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Originally Posted by acottawa
I have never understood this fixation with having a building called "National Portrait Gallery," to house LAC's photo collection; to me it is just a symptom of Ottawa's massive inferiority complex.
Anyway, they are in the process of building a library to host LAC's various collections, so I think this latest quest is likely to go nowhere.
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Not sure how you get to an inferiority complex from an aspiration for a fitting home for the nation’s family album. I’ve never seen anything to suggest that the LAC expansion has implications wrt the Portrait collection.