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Red Chamber
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1
the chamber in the Parliament Buildings where the Senate convenes.
Quotations
1905
The innocent hawbuck who imagines that the red chamber is full of dignity and high thoughts has never listened to the debates from the galleries, for the ultra-prudish newspapers suppress the graphic and staggering parts of the debate which create the atmosphere.
1966
The House of Commons is sometimes called the Green Chamber and the Senate the Red Chamber because the carpet, the leather chair bottoms, and the desk blotters are all green, whereas in the Senate they are red.
2
the Senate (def. 1) itself.
See: Senate(def. 1)
Quotations
1955
Canada's first woman senator is Mrs. Norman F. Wilson, who shattered a fifty-year-old tradition that had preserved the Red Chamber as an exclusively men's club when she stepped over the threshold in 1930.
1958
Senator Gladstone is a quiet, intelligent, educated man who has run the gamut from printer to rancher and ultimately a member of the Red Chamber in his 71 years of life.
1965
. . . Mr. Pearson . . . could make no better beginning than to appoint to the Red Chamber 12 such Canadians.