The Ottawa Improvement Commission eventually became the National Capital Commission: "Under no conditions whatever should the ground now occupied by the Experimental Farm be used for other than park purposes, should its present use as a farm be abandoned." (From: Report of the Ottawa Improvement Commission on a general plan for the cities of Ottawa and Hull, 1915, page 126/238.)
I believe that the Observatory campus on Maple Drive near Carling Avenue will be flattened..302 Denison Road was privatized and housing was built:
The Gonzales Observatory, 302 Denison Road, Victoria BC: "Victoria Heritage Foundation - The building was given federal heritage protection in the 1980's, with the highest rating of 'Classified Federal Heritage Building.'...In 1987 the federal Public Works department announced a plan to sell most of the land north of the Observatory for housing development, and to sell the building itself and the land immediately surrounding it to the City of Victoria for $1 dollar."
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| The former Gonzales Hill Observatory in Victoria. |
The Penticton Astrophysical Observatory House of Commons Ottawa June 26, 1972: MP Gaston Clermont (Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Treasury Board) Liberal: "Mr. Speaker, the site of the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory near Penticton, British Columbia was chosen about 15 years ago for its freedom from man-made radio interference, a requirement for the detection and study of the extremely weak radio signals from astronomical objects...The government of British Columbia, by order-in-council, placed a map reserve on all Crown land within a much larger buffer zone surrounding the site. It was not envisioned that large-scale housing developments would ever be built in the region..."
The Arboretum near Dow's Lake covers an area of approximately 14.3 hectares. This area is part of the Greenway System Corridor and includes several woodland areas, two watercourses referred to as the Rideau Canal Tributaries , a wetland near the Canal, and several gardens including the Fletcher Wildlife Garden.(From: City of Ottawa Department of Urban Planning and Public Works, June 14,1999.) (Widening the City of Ottawa-owned Prince of Wales Drive will infringe upon the Arboretum---the Arboretum is located on 64 acres of rolling land between POW Drive and the Rideau Canal system-savecfbrockcliffe.)
Dominion Observatory buildings that are facing demolition:
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| Seismology Survey |
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| Machine Shop |
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| Observatory House |
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| Photo Equatorial |
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| South Azimuth |
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| Geophysical Laboratory |
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| Dominion Observatory |
(Reposting)
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| Classified and Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings |
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