Sandy Hill
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
When development began in earnest in Sandy Hill in the 1860s, the area was a desolate place. For 30 years the trees in the area had been logged to build houses and warm the growing communities of Lowe...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
One of Sandy Hill’s oldest buildings, Besserer House was constructed for the neighbourhood’s founder, Louis-Théodore Besserer. Besserer was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada in ...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
This group of buildings, today home to Arts Court, the Saw Gallery and the HI Ottawa Jail Hostel, was also the site of one of Canada's last public hangings. On a cold February morning in 1869, 5,000 p...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
The City Registry Office seems out-of-place somehow, sitting in the shadow of the Rideau Centre on Nicholas Street. Built in 1873, it housed the city's registry records until 1909, including deeds, mo...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
The first Cummings Bridge, erected in 1836, linked Bytown and Gloucester. The bridge crossed the Rideau River, via the island lying just south of today's bridge, where the Cummings family lived and ra...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Today, Dutchie's Hole is home to a summer wading pool, dog park and cycling trails. If you're lucky, you can catch sight of turtles, great blue herons and flocks of ducks nearby. Years ago, Dutchie's ...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Range Road is known to many locals as Embassy Row. Take a short drive down Range Road and you can see why. You will pass the colourful flags and stately embassies of Burkina Faso, the Democratic Repub...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Most Rideau Centre shoppers don’t realize they are shopping in a historic building. Known as the Transportation Building, it was commissioned in 1916 for C. Jackson Booth (son of Lumber King J.R. Boot...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
This eclectic Victorian house belonged to famed Ottawa photographer Samuel J. Jarvis. Not to be confused with his uncle (also a photographer named Samuel Jarvis), Samuel J. Jarvis opened a studio with...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Originally built in 1878 for jeweller John Leslie, Laurier House is best-known as the home of two Canadian prime ministers, Sir Wilfrid Laurier and William Lyon Mackenzie King.
Laurier and his ...
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