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\"Britannia<\/a><\/p>\n

This story might have started with the publication of Sir Walter Scott<\/a>‘s historical novels such as discussed here previously<\/a>, back in the first half of the 19th Century.<\/p>\n

Or we could date it from 1910 and the founding of the Britannia Highlands syndicate, the group responsible for developing the neighbourhood that is home to these streets.<\/p>\n

At that time, Nepean Township still existed on the maps and in the statute books of Canada and Ontario alike, and Britannia was a farming village in Nepean Township. The village dated from 1819 and the construction of a single log cabin by Captain John LeBreton, but by 1910, Britannia was slowly growing into a kind of hybrid; part summer resort, part suburb of Ottawa.<\/p>\n

The syndicate was officially chartered as “Britannia Highlands Limited” by a group led by Stewart McClenaghan, then a dry-goods retailer but in two years’ time destined to be a member of the Ottawa Board of Control, and a decade later, to be a commissioner of the Ontario Liquor Control Board. He had four partners, including the president of the Ottawa Electric Railroad<\/a>,\u00a0 J. E. Hutcheson. Without that connection to local passenger rail, or the publicity efforts of Ezra Butler Eddy, the grandson of the founder of E. B. Eddy<\/a> , it’s doubtful that the scheme would have succeeded to the degree that it eventually did.<\/p>\n

\"Sir
Sir Walter Scott - Source: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The whole thing was real-estate speculation, plain and simple. The group bought some 200 acres on the heights overlooking the original settlement of Britannia, just south of the Carling-Richmond intersection, filed the paperwork of the day with the appropriate authorities, and started laying down roads and carving up lots to sell.<\/p>\n

The names they chose were particular: clearly someone in the group had an affection for works of the aforementioned Mr. Scott. Thus we have avenues named Dundee<\/strong><\/a>, Ivanhoe<\/strong><\/a> and Rob Roy<\/strong><\/a> on the modern map of Ottawa, a full century after their naming, and long after the novels themselves have fallen out of fashion.<\/p>\n

Britannia Highlands — since conflated with another development named Britannia Heights — became part of Ottawa in the annexations of 1950.<\/p>\n

\"Britannia
Britannia Heights - excerpted from 1926 map of Ottawa-Hull. Source: Ottawa Public Library Ottawa Room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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