Lansdowne Park
1015 Bank Street
Written 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 exhibition included the first public demonstration of the telephone in Canada.
In 1898, the Aberdeen Pavilion opened. Construction took just two months. The “Cattle Castle,” as many locals know it, is particularly impressive because of its immense column-free interior space. In the 1990s, following much angry debate, the City of Ottawa agreed to refurbish the historic building, which had suffered years of neglect.
Other important Lansdowne Park buildings include the Coliseum, the Horticultural Hall and the Civic Centre, which replaced the Ottawa Auditorium as the city's main arena in the late 1960s.
When this web site went live, a great debate was underway in Ottawa regarding the future of Lansdowne Park. What do you want to see at this central site?
Neighbourhood
Like the rest of Ottawa, the area that would become known as the Glebe was originally a hunting territory for Anishnabe (Algonquin) tribes, principally the Odawa, whose name is commemorated ... read more
