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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Like the Champagne Bath on King Edward Avenue, the Plant Bath (named for Ottawa Mayor Frank Plant) was opened in 1924 as part of a growing public health movement.
Always one to enjoy a good time, May...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Opened in 1934, the Prescott Hotel is one of Ottawa's oldest existing taverns. When the Prescott first opened its doors, there was seating for 25, and three 12-ounce glasses of beer went for a quarter...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Preston Street Hardware has been a fixture in Little Italy since original owners Angelo Locatelli and William Germain opened the store in 1945. After a renovation in the early 1950s, it became Ottawa'...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Built in the mid-1960s at the intersection of Gladstone Avenue and Booth Street, Rochester Heights was one of the first social housing complexes in Ottawa. Some of its earliest residents were those fo...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
In 1996, a scout for the Colorado Rockies baseball team asked Ottawa resident and wood-carver Sam Holman if he could build a baseball bat that would be less inclined to break than the bats commonly us...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Opened in 1971 by the Kwan family, the Shanghai was Ottawa's first Chinese restaurant in what is now known as Chinatown. As the business was handed over to the next generation, the restaurant's interi...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Originally known as Dalhousie Community Services (as it operated in the old Dalhousie Ward), the Somerset West Community Health Centre operated from an office situated above the Capital House Tavern o...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
St. Anthony's Church is considered by many as the heart of Ottawa's Italian community. The congregation dates back to 1908, when the Italian community first attended masses in a church on Murray Stree...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
George Francis Venn constructed this exceptionally large brick double after the Great Fire of 1900 devastated Rochesterville and most of west-end Ottawa. Venn, a shipping agent for a nearby lumber man...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Much of Ottawa's early history has passed by the shores of Victoria Island, from the people of the Algonquin (or Odawa) nation to the arrival of Samuel de Champlain to the thousands of timber rafts ...
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