O Canada We Stand on Guard for Thee.

How to preserve Canada's history and culture:
Save all of the remaining one-room schoolhouses in Ontario. I attended a one-room schoolhouse in Easton's Corners, Ontario in 1956.

I am 5 years old in 1956.

The one-room schoolhouse in the  Ontario village where I lived. I took this photo during the early 1990's.

Do not let Larco Investments build their condominiums next to the Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ottawa; or the residential towers on the Dominion Public Building, 1 Front Street Toronto.

Do not let the Canada Lands Company demolish any more National Historic Sites of Canada, or Classified Heritage Buildings or Recognized Heritage Buildings. 

Recognize the historic value of more cities and towns in Ontario. Do not let Infrastructure Ontario sell the Perth Jail or Rockwood Asylum or the Guelph Reformatory. The Ontario government, and politicians including David Crombie and John Sewell saved the Don Jail in Toronto. The Don Jail is a filming location for the television program "Suits".

In Shopper's Drug Mart and convenience stores, have the Canada Post employees wear a Canada Post uniform instead of a store uniform. And Canada Post workers should not be stocking shelves with merchandise, or taking passport photographs or ringing up items on cash registers. I would also like to see a Canadian Maple Leaf flag attached to a nearby wall. I have relatives who worked for Canada Post (my Dad), Canada Customs (my sister-in-law), and Statistics Canada (my aunt)---working for Manpower or any other Federal Government Department was considered a sacred duty, an honour. You even had to swear an Oath of Allegiance with one hand placed on a Bible before you were hired. I was proud to be a federal government worker, a "civil servant" a "public servant". When government employees retire, they are given very appreciative, lovely letters from the Prime Minister of Canada; and from their superiors at the department where they employed. (Below, a letter that my husband received from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau):

     "On the occasion of your retirement from the Public Service, I wish to thank you on behalf of the Government and people of Canada for 28 years of loyal service and to extend to you our best wishes.

(signed)  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau." A replica of Canada's Coat of Arms is embossed in gold leaf,and the Seal of the Prime Minister of Canada is also embossed in gold leaf. The letter is framed.

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Have Fisheries and Oceans Canada reclaim the 1,000 lighthouses that were declared "surplus" by the DFO. I am sure that that Consolidated Revenue Fund has enough money to repair any lighthouses  that were damaged, since they were abandoned a few years ago.

 Forget about building a new Civic Hospital on the grounds of the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa. The Dominion Observatory Campus, the barns and gardens, the nearby Little Italy, Dow's Lake Pavilion and Commissioner's Park are important tourist venues. And 17 Experimental Farms in Canada have already been decommissioned.

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