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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
If you could look down on the National Arts Centre (NAC) from above, you would see a grouping of hexagonal-shaped buildings. The hexagon theme can be found throughout the Centre, down to the custom-ma...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Leading the way are the infantrymen, the mainstay of the army. They are followed by a pilot in full flying kit and an air mechanic. A cavalryman emerges from the arch, and at his side is a mounted art...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Welcome to the future! That was the essential message the Ottawa Hydro Electric Company wished to convey when it commissioned the construction of this office building in 1934.
Electricity had arrived...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
This is the site where Ottawa begins. It was here in the middle of the wilderness in 1826 that work on the Rideau Canal began. And it was from here that the small community, known as Bytown, that woul...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Frustrated by city council's refusal to fund Ottawa's first public library, the Local Council of Women wrote to American philanthropist and library enthusiast Andrew Carnegie in 1901. In response, Car...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Canada's Parliament – as far as Canadian icons go, it's right up there with crimson-clad Mounties, maple syrup and a Tim Hortons' double-double.
The original Parliament Buildings, including the East,...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Next time you're on the Hill, look beyond the striking Parliament Buildings at some of our favourite attractions.
Cat Sanctuary – These well-cared-for felines have been stealing the show on the Hill ...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Designed by architect Werner Ernest Noffke, Postal Station B was opened in 1939 as a postal substation; the main post office was located on Cumberland Street in the Byward Market.
The Noffke building...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
In the early morning hours of the 7th of April 1868, the young Canadian nation was rocked by the assassination of one of the country’s most passionate and eloquent Fathers of Confederation. Thomas D’A...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Sparks Street, named for landowner Nicholas Sparks, was laid out in 1848. Over 20 years earlier, in 1821, Sparks purchased 200 acres of land on the south side of the Ottawa River (most of today's down...
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