Take a look inside the Province House restoration

Work has now begun on the walls that hold up P.E.I.'s Province House as phase two of a major restoration project on the 171-year-old building gets underway.

Greg Shaw, project manager with Parks Canada, said the hope is the restoration project, which began in January 2015, will be complete by December 2021.

"It really sounds strange, but 2022, we kind of hope that it looks very much the way it did before we started this work," he said.

"That's a really tough thing to say when you spend a significant amount of funds on a building. But that's part of the conservation approach. We want to maintain those heritage, character-defining elements so that when people come through that it looks very much the way it did when we moved out."

The federal government just announced another $14.1 million towardthe project, bringing the total estimated cost for phases one and two to $61 million.

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