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Here, reproduced under the Fair Dealing provisions (§29) of the Copyright Act from today’s Globe and Mail is an article About A new Navy monument in Ottawa, being built to commemorate the Naval Centennial in 2010:
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http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Ottawa+navy+monument/1195677/story.html
Ottawa to get $2M navy monument
NCC expected to OK historic Richmond Landing for memorial in honour of service’s centennial
BY RANDY BOSWELL, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
JANUARY 20, 2009
OTTAWA — The federal government is set to approve construction of a $2-million monument celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Canadian navy at a storied site in downtown Ottawa, just upstream from Parliament Hill next to the new Canadian War Museum.
The monument, to be built next year in honour of the 1910 beginnings of a Canadian naval force independent of British control, is being developed by the naval branch of the Canadian Forces and the National Capital Commission.
The project was approved in September by the NCC’s board of directors, but neither the design nor location of the planned monument have been disclosed. Further details are expected to be announced Thursday at the NCC’s next public meeting.
But a Canadian Forces document listing activities planned for the navy’s centennial has already revealed that Richmond Landing — the place where, 200 years ago, all Ottawa River boat traffic came ashore — has been chosen as the showcase site.
Paul Seguna, public affairs officer for the Canadian Naval Centennial Project, confirmed Monday that Richmond Landing is the navy’s preferred location for the monument and that the NCC is poised to approve it this week.
Although the monument won’t be completed until 2011, a model is expected to be unveiled at the site on May 4, 2010 — 100 years to the day after the navy’s controversial creation under then-prime minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
On the same day, a special centennial ship’s bell is to be presented to the people of Canada at a Parliament Hill ceremony featuring “waters from Canada’s three oceans, the Great Lakes and an area of international maritime operations” collected by Canadian navy ships.
The centennial celebrations will actually begin a year early, kicked off this June with a visit to Vancouver by Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex, and Countess Sophie.
There, the royals will unveil a ship’s mast commemorating Canada’s navy at Prospect Point in Stanley Park.
In July, the colonial roots of the Canadian navy will be recalled at a ceremony marking the 250th anniversary of the Halifax dockyard.
Having a Conservative federal government presiding over the navy’s centennial celebrations should produce some moments rich with historical irony.
Laurier’s push to create an independent Canadian naval force in 1910 — rather than contribute cash to a pre-First World War buildup of the British navy — was hailed by Liberals at the time as a major advance in Canadian nationhood, but was bitterly opposed by Robert Borden, leader of the opposition Conservatives, who supported a strengthening of ties with the mother country and stronger Canadian support for Britain’s maritime defence.
Quebec nationalists, convinced that any major naval investment by Canada was essentially a gift to the British, also condemned Laurier’s scheme.
The Canadian navy was born with the passage of the Naval Service Act on May 4, 1910, but the controversy surrounding it helped torpedo Laurier’s Liberal government in a 1911 election that saw Borden become prime minister and his Conservative government take Canada into the First World War.
Canwest News Service
© Copyright (c) The Ottawa Citizen
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Does anyone know exactly where the monument will be? In/around Laroche Park or will it be on the War Museum’s property, close to the bend in Vimy Road?
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http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Ottawa+navy+monument/1195677/story.html
Ottawa to get $2M navy monument
NCC expected to OK historic Richmond Landing for memorial in honour of service’s centennial
BY RANDY BOSWELL, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
JANUARY 20, 2009
OTTAWA — The federal government is set to approve construction of a $2-million monument celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Canadian navy at a storied site in downtown Ottawa, just upstream from Parliament Hill next to the new Canadian War Museum.
The monument, to be built next year in honour of the 1910 beginnings of a Canadian naval force independent of British control, is being developed by the naval branch of the Canadian Forces and the National Capital Commission.
The project was approved in September by the NCC’s board of directors, but neither the design nor location of the planned monument have been disclosed. Further details are expected to be announced Thursday at the NCC’s next public meeting.
But a Canadian Forces document listing activities planned for the navy’s centennial has already revealed that Richmond Landing — the place where, 200 years ago, all Ottawa River boat traffic came ashore — has been chosen as the showcase site.
Paul Seguna, public affairs officer for the Canadian Naval Centennial Project, confirmed Monday that Richmond Landing is the navy’s preferred location for the monument and that the NCC is poised to approve it this week.
Although the monument won’t be completed until 2011, a model is expected to be unveiled at the site on May 4, 2010 — 100 years to the day after the navy’s controversial creation under then-prime minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
On the same day, a special centennial ship’s bell is to be presented to the people of Canada at a Parliament Hill ceremony featuring “waters from Canada’s three oceans, the Great Lakes and an area of international maritime operations” collected by Canadian navy ships.
The centennial celebrations will actually begin a year early, kicked off this June with a visit to Vancouver by Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex, and Countess Sophie.
There, the royals will unveil a ship’s mast commemorating Canada’s navy at Prospect Point in Stanley Park.
In July, the colonial roots of the Canadian navy will be recalled at a ceremony marking the 250th anniversary of the Halifax dockyard.
Having a Conservative federal government presiding over the navy’s centennial celebrations should produce some moments rich with historical irony.
Laurier’s push to create an independent Canadian naval force in 1910 — rather than contribute cash to a pre-First World War buildup of the British navy — was hailed by Liberals at the time as a major advance in Canadian nationhood, but was bitterly opposed by Robert Borden, leader of the opposition Conservatives, who supported a strengthening of ties with the mother country and stronger Canadian support for Britain’s maritime defence.
Quebec nationalists, convinced that any major naval investment by Canada was essentially a gift to the British, also condemned Laurier’s scheme.
The Canadian navy was born with the passage of the Naval Service Act on May 4, 1910, but the controversy surrounding it helped torpedo Laurier’s Liberal government in a 1911 election that saw Borden become prime minister and his Conservative government take Canada into the First World War.
Canwest News Service
© Copyright (c) The Ottawa Citizen
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Does anyone know exactly where the monument will be? In/around Laroche Park or will it be on the War Museum’s property, close to the bend in Vimy Road?
