Editing Courthouse (section)

== Canada ==
{{See also|Category:Courthouses in Canada}}
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In [[Canada]], each municipality constructs its own courthouse, or several in the case of large cities. In smaller communities the court is in the same building as the [[city hall]] and other municipal offices. In the past many courthouses also included the local prison.

One well-known court house in Canada is the [[Romanesque Revival]] (Neo-Romanesque) [[Old City Hall (Toronto)|Old City Hall]] in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]]. Designed by [[E.J. Lennox]], Old City Hall was completed in 1899 and has been functioning as a municipal building ever since. It was originally constructed to facilitate Toronto's City Council, legal and municipal offices and the city's courts however following the construction of the fourth [[Toronto City Hall|city hall]] (adjacent to the third, on Queen Street) the building's purpose was limited to being solely a courthouse for the [[Ontario Court of Justice]].<ref name="old city">{{cite web| title=Toronto's Old City Hall| url=http://www.toronto.ca/old_cityhall/old_cityhall_tour.htm| publisher=Toronto.ca| access-date=2011-03-08| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120825081201/http://www.toronto.ca/old_cityhall/old_cityhall_tour.htm| archive-date=2012-08-25| url-status=dead}}</ref> The building can be described as Romanesque Revival due to multiple characteristics it shares with Romanesque architecture, despite being constructed seven centuries later in a completely different continent. These characteristics include the materiality in terms of large stone construction, the repetitive rhythmic use of windows containing various sized arches and [[barrel vaults]] directing attention towards them, decorated [[spandrels]] (wall section connecting arches) and the inclusion of gabled walls (pointed sections).  Old City Hall has been designated a National Historical Site since 1989.<ref name="history">{{cite web| url=http://www.toronto.ca/old_cityhall/history.htm| title=Toronto's Third City Hall| publisher=Toronto.ca| access-date=2011-03-08| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015214133/http://www.toronto.ca/old_cityhall/history.htm| archive-date=2012-10-15| url-status=dead}}</ref>
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Image:Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa.jpg|The [[Supreme Court of Canada]] in [[Ottawa]]
Image:Kings County Museum.JPG|The [[Kings County Museum|Kings County Courthouse]], [[Kentville, Nova Scotia]]
Image:Halifax Court House.JPG|The [[Halifax Court House]] in [[City of Halifax|Halifax]], Nova Scotia
Image:Frontenac County Court House (2010-Apr-12).jpg|The [[Frontenac County Court House]], [[Kingston, Ontario]]
Image:Vancouver - law courts 01.jpg|The [[Law Courts (Vancouver)|Law Courts]] in [[Vancouver]] British Columbia
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