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Family Nature Parcs Land Site at Ashton City of Ottawa Ontario, Canada
Family Nature Parcs Land Site at Ashton
City of Ottawa Ontario Canada
Aerial photo of the Land Site- within the red border – area 138.44 acres, located between Ashton Station Road (less than 2 kilometres to HW-7 and HW 417 West) and McCaffrey Trail. Showing the Jock River travels a distance of 1,666 feet through the land site.
Legend:(1)Jock River (2) McCaffrey Trail (3) Forested Hill 43 ft high (4)Ashton Station Road Map Direction
(5)Entrance and Exit to Parc at road allowance and Ashton Station Road
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Family Nature Parcs Land Site at Ashton
Legend: (1)Jock River (2)McCaffrey Trail (3)Forested Hill 43 ft high (4)Ashton Station Road (5)Entrance and Exit to Parc at road allowance and Ashton Station Road
Aerial photo of the Land Site– within the red border – area 138.44 acres, located between Ashton Station Road (less than 2 kilometre to HW-7 and HW 417 West) and McCaffrey Trail. Showing the Jock River travels a distance of 1,666 feet through the land site.
The land site and Concept Planning: Concept Planning means those pre-development actions initiated to (a) conduct planning studies to assess the development potential of the Property; (b) prepare a conceptual master plan for the Property; (c) pursue local (municipal) governmental planning and regulatory approvals necessary to implement the conceptual master plan (s) of Family Nature Parcs including plan amendments and rezoning; and (d) prepare and obtain local governmental approval of plans.
Concept Planning for the Company’s own Parcs, generally is undertaken upon having acquired a leasehold interest in a land site chosen and approved by the Company. In the case of a franchisee upon having legally established the ownership or leasehold interest of the franchisee in the designated land site.
The Concept Planning for a Family Nature Parcs land site in Canada may consist of one or more of the following steps which generally would be required for the eventual development of a Family Nature Parcs sports and recreation facilities. (a) Land site Feasibility Assessment involving the suitability of location, accessibility, environmental issues, water resources, species and allowed usages. (b) Site Plan Preparation involving conceptual layout of facilities, outline of necessary infrastructure (c) Official Designation of Land Sites and Zoning Matters, the Company my seek approvals of its Site Plan, or may seek amendments to the existing Official Designation of Land Sites and Zoning. Amendments will be supported with engineering plans and relevant studies prepared by the Company and consultants.
Direction to Ashton Land site:
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From Ottawa
Take Highway 417 West to Highway 7 Exit.
Follow Highway 7 to Ashton Station Road
Turn left on Ashton Station Road and proceed approximately 1 km to the village of Ashton.From Carleton Place
Take Highway 7 East to Ashton Station Road.
Turn right on Ashton Station Road and proceed approximately 1 km to the village of Ashton.From Highway 416
Proceed to Highway 417 West.
Take Highway 417 West to Highway 7 Exit.
Follow Highway 7 to Ashton Station Road
Turn left on Ashton Station Road and proceed approximately 1 km to the village of Ashton.From Smith Falls
Take Highway 15 North towards Carleton Place.
Turn right on Highway 7 East.
Turn right on Ashton Station Road and proceed approximately 1 km to the village of Ashton.
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Douglas Joseph Cardinal
Douglas J. Cardinal, O.C., Ph.D. (h.c.)
Family Nature Parcs and Fred L Farha are honored and privileged to announce his appointment as our Chief Architect & Senior Advisor
Douglas Cardinal the internationally acclaimed Canadian architect of Métis and Blackfoot heritage will inspire our dreams for the realization of our first community outdoor sport and recreational facility in Ashton, Ottawa then spreading our outdoor wellness FNPs across Canada and the world.
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Chief Architect & Senior Advisor
Douglas J. Cardinal, O.C., Ph.D. (h.c.)
B.Arch., O.A.A, A.I.A, A.A.A., M.A.A., S.A.A., O.C., R.C.A.A., F.R.A.I.C., F.R.I.A.S,
Family Nature Parcs and Fred L Farha are honored and privileged to announce his appointment of as our Chief Architect & Senior Advisor.
