kW": $00., ;4*W, . 0:* fileberpmtOttawa, October 11, 1985 1 Vol- 13, No. 9 1 Exhibition board votes to move has already done enough for By JOAN OVER the Ex without helping to finance its relocation. Ex Glebe residents who have board members, on the other battled for years against hand, contend that the fair the noise, traffic congest- doesn't earn enough from ion and unruly behavior acc- yearly profits to finance ompanying the Central Canada the move. Moving expenses Exhibition may soon have have been estimated at $5 cause to rejoice. million. The Ex's board has agreed Although the Lansdowne De- to move the annual summer velopment Advisory Committee fair out of Lansdowne Park (LDAC) had previously asked if the City of Ottawa and that the exhibition consider regional governments will moving by 1988, no date has provide financial assistance been suggested by the board. After voting 19 to 13 to Nor is there any definite stay at Lansdowne Park two proposal for a new site. years ago, exhibition bord City Council, however, has members voted 21 to 2 late approved a joint study with last month to relocate. the board to examine the A major factor prompting future of the Ex and its re- the move is that the fair location needs. has outgrown its 45-acre While acknowledging budg- site at Lansdowne. Ex off- etary restraints and the icials say it will need an need to look at the question area of at least 250 acres of financial assistance very Photo Allison Dingle to move. carefully, Alderman Howard The Central Canada Exhib- Smith said he is "ecstatic" ition now uses Lansdowne about the board's decision without paying any of its to relocate and is "prepared "Killer Whale" installed annual profit to the city. to sympathetically consider Mayor Marion Dewar has been reasonable assistance from at Fourth Ave. quoted as saying that Ottawa the city." Pond ly-incised linear motifs By ALLISON DINGLE which cover the body also A new resident moved into reflect its Haida origins. 520 the Driveway the Glebe on Friday, Septem- Those motifs are themselves ber 27, when "Killer Whale", adapted from a fine example a sculpture by Vancouver ar- of a Haida speaker's staff. Concerned residents meet tist Bill Reid, was unveiled NCC PAGE'2 at the Fourth Avenue Pond by Mrs. John Turner. The cere- the National Capital Comm- mony was attended by Jean By BRIAN JONAH ission and the Local Archit- Pigott, Chairperson of the Since April this year, the ectural Conservation Advis- National Capital Commission, residents in the immediate ory Committee to move the and a number of other digni- area of the "Whyte House" at new units back away from the taries. 520 the Queen Elizabeth Driveway so that they do not The bronze sculpture, ab- Driveway, with the help of detract from the grandeur of out four and a half feet in the Glebe Community Associ- the "Whyte House". This .height and already covered ation, have been attempting pressure has resulted in the by a dark green patina, is to minimize the impact of a reduction of new units from one of an edition of ten proposed condominium devel- fifteen to thirteen. The cast last year and based on opment on the heritage prop- developers have also indic- an eighteen-foot high bronze erty and surrounding area. ated that they have a condi- sculpture installed in June The initial proposal, ten- tional offer from another 1984 at the Vancouver Aquar- dered by Melgro Holdings developer to purchase the ium. Ltd. of Ottawa, was to build "Whyte House" in order to The Glebe's whale rises fifteen new condominium un- convert it into condominiums. out of the pond with a dors- its around the "Whyte House" There is still, however, a al fin and head of awesome and three renovated units concern, particularly among proportions. Its rear fins within the house, which is residents on Broadway Avenue, axe poised on a semi-spher- permitted by the R4-X zoning that the development at the ical base of local stone de- in the area. back of the property will signed to be effective even Due to the fact that the adversely affect their neigh- when the water level is "Whyte House" and the surr- bourhood due to the shading dropped for the winter. The ounding property were desig- caused by high rooflines, dynamic form of the sculpt- nated heritage in 1981, noise and loss of vegetation ure is an expression of the there has been pressure from on the ravine which marks Haida belief that the killer the local residents, the the northern property line. whale is chief of the sea. Glebe Community Association, WHYTE HOUSE PAGE 3 The complex pattern of deep- N EWS from p. 1 NCC sponsors art The work was selected for 30-foot bronze frieze for the site by the NCC's Art Teleglobe Canada. He is WE ARE TRYING TO Advisory Committee to ful- currently in the Queen Char- fill its objectives of em- lotte Islands working on a bellishing the capital with great Haida war canoe for DIG UP BUSINESS IN Canadian art and bringing Expo 86. major works from across the YOUR COMMUNITY! country into the city so Biography that residents can feel a link with the rest of Canada Bill Reid's work is feat- and visitors can find in Ot- ured in many publications tawa an expression of our about northwest coast Indian You don't have to be 65 cultural diversity. art. Doris Shadbolt, a Van- years of age to qualify for a Mature Insured Discount. In greeting guests assemb- couver critic, is working on led for the unveiling, Mrs. a major biography of Reid. Easy financial terms (spread Turner referred to the ten Several years ago the Nat- your payments days she and her husband ional Film Board and the over 12 months with NO INTEREST spent recently with Bill National Museum of Man coll- CHARGED) to Reid visiting Haida villages aborated on a documentary qualified customers. in the Queen Charlotte Isl- film about Bill Reid. It ands. She made an eloquent can be rented from the NFB We can service your plea for the preservation of office at 150 Kent Street complete needs with HOMEOWNER artifacts from this cultur- ("Bill Reid", 1979, 16mm., AUTO, /TENANT, COMMERCIAL ally significant area, as colour, 27 min. 50 sec.). & LIFE Insurance. well as for the preservation Visitors to the Museum of of its forests whose future Man can purchase a handsome is threatened by logging. poster designed by Reid for Reid, who began his career the museum's "Children of as a CBC journalist, was in- the Raven", at a reasonable spired by his own Haida her- price. itage to begin woodcarving The plaster mold from and has also studied jewell- which the 18-foot bronze -ery.Also well-known as a "Killer Whale" was cast has printmaker, he is Canada's been given to the museum and most accomplished northwest will be installed in the new coast sculptor. Museum of Man in Parc Lauri- BIRCHALL INSURANCE Reid has undertaken sever- er, Hull, in 1988. The re- 236-6700 commissions, duced scale of the Glebe's al monumental SUITE 217, 703 BANK ST. acquisition may app- including a 12-foot carving, newest (Bank at Glebe) "The Raven and the First ear timid in comparison to Man" for the Museum of Anth- the original, but its energy ropology at the University and impact are not diminish- of British Columbia, and a ed. WE BUY FINE FURNITURE. CHINA '85 '85 ANTIQUES PRESENTEE PRESENTED PAR BY georgette China gift les LOISIRS D'OTTAWA THE RECREATION BRANCH 24nticfues SECTION DES AINES SENIOR ADULT SECTION and Fine Furniture, China, Gifts et LANSDOWNE LANSDOWNE PARK 525 BANK ST. 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