In 1935 the lands of Richmond Hill became home to the world’s second largest telescope. Jessie Donald Dunlap funded the David Dunlap observatory, DDO, in the memory of her husband Alexander Dunlap. These 189 acres of land were given as a gift to the University of Toronto. For years it has been a helping hand leading towards solar and lunar discoveries. July 2008, The University sold this to a company called Metrus. The DDO has been apart of the community for 76 years and without a doubt should be protected as a part their heritage and environment to be enjoyed by current and future generations. Not only is the observatory inscribed in Richmond Hill’s and Canada’s history, it is also an influential aspect in the environment and home to hundreds of species of animals and plant life. To take over the land and continue with development, surely the previously listed attributes will be lost.
With careful investigation of topographical aspects, Clarence Chant found the ideal land upon which the observatory would be build. Seeing it for the first time, Jessie Dunlap proclaimed “this is the place!” and 1930 the project began. This site is located on a rise in the land in the south of the city of Richmond Hill. From a young age, Chant fervently worked towards establishing this observatory and with the funding of David Alexander Dunlap, this was made possible. Up to today’s date the architectural styles of the era can still be seen and studied. The administrative building is exemplar in demonstrating beaux-arts classical architectural style. It has also been the source of many astronomical discoveries such as Supernova1987; an exploding star. The observatory was also given recognition, as it was there that the very first confirmation ...
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...oronto handed over the David Dunlap land along with the telescope on it for 70 million dollars. Metrus has broken two by laws and one provincial law and has continued with the fervent removal of trees and destruction of land. 76 years ago this land was given to the public and to the university of Toronto to give students a hands-on experience working with Canada’s largest telescope. Metrus has not done anything in the favor of the residents of Richmond Hill or the environment. In their construction plans and assessments they have destroyed hundreds of habitats and put animals in a state of extreme threat. The trees the city needs to balance against light and air pollution are disappearing, and the heritage and history is being lost in this mess. The David Dunlap lands must be preserved. If the environment, heritage and animal life does not come first, what does?
The novel, A Land Remembered, is the epic saga of three generations of MacIveys. The novel begins with a flash back, from the last generation MacIvey, Sol. Sol was a real estate tycoon in Miami and the surrounding areas. He has chosen to give up his life in Miami to live his last hours in the cabin in Punta Rassa , Florida; the cabin his grandfather had built. Thus, the three generations of MacIveys in Florida ends.
In the town of Santa Rosa California, in the county of Sonoma sits a very run down structure in need of either reconstruction or preservation of the remaining structure. Whether they reconstruct the structure or not, it is a prime example of a structure to be added to the National Register of Historic Places. This building is called the Carrillo Adobe and was owned by a woman by the name of Maria Ygnacia de Carrillo. However the site and part of the structure was constructed before Maria Carrillo moved to the area which would later become Santa Rosa, California and constructed the first structure in the town. The foundation was laid by monks of the Franciscan order, as they planned to build the twenty-second mission in California. However the monks moved on to build a mission in the surrounding area. In 1837 Carrillo, who had just become a widow, moved from San Diego County with her children to the area, which was not yet known as Santa Rosa.
The Grassy Narrows (Asubpeeschoseewagong) First Nation is an Ojibwa First Nation located north of Kenora, ON. The community has been fighting against environmental injustices imposed on them from various actors over the last 40 years (Rodgers, 2009, para. 10), involving issues with mercury poisoned fish (para. 1) clear cutting of their lands (para. 27) and subsequent degradation of their land, water and food sources. This essay will detail the environmental justice struggles of the Grassy Narrows First Nation, point out the unfair treatment and environmental racism they have been subject to and will also question the role that authority, power and litigation have played within the community.
...nal Expansion Memorial. Inside the building museum exhibits can be found. It now currently is being preserved by them to remind everyone of a fine example of nineteenth-century architecture. (“Old Courthouse Architecture”)
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory or SOHO for short is a cooperative joint effort by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the U. S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The main mission of this project is to study the internal structure of the Sun, its extensive upper atmosphere, as well as to determine the origin and characteristics of the solar wind.
Although the Canadian government has done a great deal to repair the injustices inflicted on the First Nations people of Canada, legislation is no where near where it needs to be to ensure future protection of aboriginal rights in the nation. An examination of the documents that comprise the Canadian Constitution and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms reveal that there is very little in the supreme legal documents of the nation that protect aboriginal rights. When compared with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples it is clear that the Canadian Constitution does not acknowledge numerous provisions regarding indigenous people that the UN resolution has included. The most important of these provisions is the explicit recognition of First Nations rights to their traditional lands, which have a deep societal meaning for aboriginal groups. Several issues must be discussed to understand the complex and intimate relationship all aboriginal societies have with the earth. Exploration into the effects that the absence of these rights has had the Cree of the Eastern James Bay area, will provide a more thorough understanding of the depth of the issue. Overall, the unique cultural relationship First Nations people of Canada have with Mother Earth needs to be incorporated into the documents of the Canadian Constitution to ensure the preservation and protection of Canadian First Nations cultural and heritage rights.s
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It was truly upsetting and heartbreaking to see that the South Central Los Angeles garden was to be tear down by bulldozer. During our discussion, my sister was shocked and angry at Ralph Horowitz, the owner of the land. Horowitz said that he would sell his land for approximately 15 million dollars, which the farmers and supporters were able to fundraise that money but he declined to sell it. What made my sister frustrated was the idea that he originally got the land for 5 million dollars, but he wanted way more money than he originally got. In addition, Horowitz sees the garden as “no good cause nor good conduct for it,” my sister opposed to his thinking about the garden because it was for a great cause. The garden served as a purpose to the local Latino residents of Los Angeles, they were able to grow crops to feed their families. Furthermore, the garden is a great idea because the crops are organic and does not damage the environment. In the documentary, the land Ralph Horowitz owned in 1986 was sold for 5 million dollars to the city to build a trash burning site, yet was not taken into action. Rufina Juarez, who is a South Central Farmer leader, discussed about how after the land was sold, it became an eminent domain. What my cousin and I was shock about was how the property was once a city owned land then become a property owned land without the farmers being informed about it. Jan Perry did a
“In addition to being places of magnificent beauty, the old growth forests of the world represent hundreds of years of life on this planet, and many of the trees are the tallest living things on the planet (Old Growth Forests, 2004).” Because of their size, these trees, and the forests they reside in, are targeted by logging companies such as Weyerhaeuser as highly profitable areas that provide supposed economical benefits to surrounding communities in the way of new jobs.
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