<Tr> <Th> Official name </Th> <Td> Grounds of the Parliament Buildings National Historic Site of Canada </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Designated </Th> <Td> 1976 </Td> </Tr> <P> Parliament Hill (French: Colline du Parlement), colloquially known as The Hill, is an area of Crown land on the southern banks of the Ottawa River in downtown Ottawa, Ontario, Canada . Its Gothic revival suite of buildings is the home of the Parliament of Canada and has architectural elements of national symbolic importance . Parliament Hill attracts approximately 3 million visitors each year . Law enforcement on parliament hill and in the parliamentary precinct is the responsibility of the Parliamentary Protective Service (PPS). </P> <P> Originally the site of a military base in the 18th and early 19th centuries, development of the area into a governmental precinct began in 1859, after Queen Victoria chose Ottawa as the capital of the Province of Canada . Following a number of extensions to the parliament and departmental buildings and a fire in 1916 that destroyed the Centre Block, Parliament Hill took on its present form with the completion of the Peace Tower in 1927 . Since 2002, an extensive $1 billion renovation and rehabilitation project has been underway throughout all of the precinct's buildings; work is not expected to be complete until after 2020 . </P>

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