“ 'Rich by nature poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door. ”
The father of confederation is deadlock.
~ Goldwin Smith
Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.
Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.
