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Dedicated to Preserving Our Built Heritage September 2015 Volume 42, No. 3 Heritage News Now Special Issue: Ottawa’s Rural and Suburban Heritage Village of Richmond to Celebrate its 200th Heritage Ottawa and the Anniversary Richmond was surveyed in 1818, for the Pinhey’s Point Foundation soldiers who cut the Richmond Road from Lebreton Flats to Richmond. Richmond Welcome You to South March today is currently surrounded by farmed fields which will be consumed one day by By Bruce S. Elliott new subdivisions that are already in the planning stages. New subdivisions beckon But the failures are as instructive city folk to move out to the country, and Heritage Ottawa’s 2015 Bob and with them comes shopping centres and Mary Anne Phillips Memorial as the successes. It is home to a other shops built to sustain the influx. Heritage Forum, the first to focus on community-conscious architectural Richmond’s 200th Anniversary in 2018 partnership, Vandenberg & is approaching and this is the time to rural and suburban issues, is hosted celebrate its heritage before all is lost. by the Pinhey’s Point Foundation. Wildeboer, who will speak about This is an all-day event that takes their village and rural infill work. place on Saturday, September 26 at And South March is only seven St John’s Anglican Church at 325 minutes north of renowned Sandhill Road in South March. developer William Teron’s landmark \ St John’s is a heritage designated Beaverbrook subdivision (the first building with historic cemetery. neighbourhood of his early 1960s There will be presentations on a Kanata new town), currently seeking variety of subjects, lunch-time tours, heritage conservation district status exhibits, and an optional bus tour of as a way of preserving its distinctive Beaverbrook at the end of the day. character and closeness to nature. This day of events in and around While our rural communities are There is a committee of volunteers of the South March is intended as a mutual Richmond Village Community Association facing development pressures as learning exercise, an opportunity to which is making plans for the event suburban growth proceeds apace, Hopefully the City of Ottawa will assist in the raise issues and discuss problems, and existing suburbs struggle to preserve celebrations as well. The next committee explore examples and best practices. meeting will be held at the Goulbourn streetscapes and low-rise buildings Museum, 7 pm on October 23, 2015. As a crossroads hamlet now flanked of heritage character in the face of For more information on the celebration by new subdivisions, South March intensification pressures that all too check out this webpage from time to exemplifies many of the challenges often conflict with the ideals of the time, as it will be updated as plans move facing our rural communities. It has National Trust for Canada’s traditional forward: http://www.richmondvillage. main street program. The demolition ca/2018_committee/ some brilliant public and private sector examples of the adaptive reuse last year of the remains of the 1863 Karen Prytula, Heritage Ottawa board member of heritage structures. It also has McMurtry tannery building reminded and Heritage Keeper for Goulbourn Township Photo: Karen Prytula Karen Photo: experienced regrettable losses. us that key elements of the provincial 1 South March cont’d. heritage toolkit, such as the City’s Registration fee). You can also mail a heritage reference list, have not caught up cheque with “Heritage Forum” in the Heritage Ottawa is a non-profit with the expanded boundaries of 2001. subject line, along with your name, organization dedicated to the address, email and/or telephone The event runs from 9:00 am to preservation of Ottawa’s built heritage. number: Heritage Ottawa, 2 Daly 6:00 pm. Parking at St. John’s Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1N 6E2. For Linda Hoad Anglican is free. The church can also more information, please contact info@ Editor be reached by public transit on OC heritageottawa.org, or call 613-230- Jan Soetermans Transpo Route # 93. Event space is 8841. We look forward to seeing you Graphic Designer limited so pre-registration is required. on September 26! The registration fee is $20.00 per Katari Imaging person, which includes a catered lunch After the Beaverbrook tour, we suggest Printing and refreshments during the day. you dine in one of the local restaurants. Heritage Ottawa You can pre-register for the Heritage Or you may choose to visit the Carp 2 Daly Avenue Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6E2 Forum online using Heritage Ottawa’s Fair, where country performers George website donation page to make a Canyon and opening act Blackwell are Tel: 613-230-8841 $20 payment to Heritage Ottawa via on stage at 8:00 pm. Fax: 613-564-4428 Email: [email protected] Paypal. Please enter “Heritage Forum” Web: www.heritageottawa.org in the donation details area. (Please