Canada Guide
Manitoba and Saskatchewan
Legislative Building
Address: West side of Wascana Lake
Opening time: Daily late May to Sept 8am–9pm; rest of year 8am–5pm; tours every 30min
Price: Free
The grand Legislative Building is a self-confident cross-shaped structure of Manitoba limestone with an impressive domed tower at its centre. Guided tours take in the oak-and-marble-panelled Legislative Chamber and six small art galleries, the best of which houses Edmund Morris's portraits of local Indian leaders, presented to the province in 1911. A neighbouring corridor is occupied by the paintings of the Native Heritage Foundation, some thirty canvases featuring the work of contemporary Métis and native artists, notably Allen Sapp from North Battleford, who has won some international acclaim for his softly coloured studies of life on Saskatchewan's Indian reserves as he remembers them from the 1930s.