History
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Opinion: Renaming Wellington Street would be an act of historical amnesia
Editor’s note: Immanuel Giulea is the Founder and Executive Director of the Société Macdonald-Cartier Society. Ottawa’s civic holiday in August is...
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Preview: Jane’s Walk this weekend
With 35 captivating neighbourhood-based walks on the program, this year’s edition of Jane’s Walk promises to be the most deliciously diverse...
By Evan Thornton -
WWJJD? Centretown through Jane Jacobs’ eyes
Editor’s note: How powerful is the written word? Sometimes to gauge the impact of a writer we have to imagine what our world would be like without...
By David McClelland -
The laneways of West Wellington
This week the Citizen’s David Reevely ran an excellent post on Ottawa’s neglected laneway system, which has largely been allowed to disappear...
By Evan Thornton -
The Line of Parting: Ottawa’s Two Sublimes
You might remember the ink spilled several months ago over Maria Cook’s Ottawa Citizen article revealing plans for a 10-storey Roxy Paine sculpture...
By Daniel Velarde -
Hop on board with a deadman for another “Where in Ottawa”
With last week’s post on the old Ottawa streetcar system fresh in out minds, this edition of Where In Ottawa tests your knowledge of Ottawa transit...
By Chris Warden -
Streetcar elegy
Between Tonya Davidson’s post on the Centennial year and the above video of Ottawa’s old streetcar system, it seems it is History Week here at...
By Spacing -
The ‘Last Good Year’: Revisiting the Centennial Craze
1967 was a good year— the “last good year” according to Pierre Berton. Canada’s centennial sparked centennial-project craze across the country. I first...
By Tonya Davidson -
Baseline + 25
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Mayoral Ottawa: from Fun Frank to Fisher’s Folly
When it was recently announced that Jim Watson would be joining the mayoral race, I began to think about mayors and their stamps of the city’s built...
By Tonya Davidson -
Where in Ottawa, Round 2: time for the cheat sheet
No one has correctly guessed the correct answer to last week’s puzzler. To refresh memories, here it is again: While I currently sit unassumingly at...
By Chris Warden -
The history of the Ottawa subway
As Ottawa takes decisive steps toward giving itself a downtown subway, it is fascinating to find that this is actually the fourth time that plans for...
By Alain Miguelez