{"id":7265,"date":"2011-11-30T13:15:59","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T18:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingottawa.ca\/?p=7265"},"modified":"2013-01-21T09:19:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:19:26","slug":"maintenant-et-avant-elgin-laurier-1939-c-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2011\/11\/30\/maintenant-et-avant-elgin-laurier-1939-c-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Maintenant et avant: Elgin @ Laurier \u2013 1939 c. 2011."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/alexlaq\/6711772409\/\" title=\"Elgin-Laurier by alexlaq, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7157\/6711772409_6e0aa54021_z.jpg\" width=\"446\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Elgin-Laurier\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cette photo a \u00e9t\u00e9 prise en 1939 apr\u00e8s l\u2019\u00e9largissement d\u2019Elgin. On peut voir \u00e0 droite les appartements Roxborough qui furent d\u00e9molis (ainsi que plusieurs autres b\u00e2timents) pour faire place au parc de la conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration tel que dict\u00e9 par le plan Gr\u00e9ber. L\u2019\u00e9glise \u00ab First Baptist Church \u00bb que l\u2019on peut entrevoir est toujours d\u00e9bout. \u00c0 noter que l\u2019h\u00f4tel Lord Elgin est absent de la photo puisqu\u2019il ne f\u00fbt \u00e9rig\u00e9 qu\u2019en 1941.<\/p>\n<p><em>This picture was taken in 1939 just after Elgin Street was widened. Roxborough apartments (as well as many other buildings) were demolished to make room for the Confederation Park as proposed in the Greber Plan. To the far left, the First Baptist Church is hardly visible, while the Lord Elgin Hotel, built in 1941, did not exist at the time the picture was taken.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cette photo a \u00e9t\u00e9 prise en 1939 apr\u00e8s l\u2019\u00e9largissement d\u2019Elgin. On peut voir \u00e0 droite les appartements Roxborough qui furent d\u00e9molis (ainsi que plusieurs autres b\u00e2timents) pour faire place au parc de la conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration tel que dict\u00e9 par le plan Gr\u00e9ber. L\u2019\u00e9glise \u00ab First Baptist Church \u00bb que l\u2019on peut entrevoir est toujours d\u00e9bout. \u00c0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2011\/11\/30\/maintenant-et-avant-elgin-laurier-1939-c-2011\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Maintenant et avant: Elgin @ Laurier \u2013 1939 c. 2011.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7093,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5302,5304],"tags":[4244,336,540,384,3852],"class_list":["post-7265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-history","tag-baptist-church","tag-historical","tag-maintenant-et-avant","tag-photo-of-the-day","tag-this"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Maintenant et avant: Elgin @ Laurier \u2013 1939 c. 2011. - Spacing Ottawa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2011\/11\/30\/maintenant-et-avant-elgin-laurier-1939-c-2011\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Maintenant et avant: Elgin @ Laurier \u2013 1939 c. 2011. - Spacing Ottawa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cette photo a \u00e9t\u00e9 prise en 1939 apr\u00e8s l\u2019\u00e9largissement d\u2019Elgin. 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