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Lester B. Pearson Building
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The Lester B. Pearson Building is the headquarters of the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada). It is located at 125 Sussex Drive in Ottawa, Ontario, and was built between 1968 and 1973. It is named after Lester B. Pearson, former external affairs minister, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Canadian prime minister.
Because of its forbidding appearance, the building is sometimes unofficially called "Fort Pearson," which also often serves as a synonym for the department that occupies it.
The building consists of four "towers" (although two of these are connected to each other and mutually accessible above the first floor). There is also a sizeable cafeteria located on the first floor which serves not only Foreign Affairs employees but also attracts employees from nearby government facilities.
The Department was established in 1909 but did not establish its first foreign mission until 1927 in Washington, D.C.