Carlsbad Springs, Ontario

Bangs formed the Dominion Springs Company to build a spa-hotel, which would offer as recreational and medical benefits the highly-mineralized water that was found in most local wells.

As a marketing device, the village was in 1906 renamed Carlsbad Springs after the most fashionable aristocratic resort in central Europe (now Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic,<<)[2] where King Edward VII regularly took holidays.

Unsuccessful official planning altered the local economy in the 1960s when the Ontario government proposed rebuilding Carlsbad Springs as a commuter city outside Ottawa's Green Belt (200 km2.).

Keen to co-operate, the National Capital Commission started acquiring farmland nearby, to provide the satellite city with its own Green Belt.

The carnival is a popular event held every Winter at the end of January at Harkness Park and the Carlsbad Springs Community Centre (6020 Piperville Road).

As well, Carlsbad Springs continued to attract other development, including a large golf course that was built close to highway 417.

[5] Additionally, despite years of protesting from the community, development began on a dumping site for industrial waste in Carlsbad Springs.

The community is set to receive six million dollars from the developer, Taggart Miller, over a thirty-year period in return for landfill and processing rights of hazardous waste material with an estimated annual capacity of 450000 tonnes.