The park at the centre of Macdonald Gardens commemorates the graveyards of four congregations from 1845 to 1873. This lecture will reveal how landscape architect Frederick Todd designed the park as part of capital landscape planning in 1912, and how 1970s urban renewal reshaped the larger community. Today this evolving neighbourhood in Lowertown East remains a uniquely diverse illustration of the citys landscape, housing and institutional history.

Speakers: Victoria Ellis, MA (Heritage Conservation), Carleton University, Susan Ross, architect and professor, Carleton University, and Nancy Miller Chenier, Co-chair and historian, Lowertown Community Association Heritage Committee.

Info : www.heritageottawa.org or 613.230.8841 or info@heritageottawa.org