Douglas Cardinal the internationally acclaimed Canadian architect of Métis and Blackfoot heritage will inspire our dreams for the realization of our first community outdoor sport and recreational facility in Ashton, Ottawa then spreading our outdoor wellness FNPs across Canada and the world.Douglas Cardinal expresses his buildings in a signature style of harmonius curvilinear forms. Yet, the elegance of his designs is not limited to aesthetics- he has a deep understanding of architecture as a tool to better the world. A proponent of Organic Architecture, Douglas Cardinal understands architecture as a holistic enterprise where all members of the architectural process conjunctively create a legacy for the future. Indeed, Douglas believes that each building takes a life of its own as a living, organic being shaped in close partnership with the client and all stake holders.
As an architect, Douglas Cardinal has created a practice where he brings clients’ visions into reality. Douglas believes we humans have a responsibility to our gift of creativity, and that with our wills connected, we can create anything. To make this happen, Douglas Cardinal’s unique architectural process starts with a Vision Session. He encourages the client to analyze all aspects of the usage of a space by studying the empirical, practical, emotional and spiritual needs of a building. Thus his buildings are designed with a soul, which is found in the intentions and the deepest hopes and desires of all stake holders. In this unique and rigorous exercise, the client can clearly identify all resources needed – be it technological, professional or financial – that will be required in completing the project. Ultimately, it is not the architect that creates the buildings, but the client; it is their vision, their financing, and their social commitment that organically grows a built environment that reflects their projected identity. The architect gives shape to and coordinates the intricacies of the clients’ visions for a building.
Precisely because he believes there is no end to our capability to create that which is envisioned, Douglas Cardinal has defied rectilinear conventional principles of architecture. As early as the 1960’s he began using the amazing capability of computers in order to calculate the complex organic forms, most notably in the curved roof of his first masterpiece, St. Mary’s church in Red Deer, Alberta. He incorporated the technology further to increase the dimensioning precision and affordability of his organic forms, and by the late 1970’s Douglas Cardinal Architect became the first architectural practice to be entirely computerized, utilizing an architectural program designed exclusively for the firm. St. Albert Place, in St. Albert, Alberta – now designated a historic building – was the first building in the world to be built with totally computerized architectural technology to dimension all construction drawings. Douglas Cardinal’s unique approach to computers extends beyond the conceptual design phase, as he constructs in three dimensions with detail accuracy to at least ten decimal places. His exceptional use of computer software is unparalleled to this day, as he integrates computer technology in a manner which creatively encourages the evolution of techniques and technologies of the construction and trade industries. All this creates better architecture.
Douglas, his wife Idoia and young team. Douglas Cardinal’s life is dedicated to creating beautiful, thriving harmonious built environments. As an architect he builds buildings, as a planner and activist he builds communities, and as a leader and philosopher he builds bridges between dispersed cultures all over the world. Douglas Cardinal personifies the timelessness of a masterbuilder.
Born in 1934 in Calgary, Alberta, his mother augured early in his childhood that he would become an architect. His architectural studies at The University of British Columbia took him to Austin, Texas, where he worked at Jesson Milhouse Greeven with Fred Day and acquired scholarships to study at the renowned School of Architecture at the The University of Texas. There he found an intellectually stimulating and socially invigorating environment where in addition to his education in architecture, he benefitted from actively involving himself in the many human rights initiatives ignited in the United States in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. This commitment to bettering human conditions continues to be one of the major principles of his architecture, from the smallest detail to the overall design or masterplan. He continues his holistic multidisciplinary practice in Ottawa, Ontario where he currently resides.
Douglas is a forerunner of all philosophies of sustainability, green buildings and ecologically designed community planning. His architecture springs from his observations of Nature and his understanding that everything works seamlessly together. For him this principle is exemplified by the organic signature works of Borromini, Gaudi, Rudolph Steiner and Frank Lloyd Wright – all of whom have also substantiated such aliveness through beauty and grace in their architecture. Indeed, Douglas believes that the practical needs humans have for architecture must also include beauty if we are to achieve true sustainability and harmonious communities.
In recognition of such a wonderful principle, Douglas Cardinal has received many acknowledgments and awards including: fourteen Honourary Doctorates from several universities in Canada and the United States, the appointment as Officer of the Order of Canada – the greatest honour Canada as a nation bestows to its citizens, the Gold Medals in Architecture from the Royal Architectural Institute in Canada and the Union of Architects of Russia, honourary fellowships to the Society of American Registered Architects and the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland and the declaration of being “World Master of Contemporary Architecture” as a Professor and Academician by the International Association of Architects.
