Do your part to help the village by buying a square foot for you or someone you know.

Make Square Foot Donations at:

ScotiaBank

West Carleton Amateur Sports Club

Inez' Beauty Salon in Carp

The Elk Ranch

Sammy's Pizza and Restaurant

Nicholl's General Store

Constance Lake Lodge

Expansion to the Fairgrounds: Clearly, this is the option that is most strongly supported by the public. It is also the option that has the greatest short and longterm flexibility.

Keeping the Carp Fair Alive - in addition to providing the bulk of the parking for the fair today, the land could be used to expand the Carp Fair

Maintain and Grow the Farmer's Market - being directly adjacent to the Farmer's Market means the land could be used to expand the Farmer's Market substantially from where it is today.

Provide walking paths and recreational area - local residents and visitors will be able to enjoy all of the land, walking and playing in preserved greenspace without having to leave the village area.

Historical Village: The WCHPA is very keenly interested in having a portion of the lands reserved for a historical village. This would be a portion of the site (on the order of 1/3 of the area of the site) set aside for the relocation and restoration of historical buildings in the area as they become available. The underlying concept is that volunteer effort and fundraising (organized by the WCHPA) would be used to relocate, restore and interpret the buildings, and that this would not require funding from the City for either the establishment or the on-going operation of the village.

As well, we would undertake a longer-term development possibly containing 8 – 10 buildings in total, and taking on the order of 20 years to develop (for example, one building being acquired every two to three years. A model for this is the ‘Lost Villages’ historical village in Long Sault, Ontario. The buildings themselves could be used to accommodate some of the activities of the Fair (e.g. a barn being used to showcase antique farm equipment), as well as exhibit some of the collections of equipment and implements in the area. The buildings could also serve as homes for West Carleton Township (Fitzroy, Huntley & Torbolton) historical societies and their collections.

Community Museum: There are some significant collections of artifacts (e.g. the Dickson collection) that exist in the community and that could make an interesting addition to a community museum. While this would be an acceptable public use for the land, the question of who would build and operate such a museum is open.  One possibility, of course, is that one or more of the historical buildings as referred to above might house the collection(s).