Part of a letter from Heritage Ottawa to the National Capital Commission, October 8, 2024: "Can one imagine our Capital region without its network of scenic parkways? How about our Ottawa River shoreline without the linear riverfront parks and parkways? Or the Rideau Canal without the iconic Queen Elizabeth and Colonel By Driveways that frame/embrace the UNESCO World Heritage Site that is the Canal? It is virtually impossible..."
"The parkways of course did not appear by accident. They are here thanks largely to the foresight of visionaries like Frederick Todd, Herbert Holt and Jacques Greber, who all realized the need for parks for urban residents and the importance of the links with nature offered by the parkways."
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| Reposting. From 2019. |
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