Proximity to the port gave the area a new lease of life. In 1833, the "marché Sainte-Anne" was built to accommodate the fruit and vegetable sellers. The Georgian building consisted for two long wings, a Portico entrance on one end and a central section topped with a smaller steeple. The "marché Sainte-Anne" was so attractive that the Parliament of the Province of Canada moved into it in 1844, where the representatives of Upper and Lower Canada sat (present-day south Ontario and Quebec); a second market building built in 1844 behind the new Parliament building (and later demolished in 1860) substituted the original role of the old market. It was burned down on April 25, 1849, when English-speaking demonstrators drove the representatives out and set fire to the building because they opposed the Rebellion Losses Bill, pardoning those who had been involved in the Lower Canada Rebellion. Montreal thus lost its status as capital city.