Calling on the minister of Culture, Communications and the Status of Women to classify the Griffintown Horse Palace as a historical monument according to the Cultural Property Act;
And calling upon our municipal, provincial, and federal governments to provide the necessary support and funding to ensure this historic site and its function can be preserved.
(English version follows)
Considrant que le complexe situ aux 1220-1226 rue Ottawa Montral, qui comprend le Griffintown Horse Palace avec sa maison, ses btiments, ses curies et sa cour, date de 1862 ou plus tt et constitue un vestige uniquement intact et prserv de l'usage industriel et commercial du cheval au 19e et au 20e sicle;
Considrant que ce site unique et historique est l'une, ou peut-tre la seule, des dernires curies fonctionnelles de ce type en Amrique du Nord;
Considrant que ces curies abritent encore des poneys ainsi que des chevaux, et des calches utiliss pour promener les touristes dans le Vieux-Montral et que ces chevaux doivent avoir un abri proche de leur lieu de travail;
Considrant que l'ensemble, qui a jadis servi d'auberge aux voyageurs de passage et leurs chevaux, ainsi qu'aux chevaux de trait utiliss par les industries situes le long du canal de Lachine, a une grande valeur culturelle et patrimoniale pour Montral et pour le Canada;
Considrant que Patri-Arch, la firme de consultants en architecture et en patrimoine, a recommand d'examiner la pertinence de citer le Griffintown Horse Palace titre de monument historique selon la Loi sur les biens culturels (c'est--dire l'chelle de la Ville), et que le Conseil du patrimoine a ritr cette recommandation;
Nous, les soussigns,
Considering that the complex which makes up the celebrated Griffintown Horse Palace at 1220-1226 Ottawa Street in Montreal, which includes a house and stables, a barn, an old inn, and other buildings, all grouped around a courtyard, dates from 1862 or earlier and is a uniquely intact vestige of the industrial and commercial use of the horse in the 19th and 20th century;
Considering that this unique and historic site boasts what may be the last functioning stables of this sort in North America;
Considering that the complex still houses ponies, horses, and carriages used for transporting tourists in Old Montreal, and that these horses must be able to maintain a shelter near Old Montreal;
Considering that this complex, which once served as a shelter to passengers and their horses and to working horses used by the industries along the Lachine Canal, is a site of great cultural and historical heritage for Montreal and Canada;
Considering that Patri-Arch, the consulting firm in architecture and heritage, recently recommended that the City of Montreal consider the relevance of mentioning the Griffintown Horse Palace as a historical monument in accordance with the Cultural Property Act, and that the Heritage Council reiterated this recommendation;
We, the undersigned,
call upon the minister of Culture, Communications and Status of Women to ask for the recommendation of the Commission des biens culturels du Qubec on the subject of classifying the Griffintown Horse Palace as a historical monument and/or site according to the Cultural Property Act.
call upon our municipal, provincial, and federal governments to provide the necessary support and funding to ensure that the entire ensemble of buildings including the house, the inn, stables, other buildings and the courtyard of the Griffintown Horse Palace be preserved as a functional enterprise with horses and carriages, as it has been for 150 years.
Nous envoyons cette ptition :
We will send this to:
Madame Christine St-Pierre, Cabinet de la ministre, Ministre de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition fminine, 480, boul. Saint-Laurent, 7e tage, Montral (Qubec) H2Y 3Y7
The Honourable Jose Verner , Minister of Canadian Heritage, Status of Women and Official Languages, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0A6 The Honourable Jason Kenney, Secretary of State (Multiculturalism and Canadian Identity), House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0A6
Maire Grald Tremblay, Htel de ville, 275, rue Notre-Dame Est, Montral (Qubec) H2Y 1C6
Alan De Sousa, membre du comit excutif responsable du dossier Secteur Griffintown, Htel de ville, 275, rue Notre-Dame Est, bureau R.111, Montral (Qubec) H2Y 1C6
Madame Jacqueline Montpetit, mairesse de l'arrondissement Sud-Ouest, 815 rue Bel-Air, 1er tage, Montral (Qubec) H4C 2K4
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