the way. Thomas Ahearn was a dominant force in pushing for the building of the Driveway alongside the canal from Fifth Avenue to Bank Street and then around Dow?s Lake to the Central Experimental Farm.The parkway was a singularly North American idea centred on the use of the car. People would be able to drive around the city oblivious of its design failings. One of these failings was to be the Exhibition Grounds and especially the massive Frank Clair Stadium of 1966. 36. Looking north from the former Patterson?s Creek island folly along Metcalfe Street to the new National Museum c. 1912 In 1926, Lansdowne Park celebrated Ottawa's centennial with a major celebration, however this was the year that the new parkway was built alongside the canal around the park, severing free pedestrian and boat access from the canal. At the time the severance was much less noticeable than now since cars travelled more slowly and in far less quantity, for the Glebe was still at the edge of the city. There was to be no stopping, no commercial traffic and no improper behavior on this two lane landscaped drive. In order to build this road the stables along the canal edge were demolished and a concrete embankment built. The supposedly ugly Exhibition Grounds were inadequately hidden from view by a row of poplars. In the 1930?s the City converted the north east corner of the Park into a supervised tourist camp where one could pitch one's tent "beneath the