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Frederick Todd

Todd sent by Olmsted to supervise installation of the 1877 Mount Royal Park;

Installation took so long he decided to live in Montreal and set up shop there.

He popularized naturalistic landscape designs and the idea of a "necklace of parks"

Ottawa 1899 Preliminary Report Ottawa improvement commission

A regional parks system

  • idea of a national capitol region
  • Large natural parks
  • Suburban parks (rockcliffe pk)
  • Boulevards and parkways