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Our city needs a new place to develop whatever military monuments and other memorials come along in future years, says the National Capital Commission.

It’s picking a route already, starting where British soldiers arrived at the end of the War of 1812.

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The consultation document for Canada’s Capital Military Commemoration Plan wants to overcome a variety of memorials that are scattered without relation to each other.

The problem is that we can’t cram any more monuments into Confederation Park, Confederation Square and other downtown centres of existing monuments.

The proposed solution: a new Remembrance Precinct where Wellington Street meets the Portage Bridge. This would be one end of the new Ceremonial Route stretching from west to east and ending up at the Cartier Square Square Drill Hall.

“This axis commences at Richmond Landing — of military historical significance as the debarkation point of demobilized soldiers from the War of 1812 who travelled up the corduroy road to settle the village of Richmond,” the planning document says.