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Tag: Early Days

  • Early Days

Early Days: From landfill to useable land: How the Ottawa River shoreline was built using garbage

  • by editorkitchissippicom
  • Posted on September 11, 2023September 11, 2023

By Dave Allston The waterfront along the Ottawa River in the west end of Ottawa…

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  • Early Days

Early Days: The Kitchissippi-Parliament Buildings connection

  • by editorkitchissippicom
  • Posted on June 16, 2023

By Dave Allston Some of Kitchissippi’s most famous residents of all time also qualify as…

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LRT construction in Westboro. Machinery works along the parkway.
  • Early Days

What Kitchissippi could have seen: the interprovincial LRT that nearly was

  • by editorkitchissippicom
  • Posted on May 18, 2023

By Dave Allston In the late 19th century, most of Kitchissippi was not yet within…

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An old newspaper clipping showing photos of three of the women.
  • Early Days

She shoots, she scores: The history of women’s hockey in Westboro

  • by editorkitchissippicom
  • Posted on April 21, 2023July 26, 2023

By Dave Allston The movie A League of Their Own brought to life the story…

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Ah old coloured photograph showing a red streetcar. People are crossing the street.
  • Early Days

Early Days: When Holland and Byron was mostly railways

  • by editorkitchissippicom
  • Posted on March 20, 2023March 20, 2023

By Dave Allston The intersection of Holland and Byron was for many years known as…

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A black and white photo of a man taking a hose out of a coal and lumber truck. It’s taken in a residential neighbourhood
  • Early Days

Early Days: From Klondike to Westboro:
How coal and lumber shaped western Ottawa

  • by editorkitchissippicom
  • Posted on February 20, 2023February 20, 2023

By Dave Allston Twenty years have passed since ground was broken for the Metropole building.…

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An old black and white photo showing people inspecting toys that have been fixed.
  • Early Days

Early Days: The forgotten legacy of Hintonburg’s first thrift store

  • by editorkitchissippicom
  • Posted on December 11, 2022

By Dave Allston Ottawa Neighbourhood Services was once a Hintonburg mainstay. For nearly 90 years,…

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  • Early Days

Early Days: Wartime history: Tracking down the “Hintonburg Howitzer”

  • by editorkitchissippicom
  • Posted on November 24, 2022April 1, 2023

By Dave Allston Somerset Square is in the heart of Hintonburg, a landmark meeting point…

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A black and white logo from the 1800s for the Mechanicsville neighbourhood in Nepean.
  • Early Days

150 years of Mechanicsville: The neighbourhood forged through hard work

  • by editorkitchissippicom
  • Posted on October 5, 2022October 5, 2022

By Dave Allston This year marks an incredible milestone in the history of Mechanicsville: 150…

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A black and white portrait of a man in a three piece suit and hat sitting on a wooden bench.
  • Early Days

The doctor is in: Meet Israel Goldwin Smith, Kitchissippi’s first doctor

  • by editorkitchissippicom
  • Posted on September 9, 2022September 17, 2022

By Dave Allston Like out of an old movie or storybook, late-Victorian era Hintonburg was…

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A black and white photo from 1920 outside of a building with the name "Standard Bread." A row of horses stand in a line in front of the business.
  • Early Days

Hampton-Iona’s history: Standard Bread and a community on the rise

  • by editorkitchissippicom
  • Posted on June 14, 2022February 1, 2023

by Dave Allston As shared in part one, by 1909, the future Hampton-Iona neighbourhood had…

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A black and white photo from the early 20th century showing a house and a farm in with chickens in Hintonburg.
  • Early Days

The early history of Hampton-Iona

  • by editorkitchissippicom
  • Posted on May 18, 2022February 1, 2023

By Dave Allston One of the historic hidden gems of Kitchissippi is the neighbourhood of…

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A black and white picture from 1911 of outhouses behind houses on a snowy day in Hintonburg.
  • Early Days

Night soil and honey wagons: Kitchissippi’s role in early Ottawa sanitation

  • by editorkitchissippicom
  • Posted on April 14, 2022April 19, 2022

By Dave Allston Every home in Kitchissippi has a bathroom. Most probably have two or…

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A black and white picture of a department store window featuring two manaquins wearing fur coats and several pictures in frames.
  • Early Days

The tail of the Hampton Park lynx

  • by editorkitchissippicom
  • Posted on March 12, 2022May 6, 2022

By Dave Allston For a brief period a century ago, excitement—and probably a little bit…

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A black and white photo of a group of six men holding guns. There is a stack of trophies in the middle of them. The photo is from the late 1800s.
  • Early Days

Westboro’s renowned gun club of the early 1900s

  • by editorkitchissippicom
  • Posted on February 8, 2022February 8, 2022

By Dave Allston Some of the lesser-known events of the summer Olympics are the shooting…

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