story about bowmanville market square is a very sad one. back in 1897, see little scanned photo top right, people were celebrating queen victoria’s diamond jubilee on their wonderful, architecturally well defined, urban square. it was their favourite place for trade and social communication. what was left today of that space? nothing, not even a name.

city hall, built in 1903, is on its place and almost invisible from the temperance street hidden behind row of trees, is a left over space. it does not have any function except for the monument to the solders who died in world wars. old market square space is today used mainly for parking and some one story retail. it was totally unnecessary to destroy the heart of the city. great effort from the group of enthusiasts is obvious in nice preserved atmosphere in the king street and old residential neighbourhood but the potential to be the national tourist attraction and example of how historic neighbourhoods should be treated and saved, is in a big way lost. still there is lot of things to do to save what was left.

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...market square, bowmanville, canada, 2006

see also: "bowmanville", psychogeographical portrait, subjective analysis of neighbourhood behaviours, created for the project "enabled neighbourhoods" in cooperation with b. humber and b.killin, centre for the built environment, seneca college, toronto, august 2006, :: PDF Interactive document 5.2MB