{"id":11839,"date":"2011-10-29T12:20:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T16:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11839"},"modified":"2019-07-18T09:19:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T13:19:23","slug":"canadian-air-and-space-museum-to-be-evicted-in-favour-of-ice-rinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/10\/29\/canadian-air-and-space-museum-to-be-evicted-in-favour-of-ice-rinks\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Air and Space Museum to be evicted in favour of ice rinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sad tale at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/story\/2011\/10\/29\/toronto-downsview-dehavilland.html\" target=\"_blank\">CBC website<\/a> about the impending eviction of the museum and other tenants of the historic (but not historically designated) DeHavilland plant in Downsview:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A building that played a major role in the production of aircraft for the Allies in their fight against Hitler during the Second World War is facing the wrecking ball.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s located in Toronto&#8217;s Downsview Park and is described in federal heritage documents simply as &#8220;CFB Plant .1, Building .1.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just one month after the federal government celebrated Canada&#8217;s aviation history by reintroducing the name, &#8220;Royal Canadian Air Force,&#8221; it was sending an eviction notice to a building where RCAF planes were assembled.<\/p>\n<p>Built in 1929, the plant housed the operations of the de Havilland Aircraft company which provided 17 per cent of Canada&#8217;s planes during the war years.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>David Soknacki, the chairman of Parc Downsview Park, says the building at 65 Carl Hall Road is not currently classified as a heritage building.<\/p>\n<p>Up until Oct. 26., the Canada&#8217;s Historic Places website listed the facility as &#8220;a recognized Federal Heritage Building because of its historical associations and its architectural and environmental value.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then the listing disappeared.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to Michael O&#8217;Connor Clarke for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sad tale at the CBC website about the impending eviction of the museum and other tenants of the historic (but not historically designated) DeHavilland plant in Downsview: A building that played a major role in the production of aircraft for the Allies in their fight against Hitler during the Second World War is facing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,44,15,230],"tags":[123,1298,207],"class_list":["post-11839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-history","category-space-science","category-technology","category-ww2","tag-aircraft","tag-museum","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-34X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49726,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11839\/revisions\/49726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}