"Keep developers off the Farm."

"A 1998 survey found that 74% of Ottawa-Carleton residents wanted to keep housing subdivisions off the Central Experimental Farm land, and even more (78%) did not want major office or commercial buildings there. Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson was not surprised by the results, saying 'I think that the Central Experimental Farm is a real gem in the city and I don't think the public wants to take open and green space and have it developed.' Results of the survey by the COMPAS research firm were reported in The Citizen on August 3, 1998." 

A front-page article in the Ottawa Citizen, August 3, 1998.

A December 17, 1946 article from the Ottawa Journal.