House of Commons Ottawa September 20, 1968: MP Lloyd Francis (Carleton-Ottawa West) "Mr. Speaker, the National Capital Commission is not responsible for providing the health, recreation, traffic engineering, street maintenance and other services that the city of Ottawa provides...I invite hon. members of this house, especially the new members, to drive along the magnificent western parkway which has just been created by the national capital commission. Drive west along the parkway from it's junction on Wellington Street to its termination on Carling Avenue, and then turn around and come back. As you approach Wellington Street from the west, you will pass beside Nepean bay which has been substantially beautified by the national capital commission's efforts. Look ahead and you will see Ottawa's skyline."
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"De pave the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway." "Remove all vehicles from the scenic parkways." "Reserve the Queen Elizabeth Driveway for active transportation." "Convert the Queen Elizabeth Driveway to a park." Donate Prince of Wales Drive on the Farm to the city of Ottawa.
Proposed NCC policy aims to put the park back in parkway by Don Butler, Ottawa Citizen, May 2014: "The National Capital Commission is developing a new policy for its scenic parkways that will give priority to accommodating pedestrians and cyclists rather than automobiles. The proposal is aiming for a shift in paradigm, putting the park back into the parkway...The parkways should not be viewed as commuter routes. When completed next year the Capital Urban Lands Master Plan will be the first such plan covering federally owned parkways, riverbanks and employment areas such as Tunney's Pasture and Confederation Heights and the Central Experimental Farm."
House of Commons Ottawa May 15, 1970 MP Duncan Gordon Blair (Grenville-Carleton) Liberal: "I would like to direct a question to the Acting Prime Minister, and I regret that I was not able to give him notice. Is the government aware of a statement or statements to the press by the Chairman of the National Capital Commission to the effect that he might close the national capital parkways for a week for the strange purpose of proving their importance in carrying traffic?
"The second part of my question is whether the Acting Prime Minister can assure the House that the government will not permit the people of this area to be inconvenienced by the disruption that this extraordinary and senseless experiment would cause?"
Hon. G.J. McIlraith (Solicitor General of Canada; Acting Prime Minister) Liberal: "The statement has caused concern. I am very doubtful that the Chairman of the commission has any such authority under the National Capital Act passed by this Parliament."
NCC driveways in 1969-1970
- Ottawa River
- Rideau River
- Western Parkway
- Eastern Parkway
- Colonel By Drive
- Airport Parkway
- Philemon Wright - Hull
- Parkways in Gatineau Park
- Lac de fee
- Promenade des Voyageurs
- Ottawa River
- Eastern Parkway
- Western Parkway
- Colonel By
- Eastern Driveway
- Eastern Ottawa River Parkway
- Queen Elizabeth
- Rockcliffe Park Driveway
- Island Park
- Experimental Farm Drive
- Other parkways.
- Voyageur
- Gatineau
- Fairy Lake Parkway
- Secteur Fournier
- Other parkways.
- 450 km2 of land in Gatineau Park and the Greenbelt
- 15 urban parks and greenspaces including the Confederation, Vincent Massey, Major's Hill and Jacques-Cartier parks.
- 106 km of parkways
- more than 200 km of recreational pathways
- 40 bridges including the Champlain and Portage interprovincial bridges
- 1,664 properties
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