City of Ottawa/Intermunicipal Affairs/Murray Jones/Ottawa/Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton/Transcript

Second City, Second Metro: Ottawa Separate School Board – “the principal of equal opportunity is being violated.”

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The Roman Catholic Separate School Board of Ottawa had one thing in mind when its submissions were made to the Jones Commission: money. Although the Board was pleased with what it was able to accomplish in Catholic education with the funds it had been allotted, the 70% difference in per-pupil funding vis-a-vis the Public School Board did not sit right.

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Second City, Second Metro: Nepean Hydro “provides superior administration by retaining a local interest and identity.”

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Nepean Hydro was made possible by years of organization and advocacy and became a reality in 1964. The new utility was not about to voluntarily fold. Image: Hydro Ottawa.

Nepean Hydro, having only been formally a separate utility since 1964, showed little interest in being swallowed whole by Ottawa Hydro as part of the reorganization of local government.

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Second City, Second Metro: Cumberland Council Seeks Divorce From Prescott and Russell

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Cumberland Township’s Council looked over the border to Gloucester and wanted a new relationship. Image: Excerpt from Archives of Ontario, RG 1-100-0-0-417 Map #10.

Had nearly all the other voices in Cumberland Township not been enough to drive the point home that alignment with Carleton County, rather than remaining with Prescott and Russell, was what was wanted, then the voice of Cumberland Township’s Council might have been what was needed to seal the deal.

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