Inspired by Lisa's postcards last week of state capitol buildings, I spent the weekend searching for my collection of our provincial legislative buildings. I know I don't have all 14 of them, but we'll see how interesting this is. In no particular order, here's the first I found, for Manitoba, in the capital city of Winnipeg, a neoclassical, beaux-arts building built in 1920 known colloquially as "the Leg"
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The Leg! I looked that up, and I love it can be a leg, as well as a pun on "lej" for Legislative Building! My state capitol has a golden man on top too, The Oregon Pioneer. He's a brawny woodsman with an axe and a tarp! Apparently he's going to build a shelter.
I never thought of it that way. I went on a tour once and someone said to me "how did you like the leg" (pronounced lej) and I had no idea what she was on about!
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