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But the huge tract also made headlines nearly 50 years ago in a different debate over how the region would grow, before hundreds of thousands of people lived beyond the Greenbelt. In the 1970s, the former Ontario Housing Corporation along with the National Capital Commission had pieced together land parcels and dreamed of building a model city near Carlsbad Springs. Instead, a place designated on a map as South Rideau became Barrhaven.
The Carlsbad Springs lands sat publicly owned but undeveloped for years.
In January 2020, land registry records show the Algonquins of Ontario Realty Corporation purchased three dozen properties from the Ontario government outright for $16.9 million.