{"id":103975,"date":"2026-06-25T23:56:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/103975\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T23:56:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:56:35","slug":"parks-canada-signals-no-involvement-in-johnson-geo-centres-future-the-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/103975\/","title":{"rendered":"Parks Canada signals no involvement in Johnson Geo Centre&#8217;s future \u2013 The Independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"517\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/JohnsonGeoVistaPark-1024x517.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-98050\"  \/>The future of the Johnson Geo Centre and surrounding vista park prosperity remains uncertain after Parks Canada signaled it is not planning to get involved with Memorial University offloading the property that\u2019s been in the public sphere for nearly three decades. Kenny Sharpe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amid questions about what will happen to the Johnson Geo Centre currently being offloaded by Memorial University, Parks Canada says it has no plans to acquire the property which borders its Signal Hill National Historic Site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ray Kenny, public relations officer for Newfoundland\u2019s east field unit with Parks Canada, said while it\u2019s recognized there is public interest in the future of the Geo Centre, and while the federal agency hopes the Geo Centre and its grounds will remain available to the public, any expansion of Parks Canada\u2019s programming must be of \u201cnational value\u201d and be \u201cfinancially and operationally sustainable over the long term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Geo Centre\u2019s focus on science education and local geology is outside the heritage values of Signal Hill National Historic Site and Parks Canada\u2019s core mandate,\u201d Kenny told The Independent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The statement comes after some residents in the Signal Hill area were calling on Parks Canada to get more involved, following an announcement earlier this year by Memorial University that it was divesting or selling off its ownership stake in the Johnson Geo Centre and nearby Emera Innovation building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an update Thursday, university spokesperson Elizabeth Furey said the Geo Centre has yet to be actually listed for sale, and that the Emera Innovation building has not been sold. Furey said in both cases Memorial is waiting on \u201csome approvals to advance with the next steps of the divestment process\u201d for the properties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The future of the Johnson Geo Centre and surrounding vista park prosperity remains uncertain after Parks Canada signaled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,15843,37322,37323],"class_list":["post-103975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-conservation","tag-johnson-geo-centre","tag-signal-hill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}