No buildings will be built on Queen Juliana Park.

A comment by the Hon. Charles Green (Minister of Public Works; Leader of the Government in the House of Commons; Progressive Conservative Party House Leader), June 16, 1958.
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During World War 11 the Government of Canada constructed a number of temporary office complexes in Ottawa. Temporary Building #8 was located on the Central Experimental Farm.
House of Commons  Ottawa  June 16, 1958.
Hon. George James McIlraith, Liberal.
Mr. McIlraith:
     "Mr. Chairman, I wonder if the minister is now prepared to make the statement he said he would make concerning the policy of the government with respect to buildings on the central experimental farm. The minister will recall I raised this question the last time the estimates were before the Committee."
Mr. Green:
     "The policy is that no buildings will be built on the central experimental farm except buildings for the Department of Agriculture."
Mr. McIlraith:
     "If I may pursue the first question a bit further, has the minister come to any conclusion as to what will be done with the land on the experimental farm when they are removed?"
Mr. Green:
     "I take it that the hon. member for Ottawa West refers to temporary buildings Nos. 5 and 8. For some years the policy has been when the temporary buildings are torn down nothing will be constructed on the site."
Mr. McIlraith:
     "I want to commend the minister for continuing the policy set out a few years ago by the Liberal administration in that regard. I believe he will agree it is a very satisfactory policy."
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The National Capital Commission and Public Works gave the $4 million dollar Dow's Lake parking lot, QJP and the grounds of the Sir John Carling building to a health care facility.
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September 22, 1954. The photo is from Library and Archives Canada.

Demolition of Temporary Buildings No. 5 and No. 8, 1976. Carling Avenue is on the left and Dow's Lake can be seen on the right. Library and Archives photo taken from the top of the Sir John Carling Building.

 

    Queen Juliana Park, 870 Carling Avenue Ottawa.    
5.5883 ha. or 13.80800 acres.
Primary Use: Parks and Recreation.
Record Modified on August 19, 2019.
(From: The Directory of Federal Real Property website.)
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   Petition: City of Ottawa Planning Committee: Stop the rezoning of Parks to Condos, Queen Juliana in Little Italy.                             
     "The City of Ottawa planners are rezoning Little Italy to medium to high density condos for the area bounded by the 417 north to Carling south to Rochester east and the railroad tracks west. The Queen Juliana Park was founded in 1976 when the Federal government tore down the Temporary Buildings...The purpose (of the park) was to honour Queen Juliana of Holland and to relocate community uses of the Commissioner's Park in 1976 when Italian Week and St. Anthony's Church used Commissioner's Park to celebrate Italian Canadian Culture. In 1976, Mr. Edes of the NCC convinced Public Works to create (Queen Juliana) park for community use."
(Note: The official who convinced PWGSC to give Queen Juliana Park to the people of Canada was  Eldon Edey, who was the Director of Gatineau Park and a member of the NCC.

There is a photograph of H.R.H. Prince Charles walking between Mr. Edey and the Hon. Barney Danson in the April 22, 1975 edition of the Ottawa Citizen. And a different photo of the group can be found in the National Capital Commission 1974-1975 Annual Report, page 67 out of 89.)

     Architect Moses Edey designed the Daly Building and Cattle Castle at Lansdowne Park and lived about three miles away from the Farm on Somerset West in Ottawa.