By Dwight Williams
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Street Names: Legends of the Highlands
This story might have started with the publication of Sir Walter Scott‘s historical novels such as discussed here previously, back in the first half...
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Street Names: Echoes of the Riel Rebellions
_____ It’s starting to become a habit: research for one project hereabouts leads to surprising connections to other things that you didn’t...
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The Rink That Was, In Centretown
Many regular readers will already be aware of the work now underway to build an outdoor ice rink as part of Marion Dewar Plaza in front of Ottawa City...
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Sussex and George: The case of the disappearing view
_______ This past week, Chapters’ Rideau Street store reopened their childrens’ section on the second floor, newly rebranded as part of their...
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Opinion: downtown library vital to entire region
Last month the Ottawa Citizen ran an opinion piece by Mark Sutcliffe about what he alleges is a lack of a “business case” to justify the construction of a...
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Street names: the entertainers
Call this a work in progress. Also, expect this category to be revisited. With those two caveats out of the way, we’ll begin with this thought: In...
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The abuse and neglect of Somerset House
[flickr mikeygottawa 72157625047890029] Editor’s note: The above photoset is by Mike Gerike, who tells the story of how it came together here...
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Street Names: Macdonald and Cartier
We started this series covering Wellington and By. Among the other figures of historic influence over the history of Ottawa are, of course, the Prime...
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Ottawa’s Alphabet Village
This started out as another one of the “Street Names” stories. Once my digging began, though, it turned into a story about a neighbourhood that most...
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Storefront banking in retreat: a new kind of desert on the horizon
On Friday July 23, 2010, a signal change happened at the Fallingbrook Mall in Orléans: the local branch of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce –...
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Street Names: Works of Fiction
The above photo was taken at a street corner in the far eastern reaches of Orléans; an obscure intersection, but of course its pop-culture reference is...
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Street Names: Wellington, ByWard and By
In recent weeks, we’ve witnessed a debate over whether or not one of the central streets of the downtown core should be renamed. As a result of that...