Similarities between Stanley Park and the Experimental Farm.

 Stanley Park in Vancouver, BC encompasses 1,001 acres of land, while the Farm in Ottawa is 1,012 acres. 

They are both National Historic Sites of Canada. The Farm is also:

a.) A National Interest Land Mass certified by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in 1988;

b.) Part of a 900 square mile memorial to Canadian soldiers that was established by Prime Minister Mackenzie King in 1950. 

c.) An open area in perpetuity, recommended by Prime Minister and President of the Privy Council Louis St-Laurent; via a Privy Council Order-in-Council from March 17, 1954.

.Canadian Privy Council Orders-in-Council take legal effect when signed by the Head of State Queen Elizabeth 11; or signed by the  Governor General of Canada, who is the representive of the Head of State in this country. The Governor General of Canada in 1954 was the Right Hon.Vincent Massey. The architect Hart Massey was the son of Governor General Massey, and he designed the Sir John Carling Building, headquarters of Agriculture Canada. The Carling Building was demolished, and it was located on a hill near Queen Juliana Park, 870 Carling Avenue. Hart Massey also designed the West Annex Cafeteria, demolished by the Ottawa Civic Hospital.

The Rideau Canal, Dominion Observatory campus and Experimental Farm are all National Historic Sites of Canada. Senate Bill S-203 was created to protect the areas.

 Stanley Park is named the "Top park in the entire world." (Global News, June 18, 2014.) The CEF is "A sprawling Victorian farm that has been surrounded by a capital city is one of Canada's greatest treasures."..."Paris has L'Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower, London has Big Ben and Buckingham Palace, Washington has the Lincoln Memorial, the White House and the Smithsonian Institution and Ottawa has...a farm." (Atlas Obscura.)

They were both preserved as federal public land between 1886 and 1888.

The CEF is 'A Museum without Walls', 'An Oasis in the City', 'A national treasure to be lovingly preserved' and 'Canada's Farm'.

The above maps are from the Federal Directory of Real Property website.

1983.