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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
For the sake of the Capital Neighborhoods website, the boundaries of Centretown West have been extended north to the Ottawa River and south to Dow's Lake. The history of this enlarged area takes in mu...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
In 1945, Albert (Chappy) Carmanico returned to Ottawa after serving in World War II. At that time, Chappy and his wife Mary lived at 438½ Preston Street with their six children (with one more on the w...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Dow's Lake was originally known as Dow's Great Swamp and it extended from the Rideau River all the way to the Ottawa River, a distance of over six kilometres. The swamp was named for Abraham Dow who o...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Built in 1874, the Fleet Street Pumping Station and Aqueduct, Ottawa's first waterworks, were designed by Thomas Coltrin Keefer, one of the continent's top hydraulic and civil engineers. The design in...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
The town of Richmond (in southern Ottawa) was settled in 1818 by veterans of the War of 1812. The Richmond Road, a corduroy road, ran from the new settlement north to the Chaudière Falls where settl...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
The scale and severity of the Great Fire of 1900 that destroyed Lebreton Flats and much of Hull drew international attention, and donations to a relief fund poured in from around the world, totalling ...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
When the Great Fire of 1900 swept through Hull and Ottawa, the houses along Lorne Avenue were destroyed. The limestone bluff at Nanny Goat Hill, just behind Lorne Avenue, helped to slow the fire's pro...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Under the Queensway overpass on Preston Street, or Corso Italia, you will find a series of murals that portray life in Ottawa's Little Italy. Sponsored by local businesses and community organizations,...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Part of the rail line on which Ottawa's O-Train runs was built by the Bytown and Prescott Railway as part of their line that ran from the town of Prescott to Sussex Drive in the mid-1800s. The line wa...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Founded in 1888, the Ottawa Humane Society was originally known as the Women's Humane Society and at the time it concerned itself with the welfare of children, the elderly and animals. In 1896, the so...
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