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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
The first agricultural exhibition held on this site occurred in 1875 when Ottawa hosted the 30th annual Exhibition of the Provincial Agriculture and Arts Association. Two years later, another exhibiti...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Opened in 1871, the Mutchmor Trotting Park and Turf Hotel were owned by Ralph Mutchmor and E.C. Barber. The pair rented 48 acres from St. Andrew's Glebe to start the trotting park. It was here that th...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Patterson's Creek originally stretched west from the Rideau Canal to Lyon Street. In the 1890s, as the Glebe was developing quickly, the marshy and wooded area was landscaped and shortened to end near...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
This large institutional structure was built just before World War I as a new home for the original Ottawa Ladies' College (OLC), originally established downtown in the 1870s. Students at the OLC beli...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Built in 1912, the Pretoria Avenue lift bridge replaced an earlier wooden swing bridge on Argyle Street. The central portion of the lift bridge can be elevated to let boats pass underneath. More than ...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
This whimsical Edwardian landmark was built in 1906 for William R. Queale. It remains distinctive among the upper-class homes built in the early 1900s along the Driveway, which the Ottawa Improvement ...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the banks of the Rideau Canal in downtown Ottawa were dotted with wooden boathouses. One of the more impressive boathouses belonged to the Rideau Canoe Club (RCC), l...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Built in 1878, the house of Robert Dewar was one of the earliest to be built on the east side of Bank Street. There were over a dozen similar simple houses built in the Glebe between the late-1870s an...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Built between 1914 and 1924 to the designs of notable Ottawa architect J. Burritt, the monumental copper dome of St. James United Church is a landmark in a city where domed buildings are rare. Dwindli...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Werner Earnest Noffke was one of Ottawa's most prolific and influential architects. To name but a few of his buildings, he designed Postal Station B, the Champagne Bath, the Ottawa South Fire Station ...
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