Lord Elgin Hotel - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - Flags of the World on Waymarking.com

The Lord Elgin Hotel was opened during the Second World War. The hotel was "a showpiece of collaboration amongst the federal government, the City of Ottawa and various private sector partners..."

The hotel and the street were named after Lord Elgin who was a governor-general of the province of Canada before confederation. The hotel maintains relationships with that Lord Elgin's descendants in Scotland.

In addition to the national flags of Canada and the United Kingdom, flags of the Canadian provinces and territories adorn the hotel's east face. Viewing from south to north, the flags approximate the order of entry in confederation: Ontario, Québec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Manitoba, British Columbia, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut. Standing in the median of Elgin Street, a very careful photographer might be able to capture a single image of all fifteen qualifying flags.

There are pairings on the outer walls (the walls nearest the street) of a flag of Canada and a flag of Ontario. Flags for the rest of the provinces and territories hang on the walls between the separated outer walls. Those wall flags are relatively recent. Since 1941, there has always been two flagpoles over the main entrance. In 2017, the two flagpoles host the Canadian and British flags. The hotel was originally built for the American Ford Hotels chain. The stars and stripes once flew above the main entrance.

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