{"id":95396,"date":"2017-10-11T18:42:48","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T18:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/construction-begins-to-add-nunavut-to-centennial-flame.html"},"modified":"2017-10-11T18:42:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T18:42:48","slug":"construction-begins-to-add-nunavut-to-centennial-flame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/construction-begins-to-add-nunavut-to-centennial-flame.html","title":{"rendered":"Construction begins to add Nunavut to Centennial Flame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nunavut\u00a0joined the Canadian federation\u00a0nearly two decades ago, but it&#8217;s\u00a0only now taking its place among the other territories and provinces surrounding\u00a0the Centennial Flame on Parliament Hill.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Centennial Flame monument to get facelift with Nunavut images<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s no small job: the 12-sided stone fountain at the foot of the walkway leading to the Peace Tower will have to be dismantled and reconstructed to add a 13th\u00a0side and a new brass shield bearing Nunavut&#8217;s\u00a0coat of arms. Nunavut&#8217;s official flower, the purple saxifrage, and 1999, the year it became a territory, will be engraved on the basin.<\/p>\n<p>The monument,\u00a0a popular backdrop\u00a0for tourist photos, was fenced off Tuesday in preparation for the project. The flame at its centre has been extinguished.<\/p>\n<p>The Centennial Flame was first lit\u00a0for Canada&#8217;s centennial celebrations in 1967, 32 years before Nunavut became the third territory.<\/p>\n<p>CBC News learned this spring of the plan to adapt the monument to add Nunavut.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Canadian Heritage confirmed Wednesday the monument will be under construction throughout most of the fall, with completion expected in December.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.4349367.1507732801!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.JPG_gen\/derivatives\/original_620\/parliament-hill-centennial-flame-construction-nunavut.JPG\" alt=\"parliament hill centennial flame construction nunavut\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"figure-caption\">The Centennial Flame was fenced off and partially dismantled Tuesday. (Andrew Foote\/CBC)<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.4349891.1507745775!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_620\/centennial-flame-parliament-hill-construction-ottawa.jpg\" alt=\"centennial flame parliament hill construction ottawa\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"figure-caption\">By Wednesday, the fencing had expanded and large purple construction hoarding had been set up around the flame. (CBC)<\/p><\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/parliament-hill-centennial-flame-nunavut-1.4349300?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nunavut\u00a0joined the Canadian federation\u00a0nearly two decades ago, but it&#8217;s\u00a0only now taking its place among the other territories and provinces surrounding\u00a0the Centennial Flame on Parliament Hill. Centennial Flame monument to get facelift with Nunavut images It&#8217;s no small job: the 12-sided stone fountain at the foot of the walkway leading to the Peace Tower will have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-95396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}