For all the years I’ve spent as a Manitoban, even living a couple of them in Winnipeg, today was the first time I set foot on the grounds of the Manitoba Legislative Building. Being privy to its interesting origins and with it basically being in my back yard, perhaps I should have visited sooner, but there was just something about a mass of people in an altered state of consciousness amidst such sacred architecture that drew me to finally check it out today.

Although I’ve yet to enter the building, even from the outside the structure is absolutely breathtaking up close, sculpted of Tyndall limestone from when the area was an inland sea, complete with traces of marine fossils. I’ll go back soon by myself and then take a deeper look with Frank Albo on his tour this summer.