Province House reopened. We find out what Islanders think about the renovations

I'm Taylor O'Brien here in downtown Charlottetown and behind me is the historic Province House. After 12 years of being closed for refurbishments the historic building is finally open and you can see behind me so many people are in line patiently waiting to go inside and take a tour of the building and see all of the work that's been done. Now for so long this part of the building over here that where I'm standing on was fenced off and you couldn't even get up to the front door And now today, that's a completely different story. People are going inside and going right up to the building. It was a wonderful place to visit, wonderful historic place to visit. And you could tell the history when you walk through the place. And I suspect it's gonna feel the same again because it's just been fixed up so nicely just from the outside, it looks so wonderful. Inside is even better because I felt like it was gonna be like still a bit older, but when I got in there, it was fresh and like brand new. I think it's neat when they try to preserve history. think in Canada we don't always preserve our history as well as maybe we have been as we have in the past so it's great that an effort was made to preserve history. This project came to around 138 million dollars and a lot of work has been done on it to modernize the building. Every stone on the inside and outside the Province House was removed, cleaned and either restored or refurbished. Every banister, every window, door was worked on and so So much work was done on the building to modernize it, and now everyone is here to take a look and see all of the work that has been done. Taylor O'Brien, CBC News, Charlottetown.