in many Canadian cities and towns, a building in which regional offices of federal government departments are located, often including a post office.
- 1953  Work is going ahead rapidly on the large new Federal Building, which occupies a city block in the centre of down-town Whitehorse.
- 1963  On his feet again, he jogs . . . to the Federal Building where he takes a brief look into Magistrate Adams' police court. . . .