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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
New Edinburgh was founded by Scotsman and stonemason Thomas MacKay, who arrived in Canada in 1817 to help build the Lachine Canal in Montréal. In 1826, he became one of the five main contractors o...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Crichton Street Public School first opened at this site as a two-room schoolhouse in 1875. Over the next 30 years, numerous rooms were added as the population of New Edinburgh increased. By 1906, the ...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Earnscliffe was built between 1855 and 1857 by John MacKinnon, Thomas MacKay's son-in-law. Subsequent owners included Thomas Keefer, another son-in-law of MacKay and Thomas Reynolds, a railway man fro...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Built in 1910, École Saint-Charles was designed by two well-known local architects, Moses C. Edey and Francis C. Sullivan. The pair designed three small schools for the French Catholic School Board ...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
France sent its first diplomatic representative to Canada in 1928. Ambassador Jean Knight immediately began searching for a prestigious building to house the French Embassy. Unable to find a suitabl...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Thomas MacKay built this one-and-a-half storey stone structure in 1837 to house workmen building his large new stone villa, Rideau Hall. MacKay, a Scottish stonemason, made his first fortune building ...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
This picturesque house is famous as the home of Achille Fréchette and his wife, Annie Thomas Howells, a leading literary couple. Annie Howells was the daughter of the United States consul at Québec...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Green Island is best known as the home of the old Ottawa City Hall. Built in 1958, the City Hall was the first building in Ottawa to be fully air-conditioned.
In 1988, a plan to quadruple the size of...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
This one-and-a-half storey frame house was built between 1864 and 1865 for John Henderson, a manager at the Maclaren lumber mills. The Hendersons were among the first families to settle in the New Edi...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
In 1956 and 1957, more than 200,000 Hungarians fled their homes following a nationwide revolt against the Stalinist government of Hungary. The Hungarian Revolution began as a student demonstration and...
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