Unveiling of Rideau Hall façade

The Mappin Wing front façade of Rideau Hall after the completion of the National Capital Commission’s conservation project.

The Mappin Wing front façade of Rideau Hall after the completion of the National Capital Commission’s conservation project.

Russell Mills, Chair of the National Capital Commission (NCC) Board of Directors, Micheline Dubé, Chief Executive Officer of the NCC, and Their Excellencies the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada, and Jean-Daniel Lafond, during the celebration marking the completion of the conservation project for the Mappin Wing front façade of Rideau Hall.

Their Excellencies the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada, and Jean-Daniel Lafond, Jerome Muller, Project Manager/Architect, Capital Planning and Real Asset Management branch for the National Capital Commission (NCC), Russell Mills, Chair of the NCC Board of Directors, Micheline Dubé, Chief Executive Officer of the NCC, and during the celebration marking the completion of the conservation project for the Mappin Wing front façade of Rideau Hall.

His Excellency Jean-Daniel Lafond, during the celebration marking the completion of the conservation project for the Mappin Wing front façade of Rideau Hall.

The conservators, masons and workers who have worked under the leadership of the National Capital Commission to complete this significant project gathered with Their Excellencies the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada, and Jean-Daniel Lafond, to recreate a modern-day version of the 1913 photograph entitled “The Workmen That Rebuilt Government House, November 1913.”