Councillor Wants Ward Name to Go
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Community Voice - November 12, 2020 1 Free consultations. No fees until we settle. Disability insurance denials, car crashes, wrongful dismissal, slip and fall accidents and medical malpractice. Call today 613-599-3535 or www.gironeslawyers.com You have nothing to lose and so much to gain. Your STITTSVILLE CommunityVoice & RICHMOND November 12, 2020 [email protected] 613-45-VOICE www.ottawavoice.ca [email protected] Vol. 3 No. 22 Community Councillor wants champions wanted for ward name to go BY JOHN CURRY Main Street The Rideau-Goulbourn ward boundary will soon be re- BY JOHN CURRY drawn and if Coun. Scott Moffatt gets his way the name AND PATRICK UGUCCIONI Goulbourn could disappear altogether. Moffatt has signaled he wants the name change in time Stittsville Coun. Glen for the 2022 municipal election because he has recently Gower will be looking to uncovered that the former township’s namesake was a community champions slave owner. to take the revitalization The name dates back to Henry Goulburn, a British states- of Stittsville Main Street man whom the councillor also has discovered has no close across the finish line. connection to the area. An idea born on the Moffatt learned of this while researching for one of his campaign trail two years regular podcasts on Oct. 31 where he dealt with the origins ago evolved into a dis- of the name Goulbourn. cussion paper this past “There simply wasn’t enough good to balance against the January outlining cur- bad to deserve keeping the name in the present and the fu- rent challenges and ideas ture,” he told Your Community Voice, arguing a ward name for the traditional main change “ensures the current ward isn’t promoting a name street. that isn’t worth promoting.” The councillor’s goal In his 42-minute podcast entitled “A Troubling Discovery was to further engage Calls for a Name Change in Rideau-Goulbourn,” Moffatt the community, generate notes that Henry Goulburn is sometimes referred to as a “re- ideas and identify stake- luctant slave owner” and a “slave owner with a conscience.” holders and volunteers “At the end of the day he was still a slave owner,” Moffatt who would participate concludes. in future planning and John Curry photos He also discounts Goulburn’s historical significance and advocacy. The Goulbourn name is attached not only to the Rideau-Goulbourn ward name but also can connection to this area. be found used in reference to several other local places including a street in Stittsville which PLEASE SEE MAIN, PAGE 16 is specifically named after slave owner Henry Goulburn. PLEASE SEE NAME, PAGE 14 Contact information (613) 692-3331 [email protected] www.PierreMP.ca PierrePoilievreMP @PierrePoilievre PierrePoilievreMP 2 November 12, 2020 - Community Voice News Extendicare drops retail, office mix We’re taking at planned long term care centre BY JOHN CURRY and orders for 2021 PATRICK UGUCCIONI Extendicare has dropped Spring tree planting! a two-storey office and re- tail building as part of a pro- posed four-storey, 256-bed Sign up for a long term care facility im- mediately east of the existing FREE site visit Wellings of Stittsville facility Artist rendering on Hazeldean Road. A four-storey, 256-bed long term care facility is being A revised site plan also proposed by Extendicare on Hazeldean Road in Stittsville. abandons underground parking in favour of a 120- pointing out he will be look- courtyard. The primary en- space surface lot. ing for Extendicare to move trance will be at the rear of Stittsville Coun. Glen back to the original design. the proposed complex with Are you a landowner with one or Gower told this newspaper The Stittsville location vehicular access via Wellings more acres looking to reforest your Contact the revised version is not as will become Extendicare’s Private. The existing zoning empty and idle land? Dan Cooper good as the original. sixth long term care home for the site allows a residen- 613-692-3571 or He thinks the original ver- in Ottawa. The Hazeldean tial care facility Planting with Rideau Valley Conservation 1-800-267-3504 sion provided a better inter- site was purchased from A virtual public informa- Authority is low-cost and full-service. It includes ext. 1124 face with Hazeldean Road Nautical Lands Group in tion meeting to discuss site visits, planting plans, site prep, tree planting, [email protected] and he does not favour 2015. Nautical built and op- the revised site plan will be follow-ups, and maintenance for only $0.15/tree, the surface lot over under- erates the adjacent Stittsville held on Monday, Nov. 23 at or $120/acre. You must be willing to plant at In partnership with: ground parking. of Wellings facility. 4 p.m. Look for the link on Mississippi Valley least 1,000 trees. Call us! “They have changed the The new building, if ap- Coun. 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