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- EMBCAN_050509_03.JPG: The Canadian Embassy is proud to be the home of Haida artist Bill Reid's largest and most complex work of sculpture: a bronze-cast sculpture of a canoe containing thirteen mythological Haida figures.
Among the creatures and humans represented are the Raven, the trickster of the Northwest Coast, holding the steering oar; under his tail is the Mouse Woman, the traditional guide to travellers between the human and non-human realms of Haida myth.
In the bow is the Grizzly Bear: padding on the port side is his human wife, the Bear Mother. Between them are their children, the Two Cubs.
Behind the Bear Mother is the Beaver, an uncle of the Raven, who hoarded all the fresh water and fish in the world. Behind him is the Dogfish Woman, a shape-changing creature, part human and part shark.
Across from the Bear Mother is the Eagle. Beneath him, perched on the gunwale, is the Frog. Arched across the centre of the canoe is the Wolf, with his claws in the Beaver's back and his teeth in the Eagle's wings. Behind the shoulders of the Wolf is a human paddler whom Reid called "the Ancient Reluctant Conscript." At the centre of this menagerie stands the shaman, known in Haida as "Kilstlaai". His robe and staff, sculpture within sculpture, portray the Seabear, the Raven and the Killer Whale -- allusions to other stories central to the Haida view of the world.
The canoe contains both Raven and Eagle -- the two sides of the Haida social order; women and men, a rich man and a poorer man, animals and human beings. It is an image not only of one culture but of the entire family of living things; Not all is peace and contentment in this crowded boat, but whatever their differences, they are paddling together, in one boat, headed in one direction.
Wherever their journey takes them, let us wish them luck.
- EMBCAN_050509_18.JPG: The Canadian embassy
- Wikipedia Description: Embassy of Canada in Washington
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Embassy of Canada in Washington, D.C. (French: Ambassade du Canada à Washington) is Canada's main diplomatic mission to the United States. The embassy building is located at 501 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. between the Capitol and the White House just north of the National Gallery of Art.
The embassy had long been based in an old mansion on Embassy Row that had been purchased in 1927. This house had been built in 1909 for Clarence Moore, a financier who was killed in the sinking of the Titanic. It was at this building that the Queen of Canada, Elizabeth II, hosted a return dinner for President Dwight D. Eisenhower at the end of her state visit to the US in 1959.
Over time, the Canadian delegation outgrew this building and spread to other structures scattered throughout Washington. In the 1970s the Embassy of Canada began to search for a new home, at the same time the district government was looking to revitalize Pennsylvania Avenue. In 1978 the Government of Canada purchased a vacant lot for $5 million. The site had previously been a Ford dealership and a public library. Canada is the first, and so far only nation, to build an embassy so close to the Capitol. The two nations share a close relationship due to their cultural similarities, geographic proximity, and the volume of trade across their borders.
The new building was designed by British Columbia architect Arthur Erickson. This decision generated some controversy as Erickson was handpicked by his friend Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, but the building itself was much acclaimed. The new chancery was officially opened by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in May 1989.
The ambassador is former federal finance minister Michael Wilson. The ambassador lives in an official residence just off Embassy Row in the northwest of the city. This building was purchased in 1948 and Lester B. Pearson was the first ambassador to reside there. The embassy also owns several other residences.
There is a domed roof that is supported by the columns. If a person is standing in the center of the area under the dome, any noise they make is reflected and focused back. The magnified volume is only appreciated by the person in the centre. Persons at the perimeter do not experience the same effect.
The site is decorated with the large sculpture "Spirit of Haida Gwaii" by Bill Reid.
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