BIG TREES of Kitchissippi

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Four Champlain Oaks to receive heritage status Sept. 27

Our friends at the Champlain Oaks project have good news to share. Four of the 40 large bur oaks in Champlain Park neighbourhood are...

TVO offers documentary film, Call of the Forest, online until Sept. 17

UPADTE, Sept 23, 2017: The film is now available on DVD. If you hug trees, you must watch this documentary. It chronicles tree activist...

A dying shame: 5 years after the usual damage

The errands of daily life recently took me along Workman Ave. in the Westboro Beach neighbhourhood. This enclave, west of Island Park...

Catastrophe for the catalpa?

Is Chapter 2 in the catalpa tale a catastrophe? Or is it an example of people doing the best they can to mitigate the hard realities of...

Two (welcome) signs acknowledge a tree's value

From half a block away, the fragrance of a mighty catalpa tree beckons. I am walking on Carleton Ave. in Champlain Park, and as I...

Bravo, Montreal! But Ottawa's streets need a greener look

Although Montreal is bigger, it seems to be excelling at making the urban landscape greener than Ottawa does. A member of the Greenspace...

Park volunteers meet to create a community play about trees

On June 24, Volunteer Gardeners of Clare Gardens Park in Westboro convened its first meeting to plan a community play they will deliver...

When grey obliterates green, trees are the losers

I am pleased to share an article I wrote for NewsWest--the non-profit community newspaper that serves Kitchissippi ward. It's a personal...

BIG TREES of Kitchissippi is a citizens' group with reps from 9 community associations and volunteer-run groups in Kitchissippi Ward:

The Champlain Oaks Project,

Volunteer Gardeners of Claire Gardens Park,
Wellington Village Community Association,

Westboro Community Association,

Civic Hospital Neighbourhood
Association,

Westboro Beach Community Association,

Champlain Park Community Association,

McKellar Park Community Association, Hampton-Iona Community Group

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We care about protecting the healthy, mature trees that are increasingly being destroyed due to large-scale infill housing.

We urge city staff and politicians to support and enforce two by-laws that relate to trees on municipal and private property.

We invite citizens to get involved in advocating for protection of healthy, mature trees in Kitchissippi Ward.