Sinclair Centre - Part of Canada's Heritage
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Protection of the Government of Canada's heritage buildings became an issue in the early 1980s as a result of strong public concern for the protection and conservation of heritage buildings. The federal government was prompted to take action to protect its own buildings in 1982.
Sinclair Centre, located at 757 West Hastings Street between Granville and Howe streets, is a building with a lot of history and has been one of Canada’s Federal Heritage buildings since 1983.Sinclair Centre is comprised of four different buildings: the Post Office (1910), the Winch Building (1911), the Customs Examining Warehouse (1913), and the Federal Building (1937), all restored by Henriquez Partners Architects in 1986 at a cost of $38 million.
The main post office was housed here from 1910 to 1958. The Federal Building is in an Edwardian Baroque style, combining English and French influences. It features an atrium clock consisting of four 12-foot diameter clocks built in 1909 and is the largest clock movement in Western Canada; the minute hands alone weigh 92 kilograms each.
There are over 450 PSAC members who work at Sinclair Centre from the Public Service Commission, Consult & Audit Canada, Agriculture Canada, Human Resources Social Development Canada, Passport Canada, Canada Industrial Relations Board, Canada Revenue Agency, Environment Canada Aboriginal Affairs Division, Canadian Environment Assessment Agency, and Health Canada.