OTTAWA — Options are being explored to keep the National Holocaust Monument open once the snow falls after it emerged last week that the newly opened site would be closed for winter. The subject was high on the agenda for a meeting Thursday between the monument’s development council, the designers and the National Capital Commission. The NCC has said that clearing the site of snow and ice risks damaging it, so like many national monuments, it has been slated to close later this fall and re-open in the spring. The council has technically ceased to exist now that the monument is open and the federal government is responsible for the site’s maintenance. But he remained unclear whether keeping the monument open this winter is a possibility or if it will require a longer-term plan.

Source: National Post November 02, 2017 13:53 UTC