The Greber Report of 1950.

 Jacques Greber was an urban planner from Paris, France. After World War 11 Jacques Greber created a National Capital in Ottawa "dedicated to the memory of Canadians who gave their lives to the nation in the Second World War." (Greber Report,page 228/395.)

The following landscapes and buildings are sacrosanct or sacred: The Parliament Buildings.

Parliament Hill-After the 9-11attacks, a federal politician suggested that the public should be banned from the Hill. Now, the National Capital Commission and City of Ottawa are planning to remove land from the grounds of Parliament Hill and Supreme Court for a transit project. Councillor Jeff Leiper doubted that the project will ever be approved: "Kitchissippi Counc. Jeff Leiper worried some of the issues with the Wellington route would be "deal breakers" with the "stickiest" point being talks with the federal government to use fringes of the parliamentary precinct. Any tram on Wellington Street would need two stations and would require federal land on the north side of Wellington Street around the Supreme Court of Canada. It would also affect the current eight entrances to the precinct." ("Sparks Street tunnel preferred route for Gatineau tram" CBC News, September 2, 2020.)

The Greber Report recommended that the following properties should be retained as green space in perpetuity: "Extensive parks and playgrounds were recommended, including the acquirement of lands in the Laurentian Hills for a National Park, and the development of Dow's Lake and its adjacent lands as a recreational centre was strongly urged."(Page 199/395.)

Ottawa public gardens. Rockcliffe Park, 70 acres.   Central Park (Clemow Avenue), 16 ".   Brewer Park (End of Bronson Ave.) 39 acres.   Commissioner Park (Dow's Lake), 4 acres.   Green Island Park (Mouth of Rideau River), 6 ".   Nepean Point and Major's Hill Park, 21 acres.   McDonald Park (Charlotte Street), 7 acres.

Anglesea Square (York Street), 3 ".   Strathcona Park (Range Road), 8 ".   St. Luke's Park (Frank Street) 1-5 ".   Minto Park (Elgin St.) 1-5 acres.   Dundonald Park (Somerset St.) 2 acres.  

Plouffe Park and Juvenile Playground, Preston Street, 4 acres. A municipal housing agency is building hundreds of housing units on this land, located at 933 Gladstone.

McNab Park (Gladstone Ave.) 3 acres.   Reid Farm Park (Sherwood Drive) 6 ".   Ballantyne Park (Main Street) Ottawa East.  (Information is from Page 160/395, Greber Report.)

Hull public gardens.  Fontaine Park (Papineau St.) 4 acres.   Sainte-Marie Park (Saint-Redempteur St.) 1-5 ".   Laroque Park (Brodeur St.) 2 acres.   St. John Park (Montcalm St.) 2 ".    Mousette Park (Val Tetreau) 17 acres.

Parks under the control of the Federal District Commission (now called the National Capital Commission) - Total: 809.5 acres. (Page 163/395.)

The Greenbelt.

Buildings that were created for the Federal Department of Veteran's Affairs after World War 11:

East Memorial Building, 284 Wellington St. Ottawa. The monument was on a list of "surplus" Crown assets:"PWGSC Awards Contract with Respect to Certain Real Estate Assets" News Release, September 15, 2006.

West Memorial Building, 344 Wellington. A memorial colonnade over Lyon Street links the two buildings.
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Jacques Greber would never have approved of a PWGSC and National Capital Commission plan to modernize the Parliamentary Precinct. Eleven buildings on the Embassy Block are slated for demolition, and foreign architects are involved in a design competition to redevelop the most iconic landscape in Canada: "The south side of Wellington Street should be dignified, and be treated as a continuous monumental background to the north side. It should be subject to very strict height regulations"...more (Page 337/395, Greber Report of 1950.) As I have said before, the I.M. Pei Architectural Firm of New York City is on a list of companies that may be permitted to:----strip Canada's Maple Leaf Flag from the edifices; remove the names of prominent people; demolish our built history and design futuristic office towers. 

The Embassy Block, Wellington Street Ottawa. The former American Embassy, pictured above, is probably the only structure on Block 2 that will escape from clear cutting. The northern half of the Sparks Street Mall is on the hit list. And the local politician for Somerset Ward is eager to see more residential towers on the Mall.