Heard On The Hill

That’s some hole! Tens of thousands of truckloads of bedrock dug out from Parliament Hill to date

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The excavation work in front of the Centre Block in 2020, left, and in 2024. The hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of bedrock from the site have been trucked 25 kilometres east of Ottawa, Heard on the Hill has learned.The Hill Times photographs by Laura Ryckwaert and courtesy of PSPC

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BY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

August 11, 2025

Last week, local Ottawa artist and author Andrew King got to thinking about where all the rubble from the Centre Block construction site has gone.

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