Ottawa, Canada 



Turning to the North, we find that the movement for park systems and the gen- 

 eral beautification of cities is international. The Government of the Dominion of 

 Canada appointed a commission to prepare a plan for the improvement of its capital 

 city. There are few, if any, inland cities in the world that compare with Ottawa 

 in the extent and picturesque character of the rivers and streams within her boundaries. 

 While a small portion of their shores had already been secured, it was obvious that 

 the public ownership of them should be greatly extended. 



Chief Webster, of the Bureau of Surveys of Philadelphia, in advocating increased 

 park facilities, has carefully estimated that by 1950 Philadelphia will have a population 

 of 3,500,000 people. In the same spirit Mr. Frederick G. Todd, the Landscape 

 Architect of the Commission on the Improvement of Ottawa, said in his Report : 



" It does not require an unreasonable amount of faith to believe that the Ottawa of today 

 is but the infant Ottawa of fifty years hence, and that the end of the present century will 

 see Ottawa grown to such proportions that we of today would hardly recognize it. You 

 may ask, is it reasonable to look so far ahead as one hundred years or more, and to make 

 plans for generations in the distant future ? We have only to study the history of the older 

 cities, and note at what enormous cost they have overcome the lack of provision for their 

 growth, to realize that the future prosperity and beauty of the city depends in a great measure 

 upon the ability to look ahead, and the power to grasp the needs and requirements of the 

 great population it is destined to have." 



For further information, apply to Frederick G. Todd, Esq., Landscape Architect, Renouf 

 Building, Montreal, P. Q. 



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