Images of Centretown

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...

The Confederation building (1927) and Justice building (1935) on Wellington Street just west of Parliament Hill nicely frame the original Ba...

[Note: I've created a new page on the blog with FAQs about 3D photos. Click the link in the banner at the top of the page.] A familiar...

The weather forecast suggests that we'll be getting another 20-centimetre blast of snow in the next couple of days. This might be my las...

It's the time of year when the weather gets colder and the leaves change colours. It's also Thursday, which means today's post i...

It's cold outside, but the statue of Oscar Peterson , unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on June 30, 2010, has a warm knit cozy ...

Just over a decade ago, the National Aboriginal Veterans Monument was unveiled at Confederation Park, across from the Lord Elgin Hotel on E...

Back in October when the Occupy Ottawa protest was still well-established in Confederation Park, I went by a couple of times to see what the...

It's quite easy to walk all around Centretown and not pass by this monument on the Mackenzie-King Bridge to Canada's fallen in the K...

You've perhaps walked by the little fenced- and hedged-off lot at the corner of Florence and Lyon and never given it a second thought. I...

[Somehow Blogger set this to post at 11:58pm (midnight) instead of 12:00pm (noon). Sorry about the delay.] As promised in the post about Nep...

Despite growing up in Ottawa, I realized I'd never been to Nepean Point when the Citizen reported that the NCC would be taking down the...

Many Centretown businesses take part in the annual Winterlude celebrations, which take place on the first three weekends of February. Many ...

This is Grace Xin (pron: "Shin"), whose tenure as Executive Director of the Somerset Street Chinatown Business Improvement Area (B...