Province House, Parliament building in Charlottetown, Canada

Province House is a three-storey stone building at Richmond and Great George Streets in Charlottetown, designed by the self-trained Yorkshire architect Isaac Smith and built by Island craftsmen from 1843 to 1847. Its light grey-brown facade has a tall portico of four smooth columns on square bases rising through the second and third storeys to a plain entablature and triangular pediment. A round-arched entrance flanked by two round-arched windows sits below rows of rectangular windows.

The cornerstone was laid in May 1843 and the legislature first met here in January 1847; Isaac Smith, a self-trained architect from Yorkshire, designed the building, which cost £10,000. From 1 to 7 September 1864 it hosted the Charlottetown Conference, the meetings that led to Canadian Confederation. Parks Canada and the province agreed on 99-year joint management in 1973, and a C$3.5 million restoration from 1979 to 1983 returned part of the interior to its 1864 appearance.

The legislature sat here from 1847 until the 2015 closure, when it moved to the neighbouring Hon. George Coles Building. The grounds hold the Charlottetown Veterans Memorial, a bronze of three soldiers by G. W. Hill dedicated on 16 July 1925, and a small statue of Eckhart the Mouse, one of nine placed around the city in 2009.

Access is currently limited as the building undergoes structural repairs and conservation work through Parks Canada, with reopening planned for 2025. Visitors should check ahead to see which areas are accessible and whether guided tours are available.

A pipe bomb exploded under a wooden wheelchair ramp on the north side on 20 April 1995, shattering windows and injuring passersby five minutes after a school class had walked past. A group called Loki 7 claimed responsibility, but the courts blamed one man, Roger Charles Bell; police treated it as a copycat of the Oklahoma City bombing the day before.