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1902
Queen Victoria, Britain’s second-longest reigning monarch and the namesake of Queen’s Park (the location of Ontario’s Legislative Building), passed away on January 22nd, 1901. To commemorate her passing, the Ontario Government purchases a statue of Her Majesty that is unveiled on the Legislature’s grounds in 1902.