Sunday, October 31, 2021

Honouring the Dominion Observatory, Experimental Farm and Rideau Canal.

The Dominion Observatory, Ottawa in a Canada Post ad, MSN Internet News, October 31, 2021.



Sir Sandford Fleming at the Canadian Pacific Railway's "Last Spike". Sir Fleming 'designed Canada's first postage stamp and championed the idea of standard time'.

Plaques in front of the Dominion Observatory in Ottawa that memorialize Sir Sandford Fleming and William Frederick King:


Isabella Preston's crabapple trees and many other plant specimens are located along Prince of Wales Drive, in the Arboretum and Ornamental Gardens. The crabapple trees may be chopped down when Prince of Wales Drive is turned into a trucking route.

The Rideau Canal Winterlude image is from Narcity.

A stirling silver coin celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Canadian Tulip Festival.


The United Nations will strip the designation "UNESCO World Heritage Site" from the Rideau Canal if a hospital is built near Dow's Lake.

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