MacDonald Gardens: A Study in Community Heritage

Photo by Susan Ross

Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - 19:00 to 20:00

BEFORE AND AFTER FREDERICK TODD

The park at the centre of Macdonald Gardens commemorates the graveyards of four congregations from 1845 to 1873.

This lecture will reveal how landscape architect Frederick Todd designed the park as part of capital landscape planning in 1912, while 1970s urban renewal reshaped the larger community. Today this evolving neighbourhood in Lowertown East remains a uniquely diverse illustration of the city’s landscape, housing and institutional history.

 

Speaker(s): 

Susan Ross, Architect and Professor, Carleton University

Victoria Ellis, MA, Heritage Conservation, Carleton University

Nancy Miller Chenier, Co-Chair, Lowertown Community Association Heritage Committee

 

The Lecture is free and there is no need to pre-register. 

 

Address: 
Auditorium, Ottawa Public Library
120 Metcalfe Street
Ottawa, ON K1P 5M2
Canada