Canada's Farm in Ottawa was established in 1886.

Why is a military hospital on the Public Land Bank list.

 The National Defence Medical Centre is 3 minutes away from the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, and from the Ottawa General Hospital. The Ottawa Hospital needs more land for the General, Riverside and Civic hospitals: (Google: Untitled Greenspace Alliance of Canada's Capital---Planning and Support Services--Land Planning Matrix, May 28, 2007.)

Health care institutions cannot be encroached upon--- by housing units or by commercial establishments.

Directory of Federal Real Property National Defence Medical Centre, 1867 Alta Vista Drive Ottawa.

Property Number: 08635

Custodian: National Defence

Interest: Crown Owned

Restriction: No Restriction

Primary Use: Military

Address, Place Name and Municipality: Ottawa

Province/Territory: Ontario

Federal Electoral District: Ottawa South

Census Classification: Rural

Land Area: 18.4056 ha or 45 acres

Floor Area: 35, 202 sq. m.

Record Created On: May 29th, 1990

Record Last Modified On: October 28th, 2023

The Civic, General and Riverside hospitals need more land.

 "The Ottawa Hospital (TOH) has developed a Master Plan which provides options and scenarios for future expansion and/or redevelopment of the Civic, General and Riverside campuses." (Planning and Support Services--Land Planning Matrix, May 28, 2007---Google: "Untitled Greenspace Alliance of Canada's Capital.")

Future Expansion--Flexibility for future expansion over and above what is currently planned.  Possible land options in 2007, NCC Options.

• Experimental Farm - Across from Existing Civic
• Experimental Farm - Across from Nepean Sportsplex
• Experimental Farm - Baseline and Fisher (Cross Road)
• Experimental Farm - Sir John Carling Building
• Hurdman Station
• Tunney's Pasture
• Bayview Yards - Adjacent to LeBreton Flats
• Woodroffe at Baseline - Beside Algonquin College
• Nortel Site - Carling at Moodie
• Confederation Heights - Riverside/Heron; Canada Post
• Booth Street 
• Hunt Club South Corner

A military hospital in Toronto was given away to the University of Toronto: House of Commons Ottawa July 12, 1966: Mr. Thomas Speakman Barnett, Comox-Alberni, B.C. (Co-operative Commonwealth Foundation CCF): "I should like to ask the Minister of Industry whether since the federal government has sold Sunnybrook Hospital to the University of Toronto for one dollar, the government will consider like action and selling a much less valuable property in Alberni for a like amount."

Parks Canada News Release, Ottawa, Ontario. January 15, 2025.

"Today, the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change and Minister Responsible for Parks Canada, announced the designation of the Dominion Observatory Complex as a national historic site of Canada under Parks Canada's National Program of Historical Commemoration."

A comment by Minister Guilbeault: "For 65 years, the Dominion Observatory Complex was an important centre of research collaboration in the fields of astronomy, geophysics, seismology and gravitational studies. The precision of its master clock was also instrumental in setting official time standards across the country. Today's designation as a national historic site allows us to share important stories about our cultural heritage and stands as a testament to Canada's ingenuity and dedication in pursuing scientific excellence."

The buildings   

• Dominion Astrophysical Observatory
• Geophysical Laboratory
• Machine Shop
• Geodetic Survey
• Seismology Survey
• South Azimuth
• Photo Equatorial

My visit to the Experimental Farm in Ottawa, March 31, 2025.

 

The William Saunders Building

Another view of the William Saunders Building.

The Dominion Observatory Campus.

"These are our buildings."

 House of Commons Ottawa February 9, 2001 MP Pat Martin (Winnipeg Centre, NDP): "The federal government owns 68,000 buildings."

Recently sold for housing: The Kingston Pen and 3 more Corrections Canada properties on King Street. 

• Kingston Penitentiary is a National Historic Site of Canada and a Classified Federal Heritage Building. The City of Kingston wants the perimeter walls removed to accommodate buses and cars, and guard towers cannot interfere with views of Lake Ontario. The southern half of the Pen will be demolished for residential housing.
• The Isabel MacNeill Halfway House for Women, 525 King Street West. Was protected by Part 1V of the Ontario Heritage Act.
• St. Helen's Complex, 440 King Street West. It was protected by Part 1V of the Ontario Heritage Act.
• Stone Gables, 462 King Street West, created by inmates of KP with limestone. Protected by Part 1V of the Ontario Heritage Act. 

Sold in the year 2007:

• Vancouver - 401 Burrard Street and the Sinclair Centre
• Edmonton - Canada Place
• Toronto - Joseph Shepard
• Montreal - 4225 Dorchester and 305 Rene-Levesque West

A video called "PSAC National President John Gordon Delivers Speech" is on YouTube. Comments by NDP MP Peggy Nash: "Our job representing Canadians on the Government Operations and Estimates Committee is to ensure that spending from the federal government is in the best interest of Canadians. We are the democratic stewards of the tax dollars paid by Canadians."

 "So you would think, that with a sale like this, hundreds of millions of dollars of Crown assets, that we would be informed as to the details of such a huge sale that is going to affect the well-being of Canadians...Our parents and grandparents have worked very hard over the years and our tax dollars have paid for these buildings, for the assets of the people of Canada. These are our buildings."

When Government of Canada buildings are privatized, our Maple Leaf Flag, Coat of Arms and the names of prominent people are stripped from the edifice. House of Commons Ottawa February 7, 1994 Mr. Alex Shepherd (Durham) Liberal: "Mr. Speaker, those of us who are proud Canadians are offended that CP Rail has decided to change its logo into what in effect looks like the Canadian flag becoming or being subsumed into the American flag. Regardless of CP's rights as a private company to choose any logo it wants, Canadians should have a voice in this matter."