Friday, November 30, 2018

The Campanile Campus, Ottawa.

The Campanile Campus at 1495 Heron Road was also known as the Federal Study Centre. According to Heritage Ottawa:
     "Designed by Ottawa architect Tim Murray, the sizable complex was comprised of twelve interconnected Pavilions arranged around a chapel and four small courtyards, each one devoted to the academic, the administrative, the novitiate and the monastic."
     The Canadian government bought the former Congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame campus  in 1973. (For more detailed information about the Campanile complex, read: "Church in Alta Vista now sits like a ghost town, its future uncertain" by Lisa Gregoire: Photography: Marc Fowler. Posted in ottawamagazine.com October 4, 2017.)

The word "campanile" is a medieval Latin word meaning "bell tower" or "belfry".

The former Summerhill Train Station tower is similar in design to the Campanile di San Marco bell tower in Venice, Italy. The real estate arm of the Canadian Pacific Railway wanted to demolish the Summerhill Train Station during the early 1970's. But nearby residents fought the CPR and Marathon Realty, see the book "Marlborough Marathon-One Street Against a Developer" by J.L. Granatstein. The Liquor Control Board of Ontario owns the landmark--- fortunately the building is still public property, because the LCBO is a provincial Crown corporation.

The former Summerhill Station, North Toronto Ontario.  

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