Harrington Lake Diefenbaker suggested that he needed a quiet place to go fishing, not too far from Ottawa. Later that year, Harrington Lake was chosen as the site for an official country residence and the buildings were formally designated as a secure residence for Canada’s prime ministers. During the first prime ministership of Pierre Trudeau, his then-wife, Margaret, added a vegetable garden; according to Kim Campbell's autobiography "Time and Chance", the garden still provided the house with fresh produce at the time of that writing. Campbell was the only Prime Minister to have spent her entire term in office residing at Harrington
Lake Rogers Park being drawn down and efforts to retain the water level have been undertaken. In 1987 the City of St. Petersburg leased the land to Hillsborough County for "passive natural resource based recreation," although the park didn't open until 1999 when the Hillsborough County Commissioners provided the park with an operating budget. The official opening was March 2000. Lake Rogers Park, 9010 North Mobley Road, Odessa, FL 33556, (813) 264-3917. Hillsborough County Parks, Recreation and Conservation Department, 1101 E. Rivercove Drive, Tampa, FL 33604. Phone: (813) 975-2160. Lake Rogers Park Lake Rogers Park is a 272 acre park and preserve with