The Rideau Canal
Change Along the Corridor Cultural Landscape
Fonds: Herb Stovel fonds Box Number: STOV-024 Accession Number: 2008-24 Series – Subject: Heritage Institutions: Institute for Heritage Education File Title: Cultural Landscapes, Rideau Canal Corridor, 1986-1994 (2 of 2)
Fonds: Herb Stovel fonds Box Number: STOV-024 Accession Number: 2008-24 Series – Subject: Heritage Institutions: Institute for Heritage Education File Title: Cultural Landscapes, Rideau Canal Corridor, 1986-1994 (2 of 2)
Fonds: Herb Stovel fonds Box Number: STOV-024 Accession Number: 2008-24 Series – Subject: Heritage Institutions: Institute for Heritage Education File Title: Cultural Landscapes, Rideau Canal Corridor, 1986-1994 (2 of 2)
Fonds: Herb Stovel fonds Box Number: STOV-024 Accession Number: 2008-24 Series – Subject: Heritage Institutions: Institute for Heritage Education File Title: Cultural Landscapes, Rideau Canal Corridor, 1986-1994 (2 of 2)
Written Notes on the Rideau Canal Corridor Landscape Study
Although these written notes do not mention who wrote them, one can assume they were written by Herb Stovel. It begins by listing ‘Itinerary Suggestions’, one of which is ‘Ottawa-stretch from Dow’s Lake to Parliament – Rideau River also’. This first page seems to be a list of important features along the Rideau Canal that needed to be discussed at whichever meeting he was going to.
The second page gives a variety of partial dates in the summer as well as naming two groups associated with the Rideau, ‘Big Rideau Lake Association, and Upper Rideau Lake Association’, and then listing what seems to be issues in the Cataraqui Region of the Rideau Canal such as: the watershed, conservation, restoration, wise-use, and management of renewable national resources.
The third page provides a brief outline of the Corridor Landscape Study. It begins with:
(1) Purpose: brief information
(2) Cultural Landscape Study of Rideau Corridor: Notes that not all Cultural Landscapes are the same, and greater weight and detail should be given to this area, as well as defining a corridor and its basis of cultural attributes
(3) Cultural Landscape Approach: Notes its link to eco-system approach, as well as noting how to characterize this approach
(4) Results: Notes the need recommend to Parks Canada, identify, evaluate, and manage the place
(5) Process: Notes the need for public input through meetings, open houses, and questionnaires
(6) Issues: Notes various problems with the Cultural landscape approach, its use and development, and what to do with it
(7) Conflict/Balance – Natural – Cultural: Notes that there are some internal conflicts and choices must be made
In the fourth page, he goes further and explains in more detail the Use and Development of the place, and the Appreciation of the Cultural Landscape.
In the final page, he write a more articulated and detailed outline similar to the one in the third page that provides a fundamental outline to use as the process to develop this study continues.