This article is part of a series about the Senate of Canada’s move to the Senate of Canada Building, formerly known as the Government Conference Centre. In 2018, the Senate began to move into the building, a former train station built in 1912, while Parliament’s Centre Block — the Senate’s permanent home — is rehabilitated. The Senate will begin operating from the Senate of Canada Building in early 2019. 

The savings to taxpayers will be approximately $200 million compared to the original proposal to find an alternative location on Parliament Hill. The Senate is expected to occupy its temporary location for at least 10 years.

An under-used Government of Canada conference centre in downtown Ottawa has been a hive of activity since 2014 as construction workers ready it to become the temporary home of the Senate of Canada. In the fall of 2018, the Senate will move into a refurbished Government Conference Centre while a sweeping rehabilitation of Parliament’s Centre Block gets underway.

Here are some major construction milestones: