The Year in Review the Proposed CHUM Tower
Established in 1967 Winter 1999 Celebrating our 30th year Volume 25, No. 4 Dedicated to Preserving Our Built Heritage CHUM now has City support to The President’s Report — erect its enormous tower in the Bytown Market. Visually offensive, The Year in Review monstrously out of scale, destruc- tive of the heritage integrity of this By Carolyn Quinn designated Heritage District, and, we now know, unnecessary for its This past year has been a busy one for sector company Eau Vive, who provided stated broadcast purposes. both canoe and boatman. Six other Heritage Ottawa. The organization has Byward Market resident John informative and unique tours kept partici- successfully fulfilled its mandate to edu- Edwards has been following the pants returning for more! cate and inform residents and visitors of curious twisted story and submits A special thank you goes out to all the city’s valuable heritage buildings and this probe of the strange goings-on. districts. The armchair and walking tours the intrepid volunteer guides who con- exposed many to the benefits of heritage tribute so much to the success of these conservation practice, however, our valuable tours: John Leaning, Terry advocacy work has been arguably less deMarsh, Fern Graham, Judy Deegan, The Proposed successful in meeting our preservation Glenn Lockwood, Louisa Coates and goals. Mark Brandt. Thank you one and all!! February and March saw the pre- Heritage Ottawa was also an active CHUM Tower participant in several events celebrating sentation of five instructive and entertain- If Moses Znaimer and CHUM, his the city’s history and heritage including ing slide-shows where topics ranged Toronto-based radio and television con- Heritage Day ceremonies hosted at All from the fascinating landscape history of glomerate, have their way, a 127-foot Saints’ Church in Sandy Hill, Colonel By the Central Experimental Farm by histori- tower, equivalent in height to a 10-storey Day activities and more recently Bytown an Edwinna von Baeyer, to a highly infor- building, will be erected on a squat 2- Days in the Byward Market.
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