More reasons why a hospital should not be built on the Experimental Farm.

1.)  The Experimental Farm on Carling Avenue is a National Interest Land Mass. National Interest Land Mass properties are protected from encroachment in perpetuity:
     "NILM Lands: "The national institutions and symbols, rivers and canal banks, Confederation Boulevard, the parkway corridors, Gatineau Park and the Greenbelt will be retained 'in perpetuity'." (From: "The 1988 Plan for Canada's Capital-National Capital Commission").
                                            National Interest Land Mass
     "Identifies lands that are essential to the achievement of the National Capital Commission's mandate. Lands identified within the NILM are required to support the symbolism, functions, physical structure, and natural and cultural landscape qualities of Canada's Capital. A NILM designation indicates a formal expression of the federal governments long-term use of these lands in a manner that supports Canada's Capital." (From: [PDF]" Proponent's Guide to the NCC's Federal Land Use." Page 7/20. September of 2018.)

2.) The Friends of the Central Experimental Farm are concerned about the future of several buildings:
     "Buildings of concern are those within the Dominion Observatory Campus; the William Saunders Building; the Heritage House (#60); and the Genetics Building (#34)." (From: Friends of the CEF Fall 2017 newsletter.)

3.)  During the year 1998 Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada accepted the Historic Sites and Monuments Board recommendation to designate the CEF as "a cultural landscape of national historic and architectural significance." (From: Heritage Ottawa| 50 Years/50 Stories - Number 23.)

4.)  The Central Experimental Farm may be designated a UNESCO Cultural World Heritage Landscape. A representative from the government of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau signed the UN "Convention Concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage" treaty.

5.)  "The ongoing long-term experiments on Field No. 1 earned Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada a citation in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007 Nobel Peace Prize." ("How relocating a hospital could compromise Canada's agricultural innovation" by Peter Anderson, -Special to TVO.org. October 6, 2015.)

Research conducted on the Farm helped  the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change win the 2007  Nobel  Peace Prize.

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My heart sank when I watched a video of the Sir John Carling Building demolition. I have walked or taken bus rides past the landmark thousands of times. (Photo from cbc.ca.)

Federal government views protection policy.
Sir Sandford Fleming.
CEF Master Plan 1973.
Dominion Observatory Campus Master Plan - prepared by NRCan 2002.
CEF 2000 Master Plan.
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Dignitaries from other countries visited the Agriculture Canada property.
King George and Queen Elizabeth (1939).

 Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev( 1983).

Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan on the Central Experimental Farm. The William Saunders Building can be seen in the background.

According to the "Friends of the Central Experimental Farm" the William Saunders Building faces an uncertain future because of  the relocation of the Civic Hospital.

 Mr. Gorbachev and his wife Raisa Gorbacheva visited Ottawa during the year 1990 - "Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev wows them in Ottawa" -CBC Archives. "Gorbymania strikes Canadian Capital" - YouTube.
Anne, The Princess Royal (1982).

Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan tour the National Historic Site beside Carling Avenue in Ottawa, July 5, 1982. ( Photo is from The Canadian Press/Andy Clark/ Windsor Star.)

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