1.) savecfbrockcliffe - Ottawa, Ontario. CFB Rockcliffe was a military base.
2.) Save Downsview Park - Toronto, Ontario. CFB Downsview was a military base.
3.) Downsview Lands Community Voice Association.
4.) Set Downsview Free - GIVE TORONTO CONTROL OF DOWNSVIEW.
4.) Upton Farm Preservation - Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island - The country and western song "Help Save Old Upton Farm" can be viewed on YouTube. An Agriculture Canada experimental farm was located here.
5.) S.A.V.E. Senneville as a Village Environment - Senneville, Quebec, the property was a Veteran's Affairs lodge and golf course.
6.) Friends of the Farm P.E.I. - Ravenwood Farm is still an Agriculture Canada experimental farm.
7.) Action - Save the Garden City Lands - Richmond, British Columbia. Garden City was a Fisheries and Oceans Canada transmitter site. The song "Garden City Lands" by Safedriverman can be seen on YouTube.
8.) Save Shannon Park - Shannon Park was a Dartmouth, Nova Scotia military housing complex.
9.) Heritage Montreal - Threatened Emblematic Sites - Silo #5, Montreal, Quebec.
10.) Save Griffintown! - Montreal, Quebec. A Canada Post mail processing plant located at 1500 rue Ottawa was demolished.
11.) Save Jericho Beach, Vancouver, British Columbia - CFB Jericho Beach was a military property.
12.) Save the Kingston Penitentiary and Regional Treatment Centre - Kingston, Ontario.
13.) Friends of Kingston Penitentiary - Kingston, Ontario.
14.) Save Our Prison Farms! - a national campaign.
15.) Keep the Prison Farms - Manitoba.
Petitions
ipetition - Don't Erase History - Protect the Penitentiary.
#ygk Challenge: Save Kingston PEnitentiary and the Regional Treatment Centre.
Save the Kingston Portsmouth Harbour and Green space.
E - 1667 (COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF LAND) Old Port of Montreal, Quebec. The petition was presented to the House of Commons on October 5, 2018.
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Several individuals and community groups are calling for the National Capital Commission to stop selling land to developers. During the 1960's the NCC evicted families from their homes on the premise that the land would remain greenspace in perpetuity (the Ottawa Greenbelt) or the property would be the site of federal buildings, institutions and cultural centres (LeBreton Flats.)
The NCC wants to sell at least 50 acres of the Experimental Farm to the Civic Hospital.
1.) Protect the Farm - Home|Facebook.
2.) Save the Central Experimental Farm - Greenspace Alliance of Canada's Capital.
3.) Saving the Central Experimental Farm|Heritage Ottawa.
4.) COALITION TO SAVE THE CENTRAL EXPERIMENTAL FARM.
5.) Canadian Council on Food Sovereignty and Health. See the YouTube video "Ottawa prepares to hand over historic farmland to corporate developers" January 21, 2017.
6.) Save the Farm - Protest to save our trees and greenspace - 2017.
Petitions
Petition - Protection of the Central Experimental Farm as a research facility and a national historic site of Canada.
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In 1992 the Daly Building in downtown Ottawa was demolished, and the NCC ignored suggestions that the vacant land should remain public and designated a "John Lennon International Peace Park".
The City of Montreal honoured John Lennon, at the Rue Peel entrance to Mount Royal Park 40 flagstones are engraved with the sentence "Give Peace a Chance" in 40 different languages.
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