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Ottawa Citizen: Celebrated Gatineau Hills residence threatened with demolition

Mar 09, 2012

In the 1960s, it was a hub for parties, music and intense discussion. Guests included U.S. architect Buckminster Fuller, developer of the geodesic dome, and prominent Canadian artists Michael Snow, Jack Shadbolt and Eleanor Milne. Pierre Trudeau, then Canada’s justice minister, performed elegant late-night dives into the cliffside pool. But today, the house in Aylmer, Que., is boarded up and at risk of demolition by the National Capital Commission.

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