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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
You may have seen horse-led carriage or wagon rides in the Byward Market but did you know that there are still horse stables in Lowertown? John Cundell Stables is located along York Street, near Dalho...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Sneezy Waters, Gordon Lightfoot, BB King. These are just a few of the incredible musicians who have played at Ottawa's legendary Le Hibou Coffee House.
Le Hibou's roots...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Has anyone ever told you what lies under the hill in Macdonald Gardens? Between 1845 and 1873, this area was known as the Sandy Hill cemeteries with separate areas for the Episcopalian, Presbyterian, ...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Once known as Colonel’s Hill after Lieutenant-Colonel John By, builder of the Rideau Canal, this area's name was changed when Major Daniel Bolton took up residence on the hill. Ottawa's first park, Ma...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Samuel Bingham never made a penny as Ottawa's mayor in the late 1800s. Each month, he would hand over his paycheque to a local charity – one month to a Catholic group, the next to a Protestant group.
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Ottawa's oldest surviving and largest church was constructed between 1841 and 1853 but it wasn't until 1858 that the two towers received their trademark matching spires. It was a group of Ottawa River...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
By 1869, the Sisters of Charity had outgrown the Lowertown girls' school where the Sisters taught “religious instruction, intellectual development, artistic culture and practical housekeeping.” They m...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Opened in 1890, Saint Brigid's Church was built to serve Lowertown's English-speaking and mainly Irish-Catholic population. Prior to the construction of this massive limestone church, Lowertown's Iris...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
Since 1983, the Shepherds of Good Hope have been providing meals, beds, support and hope for many of Ottawa's homeless. In 1983, St. Brigid's Church allowed a small group of women to prepare a hot lun...
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By Bytown Museum On 03/Dec/2009
In the winter of 1845, six nuns travelled by sleigh down the frozen Ottawa River from Montréal to Bytown. Led by Sister Elizabeth Bruyère, the Sisters of Charity, or Grey Nuns, as they were known,...
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