Upper Canada's First Parliament Buildings

[Cindy Wilkey (ISAC)]

This just in from Rollo Myers:

 

Here is a link to the Ontario Heritage Trust page on the First Parliament Site initiative: 

 

http://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/Conservation/Museums/Parliament.aspx

 

 

For those of you who were not able to attend Minister Chan's announcement last week, over 200 people showed up to hear about provincial support for events commemorating the 200 year anniversary of the war of 1812.

 

There is still work to be done to bring the whole First Parliament Site into public ownership, but this is a very important step along the way.  Much appreciation is due to people like Rollo Myers and Edward Nixon, to name only two of the many, who have worked over many years to make the FPS a public resource.

 

Cindy

 

Cynthia Wilkey

 

Chair, West Don Lands Committee

c/o Income Security Advocacy Centre

425 Adelaide St. W., 5th Floor

Toronto ON M5V 3C1

 

Tel: 416 597-5820 x5152

Fax: 416 597-5821

[danp]

 

- thanks for the link!

 

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[Francine Barry]

Good grief, is this the best we can do?  It looks like a warehouse or a Staples outlet.  Pathetic.  I'm so embarrassed. 
 
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[Gmail]

I'm not exactly blown away by this either. All this handwringing and angst for this over years now, and this is what we get?

Cheers

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[Keith Nunn]

I'm assuming that this is all that's possible before the 2012 celebrations. I certainly hope this is not the end of the story.

Keith

[Cindy Wilkey (ISAC)]

Keith is correct. 

 

This is an interim condition that will keep attention on the site.  We still have to keep up the pressure to get the last piece of the site brought into public ownership and to keep the City and Library Board interested in the proposal to use the site as a combined regional library and heritage centre.

 

BTW - the image of the former Porsche Dealership dressed up with the red panels was not that well received...there will be some kind of advisory group set up to work on the details for the opening of the interim location in 2012.

 

Cindy

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[Larry Webb]

Thanks Cindy.

 

And to add my sense from being at the announcement is that this is mainly intended to raise public awareness as much as anything else; this was expressed in either slightly or wholly indirect terms from almost all of the speakers.  Glen Murray told a story of a colleague going to show someone the site of the First Parliament Building and taking a cab there and having to point the cabbie to the car rental place which is exactly where they got out.  There was nothing else to say what significance this site holds.

 

So while I agree that it is decidedly temporary and decidedly unimaginative, lets look to the larger goal of wresting the balance of the site, right over to Parliament Street, out of private hands.  Public awareness will be a powerful tool in that campaign.

 

Cheers, L

 

Larry Webb, PMP

Laurence J. Webb Associates
c: (416) 508-1291
e: la...@webbpro.ca

 

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From: cork...@googlegroups.com [mailto:cork...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cindy Wilkey (ISAC)
Sent: June-29-11 2:04 PM
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[Lee]

Hiya - so by this:

>We still have to keep up the pressure to get the last piece of the site
> brought into public ownership and to keep the City and Library Board
> interested in the proposal to use the site as a combined regional
> library and heritage centre.

Are you including the area that the carwash is on now? (I thought this
was the official location of the actual parliament building, yes?)
I.e. Where there's a billboard announcing the proposal for a
monstrosity of a condo development? (Please, please, please tell me
that isn't going to happen!!!)

Lee.

On Jun 29, 2:03 pm, "Cindy Wilkey (ISAC)" <wilk...@lao.on.ca> wrote:
> Keith is correct.  
>
> This is an interim condition that will keep attention on the site.  We
> still have to keep up the pressure to get the last piece of the site
> brought into public ownership and to keep the City and Library Board
> interested in the proposal to use the site as a combined regional
> library and heritage centre.
>
> BTW - the image of the former Porsche Dealership dressed up with the red
> panels was not that well received...there will be some kind of advisory
> group set up to work on the details for the opening of the interim
> location in 2012.
>
> Cindy
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: cork...@googlegroups.com [mailto:cork...@googlegroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Keith Nunn
> Sent: June 29, 2011 10:13 AM
> To: cork...@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Corktown] Upper Canada's First Parliament Buildings
>
> I'm assuming that this is all that's possible before the 2012
> celebrations. I certainly hope this is not the end of the story.
>
> Keith
>

> On 29 June 2011 09:33, Gmail <cbhutche...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>         I'm not exactly blown away by this either. All this handwringing
> and angst for this over years now, and this is what we get?
>
>         Cheers
>
>         Chris
>
>         Chris Hutcheson Fine Art Photography
>         109 Trinity Street
>         Toronto, Ontario   M5A 3C7
>
>         416.368.3664
>         SKYPE chrishutcheson
>

>        www.chrishutcheson.com<http://chrishutcheson.com>
>         <http://chrishutcheson.com> blog.chrishutcheson.com

>
>         From: Francine Barry <airhead...@hotmail.com>
>         Reply-To: <cork...@googlegroups.com>
>         Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 09:26:25 -0400
>         To: <cork...@googlegroups.com>
>         Subject: [Corktown] Upper Canada's First Parliament Buildings
>
>         Good grief, is this the best we can do?  It looks like a
> warehouse or a Staples outlet.  Pathetic.  I'm so embarrassed.
>
>         Corktown Crone
>
>         Here is a link to the Ontario Heritage Trust page on the First
> Parliament Site initiative:  
>
> http://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/Conservation/Museums/Parliament.aspx
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[Larry Webb]

Yes, the carwash! The land is in private hands. They have things they can
do "as of right" which virtually no-one would have power to stop. However,
that would not bring them real value for their land and so is highly
unlikely to happen. The condo they have proposed would never get approved
for many reasons - it is most likely a ploy to get as high a potential
land-value as is possible in the negotiations that are on-going and will
continue.

So please understand that there are many people with a lot of influence
working hard to make sure that the land ends up in its rightful use. It's a
long and complicated process, and this interpretation centre announced last
week is but one step along the way, but an important one. It demonstrates
publicly that all three levels of government are on-side with the groups and
residents who have been fighting for the right outcome.

Don't panic. Keep informed. And please lend a hand or your voice when it
is asked for - public meetings etc.

Thanks, L

Larry Webb, PMP
Laurence J. Webb Associates
c: (416) 508-1291
e: la...@webbpro.ca

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[Cindy Wilkey (ISAC)]

That, indeed, is the third part of the FPS. The archaeological dig was on that property.

There will be a public meeting about that monstrosity. Please attend, when it is announced, and make your view known....

Lee.

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