Planning - continued

		Master plan of Ottawa by Jaques Greber, 1950.
		Carleton University Library, Special Collections and Archives

The second comprehensive master plan for the metropolitan area was issued between 1948 and 1950. The Jaques Greber Plan, as it is commonly known, was long-ranged and influential. It called for a zoological garden west of the current Unicentre. A national sports complex and stadium were to be established on the remainder of the site, east of a major new north-south roadway. While Greber also called for removal of the railway, his proposed arterial would have been located further west, along the geological fault between Hartwell's Locks and the Rideau River.

	Site detail composite of Greber's 1948-50 plans. Gerber, 1948.
	Ottawa Public Library

The federal government, and later the public service recreation organization, began to pursue Greber's proposals and made offers to buy the small parcel of land held here by Carleton College. It was partly as a result of the process of counter-offering to sell, that the decision was made by Carleton to acquire the entire site for a future campus. In a bold manoeuvre, Carleton officials quickly purchased most of the remaining lots and committed themselves to the planning and construction of a new campus.