Lighting up Centre Block is a Nelson family tradition

‘It’s a legacy project for me. I would want to do it no matter what,’ says Chris Nelson, co-owner of Etobicoke, Ont.’s Lighting Nelson & Garrett.

The Senate Chamber's massive chandeliers, each weighing 1.5 tonnes, are among the pieces that will be restored by the team at Lighting Nelson & Garrett. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

September 27, 2023

Some 500 individual light fixtures hung in Centre Block before its closure for renovations at the end of 2018, and Chris Nelson and his team have catalogued them all—from the 1.5 tonne bronze and cast-iron chandeliers that adorned the Senate Chamber, to the more mundane fi...

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