Sunday, July 9, 2023

The Mile Circle in Ottawa.

1986 - In the House of Commons, MP's Jean-Paul Gauthier and Barry Turner express their opposition to the sale of Mile Circle to the American embassy. 

June 19, 2021:"Mile Circle and Aviation Museum Area Lands to be Preserved from Development" Rockcliffe Park News. "The following response was received to a request seeking confirmation that Mile Circle and lands to the east of Birch Street and lands around the Aviation Museum and the Rockcliffe Park Airport whose designations have been changed to allow for development will be preserved as green space."

February 11, 2023: "NCC plan for George -Etienne park includes Mile Circle." Manor Park Chronicle. "A 'medium scale facility' could be built on Mile Circle...A 13-kilometre stretch of the park has been identified as falling within the scope of the plan." 


Photographs that I took of Princess Diana at the Terry Fox Canadian Youth Centre in Manor Park on June 22, 1983. The Terry Fox property was privatized and sold to a real estate company called Manor Park Estates. The company is building thousands of homes and high-rise apartments in Manor Park.








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