Ninth Annual Report Of The Commissioners For The Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park Being For The Year 1894 Classic Reprint

Author : Niagara Parks Commission
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ISBN 13 : 9781331910633
Total Pages : 114 pages
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Download or read book Seventeenth Annual Report of the Commissioners for the Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park written by Niagara Parks Commission and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Seventeenth Annual Report of the Commissioners for the Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park: For the Year Ending 1902 May it please your Honor: The Commissioners of the Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park beg to submit their Seventeenth Annual Report (being for the year1902), to which is appended the usual statement of receipts and expenditures, the report of the Park Superintendent and the text of several agreements which were entered into during the year, together with the expert evidence obtained in connection with some of these agreements. The vacancy which had existed on the Board of Commissioners since the decease of Mr. B. E. Charlton was filled during the past year by the appointment of Mr. Robert Jaffray of Toronto. Before entering on a review of the proceedings and transactions of the Commission for the past twelve months, the Commissioners may be permitted to refer to certain strictures and adverse criticisms on the Management of the Park affairs which have appeared from time to time in the press. These criticisms evidently are based upon an entire misapprehension of the facts, and if allowed to pass unchallenged may be accepted by the public as being well founded and unanswerable. The chief stricture to which objection is taken by the Commissioners is, that in order to provide revenue they have committed acts of vandalism that will ultimately ruin the scenery of Niagara Falls, and one writer goes so far as to say "that it is scarcely possible to conceive how anything short of financial interest could have persuaded them (the Commissioners) so to play false to the whole spirit of their trust." In view of such statements it appears to be necessary that the Commissioners should again clearly set forth the policy which was adopted at the time the Park was established, and which has been consistently adhered to throughout the fifteen years which have since elapsed, and in furtherance of this reference will be made (1) to the measures authorized by the Legislature for acquiring the Park and the duty cast upon the Commissioners to provide the funds needed for the improvement and maintenance of the property, (2) The area of the property originally selected about the Falls for Park purposes and the very extended territory that has since been placed under the jurisdiction of the Commissioners and, (3) The sources from which the funds are derived for carrying on the work. When the Government of Ontario had the Park project under consideration two general principles were regarded as indispensible to the carrying out of the project, viz.: That no financial burden should be laid upon the Province for either the purchase or maintenance of the property, and in conformity with the plan adopted on the American side of the American side of the river that the Park should be made free. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.