Douglas Cardinal is one of the visionaries of a new world where beauty, balance and harmony thrive, and where client, architect, and stakeholder build together in a common vision. His Curriculum Vitae and all the awards achieved throughout his brilliant career are simply a testimony of what the partnership of architect and client can achieve together.
Note: Photos courtesy by Bruno Schlumberger, Ottawa Citizen with thanks.
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Advertise with Us
Family Nature Parcs is developing its Franchising Brand of community sport, recreation and wellness. The Company Brand will display its distinguished logo inspiring reliability, originality and good taste.
We are launching our online eShop as one of the major six revenue generators and an ambassador of quality and value to our global friends and shoppers.
Promoting your business by advertising with us, will appeal to the armies of our online followers, franchisees, players, sponsors and donors.
The following is a sample of the variety of promotional products we are developing that will pleasantly represent your services or products:
- LED Signs
- Parking Tickets
- Membership Cards
- Company Stationary
- Website
- Online Circular
- Balls (Tennis, Golf, Soccer, etc.)
- Field Flags
- Field Signs
- Badges
- Caps and Hats
- T-Shirts
- Scarves
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French Website Version
Translation of the whole English website contents to the French Language is being progressed at the present. Adding the French version to the website, will feature our proud bilingual Canadian heritage.
The French language version will be uploaded shortly.
We are also planning to feature our proud Canadian multicultural heritage.We will be posting on the website, informational messages, notices and press releases, in several languages, recognizing and celebrating our Canadian special ethnic mosaic.
Thank You, Merci
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Coming very soon !!!
Watch for our global Crowdfunding Campaign
The reality of Family Nature Parcs… because we care !
Fred L Farha, Founder &Chairman -
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Our main objective is to allow children of all ages to participate in wholesome fun sport and recreation, playing on fields, courts and facilities purpose-designed for children, situated next to their dads, moms, friends or guardian adults. We believe this is the ultimate role model to get children to participate in sports.Our business is to cater to the needs, moods and interest of growing families and to allow children and adults of various economic status, ethnicity or disability to visit, make use of and enjoy our community one-stop, multi-sports and recreational Parcs.
Our mission is to create and maintain a caring community environment, designed to beat usual boredom, and to keep children and adults engaged in the sports they like and that they want. We are certain that the sheer number, variety and quality of sports, games and recreational facilities we will make available at our Parcs will certainly keep them happy, enthusiastic and engaged in their sport or favorite game or to simply enjoy being there.
The Company aspires to set high standards of civilized behavior by players and visitors at its Parcs. Bullying, discrimination, harassment, name calling, violence and similar manifestations of ungentlemanly and unsporting behavior will not be accepted or tolerated.
We want the active involvement of aboriginal and new Canadians in sport and recreation at our Parcs. To accomplish this we are planning different interesting programs, games and camps to bring children and teenagers from those communities to partake with other Canadians to feel inclusive and to help break that invisible barrier that is inhibiting their active participation in community sport and recreation.
We believe the time has come for our new and daring concept of Family Nature Parcs. The present aging one-size-fits all, outlived its usefulness. The time has come for all of us to take action to stem the out-of-control obesity epidemic—especially in children.
Family Nature Parcs is aiming to become a significant trainer, molder and supplier of players, coaches, athletes, champions and the sport stars of the future and the trendsetter of the one-stop, multi-sport and recreation outdoor facilities of fun and wellness for life.
Family Nature Parcs is planning to be intentional about community sport ensuring that it reflects our best values and that everyone has a chance to participate and that every kid has the right to play, that the economically disadvantaged and the disabled are not neglected. We want to reflect and reinforce Canadian True Sport values of excellence, fairness, fun and inclusion, helping to make the sport we have the sport we want for life.
Lastly – We believe that the franchisability of a ‘Canada brand of community sport, recreation and wellness’ enjoys very deep and healthy roots in communities across Canada and now reaches unparalleled diversity, inclusiveness, volunteerism, maturity, professionalism and an acceptable commercial dimension that, in our judgment, is ready to be institutionalized as an exportable Franchise Brand of wellness across Canada, the US and the world.
Thank you for your participation and support.
