{"id":821,"date":"2023-06-17T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/?p=821"},"modified":"2023-12-08T05:01:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T05:01:40","slug":"ramsden-park-a-park-that-built-a-community-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/ramsden-park-a-park-that-built-a-community-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramsden Park: A Park that Built a Community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;Spaces need to tell a story for people to appreciate them.&#8221;<br><\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;~ Gordon Stratford&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ABC Residents Association believes Ramsden Park has an interesting and important story to tell. Since the City of York&#8217;s earliest beginnings, this unique landscape has had a meaningful connection to this community. Even today we can see its historic past and its tangible contribution to Toronto&#8217;s history. This history must be documented and celebrated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We believe that Ramsden Park meets the criteria for designation as a Cultural Heritage Landscape. <\/strong>The first step towards that goal is for Ramsden Park to be evaluated by the Common Bond Collective during the City of Toronto&#8217;s Bloor-Yorkville Cultural Heritage Resource Assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"history-of-ramsden-park\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">History of Ramsden Park<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/paullyoung\/363911575\/in\/photostream\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/paullyoung\/363911575\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paull Young<\/a>, licensed under <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CC BY 2.0 DEED<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ABC Residents Association believes Ramsden Park has an interesting and important story to tell. Since the City of York&#8217;s earliest beginnings, this unique landscape has had a meaningful connection to this community. We believe that Ramsden Park meets the criteria for designation as a Cultural Heritage Landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions\/833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}