Ownership - continued

	1922 aerial photo of the site and vicinity, looking north.
	NAPL: HA5-19

There are no records of any campus plan having been prepared for this site during the 1947-52 period. There also are no records of any other type of development plan for this property prepared either by or for the college. The only master plan then applicable to this area was that prepared by Jacques Gréber and FDC staff. That general plan began in 1946 and was issued first in a public report dated 1948. At that time the FDC intended the entire area south of Dow's Lake to be used as a national sports centre and as a zoological garden. There was an attempt by the government to buy the College properties, and the College was prepared to sell, but agreement could not be reached on a price.

In 1951 D.K. MacTavish was appointed as the chair of the FDC. Several months later, according to board of governors' minutes, the owners of the land south of Dow's Lake received from FDC staff the first of several offers to purchase. In the fall of 1951 D.K. MacTavish declared an interest in these properties (and did not vote) when the FDC decided to acquire all the properties through expropriation if necessary.

In late 1952 MacTavish stopped serving as the FDC chair and took over as president of the federal liberal party. Just before Christmas, 1952, D.K. and J.S. MacTavish sold the property located south of Carleton's site to the College. There is no record that any officials other than the chair of the board of governors were aware of that purchase for the next three weeks. There also is no record between 1949 and 1952 of consideration to look at the feasibility of developing a new campus.