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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
For some, Minto Park is the perfect spot to stop and watch the world go by while you enjoy a cup of coffee or gelato from one of the shops on Elgin Street.
Minto Park is also the site of the Ottawa W...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
The Ottawa Curling Club (formerly known as the Bytown Curling Club) was founded in 1851 when the club first played on the Rideau Canal. The Club would later move to a location near the present site of...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
When it opened in 1875, the Ottawa Normal School boasted two entrances, one for women and one for men, as the Victorians preferred it. In fact, the entire institution was divided along gender lines.
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Built in 1891, Pattee/Freiman House is recognizable by its circular conservatory that projects from the west end of the front façade. This late-Victorian mansion was originally owned by lumber baron, ...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Opened in 1969, the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) office building was once voted Ottawa's favourite modern building. With its slim oval structure and warm brown brick, it's easy to see what...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
This four-unit row house was owned by Patrick Connelly Quinn and likely housed some of the labourers hired to build nearby Saint Patrick’s Basilica. It is the only 19th-century, working-class row hous...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Established in 1855, Saint Patrick's Basilica parish was the first English-speaking Catholic parish in Ottawa. In 1869, the parish commissioned Augustus Laver, a partner of Thomas Fuller (architect of...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
The development of Somerset Village, between O’Connor and Bank streets, started in the early 1980s as the city began to understand the benefits of revitalizing urban streetscapes. By 1987, the renewal...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Ottawa is hockey country and it's been that way since the city's early days. In 1923, Ottawa Senators President Edgar Dey opened the 10,000-person-capacity Ottawa Auditorium. While the Auditorium's fa...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
In 1912, Lumber King J.R. Booth built the Shefford apartment building for his daughter, Lila Seybold. At the time, a growing middle class made apartment living fashionable for those who could not affo...
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