History · Rockcliffe Park area
What is the history of Rockcliffe Park?
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Rockcliffe Park was founded by Thomas Keefer in 1864 on Picturesque principles, organized as a police village in 1908 and became an independent village in 1926. It amalgamated with the rest of Ottawa on January 1, 2001. The whole village was designated a Heritage Conservation District in 1977.
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Wikipedia calls Rockcliffe Park one of only a handful of surviving nineteenth-century communities of its kind in North America. The village motto is 'Inter Arboribus Floremus', meaning 'amidst the trees we flourish'.
The Dutch royal family lived there during World War II.
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