While many libraries with specializations in all sorts of genres, from fiction to physics, exist, have you ever seen a library that specially caters to a parliament? At Ottawa’s Library of Parliament, you can see just that. The main reading room, with its vaulted ceilings and pine paneling, is covered head to toe in books, guaranteed to put a smile of the face of any bibliophile. As you admire the workings of the library, the impressive marble statue of Queen Victoria at the centre will surely catch your attention.

Not only is the library dedicated to providing a wealth of information to facilitate the process of democracy to the parliamentarians, but it also supplies information about the parliament to the citizens of Canada, so that they may be better informed. Books, CDs, you name it and it can be found at this amazing neo-Gothic structure. If you have a Canadian ten-dollar bill, peer at the obverse. Do you see something familiar? Yes, it’s the Library of Parliament, which has undeniably become a Canadian icon. So make your way to the Library of Parliament in Wellington Street for some insight into the Canadian Parliament.