for 13 years in Parliament. She advocated for
gender equality
Gender equality, also known as sexual equality, gender egalitarianism, or equality of the sexes, is the state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender, including economic participation and decision-making, an ...
and fairer
immigration
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policy. She died at 99 in 2004.
The
Hamilton Convention Centre occupies the first 3 floors of this office tower (with the exception of the Ellen Fairclough Building's lobby and the shared loading dock, both located on the ground floor), and it is attached to the
Art Gallery of Hamilton
The Art Gallery of Hamilton (AGH) is an art museum located in Hamilton, Ontario, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The museum occupies a building on King Street (Hamilton, Ontario), King Street West in downtown Hamilton, designed by Trevor P. Garwood-Jon ...
and
FirstOntario Concert Hall. There is also an enclosed pedestrian bridge that crosses over
King Street and attaches to the
Lloyd D. Jackson Square mall and the
Sheraton Hamilton hotel. The government building is also home to a courthouse and a
citizenship
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Though citizenship is often conflated with nationality in today's English-speaking world, international law does not usually use the term ''citizenship'' to refer to nationalit ...
&
immigration
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office.
Images
Image:EllenFaircloughBuilding.JPG, View from King Street West
Image:EllenFaircloughBuildingA.JPG, Ellen Fairclough Building
See also
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Hamilton Convention Centre
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List of tallest buildings in Hamilton, Ontario
This list of tallest buildings in Hamilton ranks buildings in the city by height. Hamilton, Ontario, Hamilton is the fifth-largest city in Ontario, Canada. In Hamilton, there are 21 buildings that stand taller than 75 metres (230 f ...
References
External links
Image: Ellen Fairclough Building taken from Raise the Hamme
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Buildings and structures in Hamilton, Ontario
Office buildings completed in 1981
Government buildings completed in 1981