House of Commons Ottawa April 26, 1928. Member of Parliament George Taylor MacNutt (Colchester, Nova Scotia): "...It is my desire to have for the Canadian people beauty and culture...Ottawa is very well supplied with parks and driveways, and besides it has a glorified farm not far away that serves as a park and a very beautiful one at that."
MP Abraham Albert Heaps (North Winnipeg, Manitoba) Labour: "...With regard to what my hon. friend the mover of the amendment (Miss Macphail) has just said, I would point out to her and to the house, that with respect to large, open spaces in the centre of cities, it is an experience the world over that those who benefit most in the end are those who, unfortunately, are in limited circumstances and who as a consequence are precluded from having the enjoyment of homes and grounds such as those more well-to-do are able to afford. They are the ones who perhaps more than others derive the major benefit of the large parks in the great cities."
" At the rate at which development is taking place in Ottawa, I am confident that it will not be long before this city will become congested in the matter of population, and I do not hesitate to say that the ones who more than any others will appreciate what this parliament is doing day-to-day are the mothers of little children who will find it possible to enjoy advantages for their families in this way of which otherwise they would have been deprived."
Capital parkland that the people of Canada are losing. Lazy Bay Commons in the Mechanicsville neighbourhoood; Queen Juliana in Little Italy; part of the Arboretum and the Ornamental Gardens when Prince of Wales Drive is widened,
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