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1854
The legislature acquires the King’s College building in the area of present-day Queen’s Park in 1854 as a potential site for a Canadian federal parliament building. When Queen Victoria decides in 1857 that the federal capital will be in Ottawa, the government converts the facility temporarily into an asylum.