Monday, October 14, 2024

How to destroy a major landmark and tourist attraction in Ottawa.

  •  Sell 91 acres of the Experimental Farm to the City of Ottawa in 1987, the Baseline-Clyde-Merivale property. Agriculture Minister John Wise never wanted the land sold.
  • Let the National Capital Commission expropriate 60 acres of the Farm and give it to a hospital. This is just the beginning. They will eventually claim the 700 acres they wanted in 1973.
  • Who knows what happened to the $4 million dollar Dows Lake parking lot.
  • Remove the designations National Interest Land Mass, National Historic Site of Canada, Classified Federal Heritage Building, Recognized Federal Heritage Building and Part 1V of the Ontario Heritage Act. Now the Booth Barn, Agriculture Museum, greenhouses, William Saunders Building, Observatory campus and at least 40 other buildings can be pulverized. Apparently "Extensive demolition or relocation of buildings is required for the new build to proceed."
  • Obliterate Queen Juliana Park, a memorial to the 7,600 Canadian soldiers who died during the liberation of the Netherlands in World War 11.
  • Lie to us---tell us that the Sir John Carling Building cafeteria will be preserved. Tell us that the 700 trees will be replaced. Where?
  • Place "Do not enter" and "Private Property" signs at the entrance to Maple Drive/ Carling Avenue and Prince of Wales Drive. 
  • Do not invite King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima to the Tulip Festival when they were visiting Canada. Dutch royalty always visited the Tulip Festival---Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard, Princess Margriet. I inherited photos of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard at Dows Lake in 1968.
  • Turn Commissioners Park into a parking lot or a condo village.

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