History
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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...
By Dwight Williams -
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...
By Dwight Williams -
Ottawa Knowledge: who will be Team Awesome?
____ What’s that you say — a pub quiz for Ottawa history buffs? No tedious questions about brat-pack movies of the 1980s or tortuous...
By Spacing -
Le musée des beaux-arts & la première imprimerie du Canada – vers 1910 & 2011
La basilique Notre-Dame et le Musée des beaux-arts du Canada vus du parc Major’s Hill. Le musée occupe ce qui fut jadis l’emplacement de la première...
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Maintenant et avant: Sparks @ Wellington 1885 – 2011
Jadis, Sparks débutait sur Wellington via le pont Dufferin. Ce pont n’existe plus aujourd’hui ainsi que le bureau de poste et l’hôtel Russell...
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Renovating 24 Sussex: a nation’s heritage should trump temporary inconvenience
_____ When future generations want to visit the site where the Prime Ministers who shaped our nation lived, where will they go? 24 Sussex is a toponym in...
By Andrea Puktaris -
Ottawa : maintenant et avant
_______ Cette comparaison entre une photo d’archives et une photo plus actuelle est la première d’une série où l’on tentera de mettre en contraste...
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The Daly Building Revisited
[flickrslideshow acct_name=”66414821@N06″ id=”72157627435525540″] No other Ottawa building, before or after its demolition, has...
By Mike Steinhauer -
DOUCET: “Beauty counts”- how Budapest cherishes its World Heritage status
On a bronze plaque, high above the Danube where you have a grand view of the bridges, the Hungarian parliament buildings and the beautiful 19th century...
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“The essential document of the formative years of Ottawa”
Our friends at the Bytown Museum have news of a book release by by Robert Serré, with images from the museum’s unique collection 0f 19th century...
By Spacing -
Spacing Ottawa’s first Gowalla trip
Cribbing madly from John Leaning’s “Hintonburg and Mechanicsville: A Narrative History“, and the Hintonburg Community Association...
By Spacing -
The “Grand Dames”: Ottawa’s historic apartment buildings
[flickrslideshow acct_name=”58115594@N04″ id=”72157625788601334″] __________________ The Bytown Museum explores the stories of an...
By Mike Steinhauer