Last Cat From Parliament Hill’s Former ‘Cat Colony’ Passes Away

Two of Parliament Hill's resident stray cats sit on a park bench outside the House of Commons in Ottawa on Dec. 1, 1999. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tom Hanson

The last living feline from Parliament Hill’s famous cat colony, which operated from the 1970s until 2013, has passed away.

Coal, a black cat that had been fighting salivary gland carcinoma since 2024, passed on July 8 after it became clear that his condition had become “grievous and irremediable,” his owner said.