Bruce S. Elliott is a professor at Carleton note that charitable receipts will not University and author of many studies David Jeanes be issued for the $20 Heritage Forum President on Ottawa and area history. Leslie Maitland Past-President and Guest Editor Mike Steinhauer The Central Experimental Farm Vice-President Operations National Historic Site of Canada Linda Hoad By Leslie Maitland Vice-President Programs Anne Maheux No discussion of Ottawa’s rural cross-contamination with other farms. Treasurer heritage would be complete without This piece of land is the best-known Louise Fox a few words about the city’s – and and best-studied agricultural land in Secretary the nation’s – most significant rural Canada (and possibly the world). property, the Central Experimental (vacant) So what is Ottawa going to do with Farm (CEF). Established in 1886 Legal Consultant this legacy? There is a proposal to under the government of Sir John A. Danielle Jones carve off sixty acres (fully 10 percent Macdonald, the CEF has been and Website of the lands available for research) and remains an internationally significant Directors: pave it over with a hospital. Hospitals agricultural research institution, whose Jay Baltz, Doug Beaton, are good things, but other sites are many discoveries have significantly Richard Belliveau, Richard Cannings available. Katherine Charbonneau, advanced food security for Canadians, Linda Dicaire, Ken Elder, and underpinned our role as an Heritage Ottawa has joined with Ian Ferguson, Danielle Jones, agricultural powerhouse in the world. others to oppose this damage Robert Martin, Heather McArthur, The farm was once on the outskirts to a national historic site and Hunter McGill, Karen Prytula, of tiny, nineteenth century Ottawa, internationally significant research Carolyn Quinn, Vinni Sahni, institution. Nicole Sammut, Katherine Spencer-Ross. but now the city has grown out to surround it. Which in some respects, For more on the CEF, see the News Heritage Ottawa acknowledges the has bolstered the Farm’s scientific financial support of the City of Section of Heritage Ottawa’s website. usefulness: being isolated from any Ottawa and the Ontario Ministry of Culture other farmland, experiments can Leslie Maitland be conducted there without fear of Past-President, Heritage Ottawa 2 Celebrating Our Rural Heritage: the Hobbs Farm and the Anderson Farm By Karen Prytula Rural settlement in Goulbourn Township, now part of Ottawa began around 1818 when the soldiers who had fought in the War of 1812 were disbanded. The British government offered the soldiers free grants of land if they agreed to settle in Upper-Canada, including Goulbourn Township. The soldiers settled on their land, first building fairly primitive huts to protect themselves from the elements while they cleared land and planted crops. A more Hobbs Keith Photos: substantial structure, such as a log The Hobbs Farm; a piece of our Ottawa Valley heritage snuggled into a piece of home, followed later. Ottawa’s countryside. and the village of Richmond will Caldwell built on the land. The be celebrating its 200th Anniversary original log building of 1825 was in of Settlement in 2018. This article poor shape, given that it was roofless, will examine two of the area’s oldest and by now had a large tree growing farmsteads, the Hobbs Farm, and up through the middle of it. This was the Anderson Farm, which are both not a deterrent for them, and Joshua representative of the processes of removed the tree, roofed the structure homesteading in what is now rural and stuccoed the interior walls. The Ottawa and area. farm prospered, their Guernsey dairy The future home of Maude Caldwell herd were prize winners at local fall Hobbs’ house, drawn on the backside of a Hobbs Farm fairs, and their cereal crops and swine piece of used paper. won competitions as well. Those old The Hobbs farm, located at 7542 log walls are now about 190 years New waves of settlers followed: Irish, Mansfield Road (formerly known old, and they still exist under newer Scottish, British, and a few French. as Concession IV, lot 12 east, siding. Modern additions were added Through various plans (societies, Goulbourn Township, is in rural over the years to support a growing British proclamation, Peter Robinson) Ottawa between Richmond and family, and outbuildings changed, or on their own, they too received Stittsville, and close to Munster such as the addition of a garage for free land. The soldiers and the Hamlet). It celebrated its 150th the automobile of the twentieth pioneers settled all up and down the Anniversary in 2010. The original century. Descendants of Joshua and concessions of land in the township. owner in 1825 was James Cullen but Maude still maintain the farmstead. th Barns and other out buildings he left his land before finishing his For the 2010 150 Anniversary followed, animals acquired, and rough-hewn log house; James Hobbs Celebrations, guests were invited to families grew.