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Hands down, the Pearson Government was the greatest Canada has ever seen!
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He brought nukes into Canada at the request of the Americans! Dief lost the election over the issue of stationing defensive nuclear missiles in Ontario and Quebec - he waffled on the question and got booted.
Pearson was sweet-talked by the American president to station them here. His wife had to resign from an anti-nuclear women's group over it.
Not that that makes him a bad prime minister, rather, I'm just always surprised to learn how few people recognize this fact. Even if you support the idea of unified defense, the optics were terrible.
OK - buildings:
That Holland/Wellington building is great. Huge windows, brick construction, curves at the corner. Gorgeous. Too bad they didn't build more on a lot more street corners.
The Brooke Claxton building is great (the only one fitting that bill at Tunney's), but it isn't Brutalism. As the first big building at Tunney's, it was designed and constructed at the very tail end of the mid-century modernist era (I think 1964-65). Brutalism didn't really rear its ugly head until the very late 60s, when there was an expansion of the civil service (and they had to look cheap to satisfy the voters).
It's being torn down now, but I always thought the John Carling building on the bluff overlooking Dow's Lake was a good-looking building (though shoddily-built, I hear). It opened in 1967 and sort of bridged the gap between mid-century modern and Brutalism.
Up close, it was an interesting building.
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