Images of Centretown

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

On March 12, 2014, I learned via Twitter that 504 Gladstone was on fire. I didn't get there until around 10pm, after it had been success...

Two years ago to the month, the house at 179 Waverley Street in the Golden Triangle suffered a two-alarm fire. The following week I posted ...

St. Paul's church in Aylmer is obviously not in Centretown, but it's in the Ottawa area and its ruins will be demolished today. It w...

Happy Labour Day everyone! For today's post, I want to do something a little different. I wanted to give a snapshot of what was happenin...

One night back in early June (I'm catching up on my backlog!) there was a fire in a walkup apartment at the southwest corner of Bank and...

[Last Wednesday's lengthy pedestrian pushbutton post was followed by a Walk Ottawa meeting in the evening, where all two hours were sp...

Last Monday as my lunch hour was running out, three fire trucks went past where I was eating on Elgin, and chatter on Twitter made it clear ...

Ladder 11 is a fire truck from Fire Station #11 on Preston at Eccles (one block south of Somerset West). It's in Little Italy and just a...

As you probably recall, Tommy & Lefebvre suffered a fire at their Bank & McLeod location on the night of March 30-31 last year. At t...

Long before it was reported in the Citizen , I got a phone call on Wednesday night alerting me to a fire at the Beaver Barracks housing deve...

This afternoon, there was a fire on Bronson which caused traffic to be redirected onto surrounding streets. (Traffic was pretty constant on ...

Last night, on the way home, a dozen or so fire trucks were gathered on Florence between Lyon and Kent. According to one of the neighbours, ...

As mentioned in the post Firefighters Memorial Sneak Peek , there was a ceremony on the 11th to commemorate fallen soldiers in the Ottawa Fi...