"100 years from now the farm will be to Ottawa what Hyde park is to London or Central park to New York."

House of Commons Ottawa March 6, 1959. The Hon. D. S. Harkness (Minister of Agriculture) Progressive Conservative: "...The national capital commission is in the process of acquiring some 4,000 acres of land in the green belt to be used by the Department of Agriculture as an annex to the central experimental farm. It will accommodate the animal research studies..."

"The agriculture department can use and intends to use all the present experimental farm, and has no plans whatever for disposing any part of it. In my view the farm is one of the great assets of Ottawa as a city, and the farm will be increasingly an asset as time goes on. I would envisage that 100 years from now the farm will be to Ottawa what Hyde park is to London or Central park to New York. I would certainly hope that it would not be used for building purposes, and the only big open space in the city thus alienated and done away with."

The Privy Council of Canada document pertaining to additional land that was needed by the CEF.