{"id":8892,"date":"2010-01-22T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=8892"},"modified":"2010-01-24T16:41:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T21:41:03","slug":"inside-the-downsview-hangars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/01\/22\/inside-the-downsview-hangars\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Downsview hangars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arcticlamb.ca\/images\/20100123002657_downsview9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Spacing readers are probably aware of the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/11\/09\/downsview-hangers-at-risk-of-demolition\/\">controversy<\/a> surrounding the historic wartime era hangars at Downsview Airport. Relics from the abandoned Forces base that once occupied the site, the hangars have heritage status but are not subject to normal heritage review because of their ownership by the Department of National Defence. When crews were spotted last November preparing for demolition, a coalition of Torontonians that included developers, politicians and the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario (ACO)\u00a0 successfully pressured National Defence into staying the demolition.<\/p>\n<p>The issue arose again however on Christmas Eve when National Defence <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arconserv.ca\/news_events\/show.cfm?id=212\">sent the ACO a letter<\/a> stating that, unless someone could come up with $20,000 weekly payments very quickly, the demolition would have to commence; another letter writing campaign ensued. Demolition was again stayed and the issue returned to the back burner when a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arconserv.ca\/news_events\/show.cfm?id=214\">Lieutenant General wrote the ACO<\/a> demanding an end to the barrage of distracting emails that were preventing him carrying on the business of administering a war.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arcticlamb.ca\/images\/20100115222639_downsview2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Spacing radio host <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcticlamb.ca\/\">David Michael Lamb<\/a> was lucky enough to get a look inside the hangars and observe more details about their current state (all the photos in the post are by him). With a multitude of possible uses, including interest from prominent historical redeveloper <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.woodcliffe.ca\/woodcliffe.html\">Paul Oberman<\/a> and the nearby <a href=\"http:\/\/www.casmuseum.org\/about.shtml\">Canadian Air &amp; Space Museum<\/a>, the hangars remain an invaluable asset to Toronto. Beyond their potential uses, they continue to hold great historical value as monuments to this country&#8217;s war effort and to the vitality of its aerospace industry at that time. They are associated with the nostalgia of the Avro Arrow and a local monument to the stark militarization of the cold war. Their preservation and what role they can play for the city, will continue to be something to watch.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arcticlamb.ca\/images\/20100120000103_downsview4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacing readers are probably aware of the controversy surrounding the historic wartime era hangars at Downsview Airport. Relics from the abandoned Forces base that once occupied the site, the hangars have heritage status but are not subject to normal heritage review because of their ownership by the Department of National Defence. When crews were spotted<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/01\/22\/inside-the-downsview-hangars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Inside the Downsview hangars&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4082,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,24],"tags":[14126,13468,14124,4498,13579,7116,14123,636,7662,14125,19,391],"class_list":["post-8892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-history","tag-aerospace-industry","tag-architectural-conservancy-of-ontario","tag-christmas-eve","tag-david-michael-lamb","tag-department-of-national-defence","tag-downsview-airport","tag-lieutenant-general","tag-ontario","tag-paul-oberman","tag-space-museum","tag-toronto","tag-usd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Inside the Downsview hangars  - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/01\/22\/inside-the-downsview-hangars\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Inside the Downsview hangars  - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Spacing readers are probably aware of the controversy surrounding the historic wartime era hangars at Downsview Airport. 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