Canada House, located on Trafalgar Square in Central London, has been Canada’s diplomatic home since 1925. In addition, the Big Brother Canada Side Show premieres Friday, March 4 at 7 p.m. PT/10 p.m. ET on Slice, with season-three winner Sarah Hanlon and season-one houseguest Peter Brown joining host Arisa Cox to analyze what went down inside the house each week.
He was acknowledged by the Honourable Peter Goldring, MP for Edmonton East, as an extraordinary craftsperson” and an accomplished master builder with a social conscience.” That same day, Mike received a special award from the Government of Nova Scotia for ads he shot to promote the first ever Skilled Trades Day in Canada.
The recent sale of embassies, such as Wetherell’s sale of the former Brazilian Embassy on Green Street for £40-million, has heightened awareness in the diplomatic community that the missions are sitting on a property goldmine,” said Peter Wetherell, managing director of Wetherell, as part of the report back in August.
The initiative between organizations in Waterloo, Toronto and San Francisco is called Canada House, and it involves the creation of a new, short-term, co-working space with about 20 to 25 desks in San Francisco available to Canadian startups visiting Silicon Valley.
But the structures had what builders call good bones, and the group, the San Juan Community HomeTrust, discovered that the cost of transporting them across the Haro Strait from Canada and restoring them here was comparable to the cost of building from scratch.