Images of Centretown

Part 12: 50 Years of Rapid Transit in Ottawa     [Show/Hide Contents] NCC Boost and Interprovincial Bus Loop Regional studies lead to fir...

Part 11: Portage Bridge     [Show/Hide Contents] Options for crossing the Ottawa River Splitting Wellington again Finishing touches Bri...

Part 10: Nepean Bay and the Ottawa River Parkway     [Show/Hide Contents] Nepean Bay Infill Ottawa River Parkway Closing Britannia Terra...

Part 9: The NCC's distractions (early-mid 1960s)     [Show/Hide Contents] Sparks disconnection and the Garden of the Provinces LeBret...

Part 8: Viaduct traffic, Journaled     [Show/Hide Contents] History written by the whiners 'Battle of the Bridge' Bayview slip l...

Part 7: Dawn of "Modern" Transportation Planning in Ottawa     [Show/Hide Contents] 1955 Traffic and Transportation Plan for Ott...

Part 6: Postwar traffic on Wellington     [Show/Hide Contents] Jacques Gréber's Downtown plan, 1939 Gréber's 1949 Plan for Canada...

    [Show/Hide Contents] 1880 Renaming of George Street, Victoria Terrace, and Richmond Road Railway Crossings Great big fires 1908 Renam...

    [Show/Hide Contents] The Fortress at Barrack Hill Wagon Trail to Sappers' Bridge Sparks Street Extension to the Canal Wellington ...

    [Show/Hide Contents] The first European settlers The earliest roads Eponyms of the earliest roads Establishing Wellington Street and ...

You may already know that Ottawa has both a Wellington Street and a Wellington Street West, but it was not always so simple. A man standing ...

Christopher Ryan had a timely post on Ottawa Start about Connor Court , describing one of the low-rise apartment buildings built in the fir...

Today for the fourth and final entry of the sidewalk-design series, I'm going to give a history of sidewalk design, starting at the esta...

After picking up my mail from the Sparks Street post office last week, I noticed a plaque on the entrance to 56 Sparks which I hadn't b...

When the LeBreton Flats saw the arrival of the "road header" tunneling machine, its disembodied chewing tool seen here, an old Elm...

I was doing some research for a post about sidewalks that I'll hopefully pull together one of these days, when I came across this entry ...

In case you haven't heard , Jane's Walk Ottawa happens this weekend. I haven't given any since the Rescue Bronson Jane's Wa...

The Athlone Apartments, 225 MacLaren Street. Unfortunately, I can't find any information online about the building's history, date b...

The Alliance Française has its headquarters at 352 MacLaren Street, and they have an annex building at 342 MacLaren within the Centretown H...

Recently some workers have been spotted on Laurier Avenue affixing drywall to the central podium section of the l'Esplanade Laurier offi...