190 Coltrin Road is the residence of the High Commissioner of

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...

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, Canada. It is located in the enclave of

Rockcliffe Park Rockcliffe Park ( French: ''Parc Rockcliffe'') is a neighbourhood in Rideau-Rockcliffe Ward, close to the centre of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Established in 1864, organized as a Police village in 1908, and an independent village from 1926, and ul ...

amongst other prestigious ambassadorial residences. It was constructed in 1929 and is considered an important historical site, according to the ''Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee'' of Rockcliffe Park, under the ''

Ontario Heritage Act The ''Ontario Heritage Act'', (the ''Act'') first enacted on March 5, 1975, allows municipalities and the provincial government to designate individual properties and districts in the Province of Ontario, Canada, as being of cultural heritage ...

'' (1974).

History

190 Coltrin Road was designed by ''Clarence Burritt'' in 1929 for the son and daughter of G. H. Millen, former president of the E. B. Eddy Company. The house was briefly owned by W. Garfield Weston of the Weston Bakeries empire. It was bought by Pakistan in 1949 as a residence for their high commissioner. Since then, it has served for more than five decades as the residence of the High Commissioner of Pakistan to Canada.

Architecture

190 Coltrin Road was made with the intention of incorporating several architectural styles, including: * The Georgian Revival, as depicted in the Ionic columns at the entrance and dentils on the cornice. * The

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

, in the details of its dormer windows * Colonial

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, in the red brick facade and symmetric white picket fence.

Ambassadorial Residence

This residence has historically seated almost all Pakistani High Commissioners: * Shahid Malik *

Musa Javed Chohan Musa Javed Chohan (Urdu: ) (b. 30 May 1948 in Pind Dadan Khan, Pakistan) is the former High Commissioner of Pakistan to Canada, as well as the former ambassador of Pakistan to France and Pakistan's permanent representative to UNESCO from 2001 t ...

Naela Chohan Naela Chohan (Urdu: نائلہ چوہان, alternative spelling ''Naila Chohan'') (born 6 May 1958 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan) is a Pakistani ambassador, artist and diplomat. As a seasoned and veteran diplomat, ambassador Chohan has assumed a le ...

* Akbar Zeb

Trivia

A small seed that

Liaqat Ali Khan Liaquat Ali Khan ( ur, ; 1 October 1895 – 16 October 1951), also referred to in Pakistan as ''Quaid-e-Millat'' () or ''Shaheed-e-Millat'' ( ur, lit=Martyr of the Nation, label=none, ), was a Pakistani statesman, lawyer, political theoris ...

planted on this residence on June 1, 1951, now stands as one of the tallest trees in

References

Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee (LACAC), Village of Rockcliffe Park. ''Walking in the Village of Rockcliffe Park''. Established by Ontario Heritage Act (1974). Ottawa, 1982. {{Coord, 45, 27, 15, N, 75, 40, 57.5, W, region:CA-ON_type:landmark_scale:5000, display=title Diplomatic residences in Ottawa Diplomatic missions of Pakistan Georgian Revival architecture Canada–Pakistan relations