Save Juno Beach............

[Ed Storey]

Thanks Rob. Looks to me like a 'tempest in a teapot' by the JBC.

[Alex van de Wetering]

The "Ouest-France" article that Rob linked, mentioned the condo's are to be built on the site of an old shipyard. Looking at aerial images and google earth.....and comparing it with the artist impression of the condos..... it looks like the footprint and height of the condo's are pretty much the same as the former shipyard(?)

Attached aerial pictures from 1944, 1993 and 2021......it also shows the access roads haven't changed much.

[peter simundson]

A little foresight on the part of the Board of the JBC could have

secured nearby properties or if the Cdn. Gov't had shown the slightest

interest they may have invested in nearby properties.

As it was the JBC sold "bricks" for naming which turned out to be

1" X 2" tiny aluminum plaques. The QOR donated a suitcase of artifacts and a

No. 4 Sniper's Rifle. None of which could be found when I toured

the building.

Peter Simundson

[Ed Storey]

Attached are a couple of Google Street View screen shots, the first shows the site of the new condos and the second gives a view of the general area. We know that for a couple of weeks every five years in June the place turns into a zoo, but I wonder what housing prices are like in Normandy...?

Screenshot (865).jpg

Screenshot (866).jpg

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Good to see people on here getting the facts right.

So nothing it being built ON Juno beach like some sources claim. Surely new houses will lead to increased use of the existing roads, but in June traffic is horrific anyway with thousands of HMVs and white campers clogging up the roads. At the Longues sur Mer battery a new parking lot is being built to help digest the traffic.

[Jordan Baker]

My opinion is to let them build. I think it’s great that thanks to our veterans the French have the ability to be building near these sites. Is time supposed to stand still for ever? Of course not. The last time I was at Dieppe, it was for the 75th Anniversary. There was a large Summer festival including midway rides located on the grass promenade between the beach and the town. Some were understandably upset that such a festival was taking place in a place where their loved ones had been killed or wounded or captured. However I told them look at it in a different light of isn’t it great that people are able to have fun and carry on with life in a place and not to let 9hrs define it for ever.

[rob love]

I agree with Jordan. The whole country was a battlefield, and more than once. Progress is progress. There is a museum there now, and hopefully it will be there for a long time.

As to the damage on their road, both from construction now and the increased traffic from the condos in the future, that is a civil matter. Unfortunate for the museum...perhaps they can relinquish the road to the city and the city would have to maintain it. Unfortunate that the museum had to spend $400,000 to try and prevent the use of the road.

About 12 years ago, a neighbor was going to subdivide and sell the 20 acres which bordered the back of my triangular shaped property. I live rural so as to not have neighbors that close to me. So I bought the property from her to leave alone. It was either pay up or live with the progress. The property will one day be a nest egg for us or our heirs when we move on.