Author: Erwin Dreessen

Since 2002, the NCC Board of Directors has been inviting “local interest groups” to make presentations to it to inform the Commission’s strategic planning. The Greenspace Alliance was the first group to respond to the call with a presentation on the proposed Poets’ Pathway. Read the submission here. Meetings with NCC staff followed. There was no offer of support.  Instead, we were referred to the Commission’s Commemoration Policy, with a request

Poets’ Pathway: The Proposal When Ottawa became the capital of Canada in 1867, the Fathers of Confederation wanted to make it a capital worthy of comparison to any capital city in the world. They understood that a true capital is more than bricks and mortar. They wanted a city to lead Canada in arts and sciences, culture and intellect. To that end, they encouraged worthy poets, writers, scientists and artists

A walking path around Ottawa commemorating the Confederation Poets and the Mouvement littéraire  Into the stilly woods I go, Where the shades are deep and the wind-flowers blow, And the hours are dreamy and lone and long, And the power of silence is greater than song. W.W. Campbell View a map of the Poets’ Pathway on the Committee’s own web site. The Poets’ Pathway Committee began as a project of the Greenspace Alliance