Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1911 — MODERNIZING RIDEAU HALL [ARTICLE]

MODERNIZING RIDEAU HALL

Chapel on Government Residence Makes Way for Garage. Ottawa, Ont., Sept. 1. —The modernization of the Rldeau Hall, the official residence of the governor general, by way of preparation for the Duke of Connaught, Canada’s first royal governor, Is going on rapidly and one of the best indications of the new and brilliant regime about to be inaugurated is the fact that the chapel is being torn down and is to be replaced by a garage. The chapel was built in 1834, for Lord Lansdowne, then governor general. At present there is no garage connected with Rideau Hall, the present governor general and his predecessors having always stuck to horses, but when the government undertook the smartening up of -the official residence a little hint was received from the other side that a garage would be considered a necessity for his royal highness, the Duke of Connaught. So the chapel was torn down to make room for the garage.