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West Block

• the block of offices comprising the most westerly of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa.

  See also: block (def. 7b)  Centre Block  East Block  Western Block  

  • 1958  The original East Block and West Block, housing departmental staffs, are still in use.
  • 1963  But the experts around the U-shaped table in the West Block's room 308 were slightly out of place. . . .