1.) The designation UNESCO World Heritage Site will be removed from the Rideau Canal and the Kingston Fortifications, if the following projects are undertaken:
- An Ottawa Hospital campus on the Experimental Farm
- The Chateau Laurier proposed expansion (Ottawa)
- The former Davis Tannery Brownfield Site Redevelopment (Kingston)
- Rideau Canal Crossing pedestrian bridge (Ottawa)
- Rideau Marina redevelopment (Kingston)
- Third Bridge Crossing (Kingston)
- Highway 417 bridge rehabilitation (Ottawa)
- Various Federal Infrastructure Investment projects along the length of the Rideau Canal World Heritage property. (Information is from "State of Conservation Report, Rideau Canal, May of 2018.") The Kingston Fortifications are Fort Henry, Fort Frederick, the Murney Tower, Shoal Tower and Cathcart Tower.
2.) "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." (1959 Report of the Ottawa Improvement Commission, page 126/238.)
3.)House of Commons Ottawa May 13, 1988 The Hon. John Wise (Minister of Agriculture): "Next to the Parliament Buildings, the Experimental Farm is the second most popular tourist attraction here in Ottawa."
4.) Urban Design Review Panel, March 1,2018. 930 Carling Avenue and 520 Preston Avenue. "The Panel is concerned with the scale of the proposed development and finds that the project is of a completely different scale than the surrounding neighbourhood...Another important consideration of the Panel is the impact of the hospital on Carling Road, and the Carling-Preston neighbourhood."
5.) House of Commons Ottawa June 18, 1958 The Hon. George McIlraith (Ottawa West): "Mr. Chairman, I wonder if the Minister is now prepared to make the statement he said he would make concerning the policy of the government with respect to building on the central experimental farm?"
Hon. Howard Charles Green (Minister of Public Works): "The policy is that no buildings will be built on the central experimental farm except buildings for the Department of Agriculture."
Mr. McIlraith: "If I may pursue the first question a bit further, has the Minister come to any conclusion as to what will be done with the land on the farm now occupied by the temporary buildings when they are removed?"
Mr. Green: "I take it that the hon. member for Ottawa West refers to temporary buildings No. 5 and 8. For some years the policy has been that when these temporary buildings are torn down nothing will be constructed on the site."
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| Temporary building location #5 became the Dow's Lake parking lot. And the #8 location became Queen Juliana Park. An Eric Darwin photo. |
6.) "The Central Experimental Farm should remain an open area in perpetuity." (A March 19, 1954 Privy Council Order in Council that was signed by Prime Minister Louis St-Laurent.)
7.) The Dominion Observatory campus will be demolished:"On this site we have at least 24 buildings, including Buildings 1 to 9, the Natural Resources Campus including the Dominion Observatory. Also Building 49, William Saunders. And Building 20, K.W. Neatby and Oilseed Research Centre."
"Extensive demolition or relocation of buildings is required for the new build to proceed." (From: 'New Civic Campus. A 21st century hospital in the heart of Canada's Capital.' April of 2016, page 10/76.)
8.) " Concerned about ballooning costs, Poilievre wants hospital site revisited." An Ottawa Citizen article by Elizabeth Payne, March 29, 2017. "You've got a sloped surface, an irregular shape, contaminated land and you are building on a fault line. All of these things combined may lead to an extraordinary price tag and if that's true then we should know about it before we put shovels in the ground."
In the House of Commons MP Pierre Poilievre had many questions about the Civic Hospital move--- see my blog entry "Concerned about ballooning costs, Poilievre wants hospital site revisited." November 21, 2021.
