It appears the commemoration of the HMCS Sackville will be going ahead with or without the Queen's Landing proposal. And being a $90-100 Million project on the waterfront this is a major investment into downtown.
HMCS Sackville memorial project buoyed by $250,000 from Ottawa
March 2, 2013 - 10:45pm BY PAUL MCLEOD OTTAWA BUREAU
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The proposed redevelopment around HMCS Sackville, dubbed Battle of the Atlantic Place.
OTTAWA — The federal government is giving $250,000 toward the commemoration and preservation of HMCS Sackville.
Defence Minister Peter MacKay will be in Halifax Sunday to announce the donation to the Canadian Naval Memorial Trust.
The Sackville is the last of Canada’s 123 Second World War-era corvettes. It spends its summers docked along the Halifax waterfront.
The trust has plans to raise tens of millions of dollars from governments and private donors to establish a new memorial on the waterfront that has the 71-year-old ship as its centrepiece.
The plan calls on constructing a building, covering 1.8 hectares, that houses an interpretive centre and interactive displays on the Battle of the Atlantic. The plan is to have the memorial ready for Canada’s 150th birthday in 2017.
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