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  • Letter to Mayor and City Council: Chateau Laurier

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      Letter sent by Lowertown Community Association to Mayor and City Council before July 10 Council Meeting in support of the motion that Council should rescind the permit as Chateau Laurier have not fulfilled the conditions of the heritage permit.                                                                                  July 7, 2019 Mayor and City CouncilCity of Ottawa110 Laurier Avenue WestOttawa, ON K1P 1J1 Reference:…

  • Heritage Home Restoration Funding Available

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    Have you a restoration project in mind for your home?Avez-vous un projet de restauration en tête pour votre maison? March 29th is the City of Ottawa’s deadline for applying for an external restoration project. Learn more at: ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/planning-and-development/heritage-conservation/heritage-grant-program-building-restoration If you own a property that is in a Heritage Conservation District (and is a Category 1,…

  • MacDonald Gardens Park designation – Carleton University students contribution

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    MacDonald Gardens Park, recently received a Heritage Designation. A great read on the Carleton University students who helped kickstart the initiative and make it happen here.

  • Echos of a lost building

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    The CapitalModern.ca website publishes features about “modern architecture” in the national capital region, generally regarding works constructed during the years of 1945-1975.  The site has dedicated a page to before and after pictures of the Union du Canada demolition and the new construction site at Dalhousie and York streets in Lowertown. Last month Capital Modern added a research document…

  • First public timepiece in Ottawa

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    Anyone interested in Lowertown history should read the April 28, 2014 article on Urbsite about the former General Hospital–now called Bruyère Hospital–at the corner of Sussex and Bruyère.It includes this fascinating fact: ‘The addition on the second storey of a matching pair of sundials, in 1851, was designed by Father Jean-François Allard, a geometry teacher. These…

  • What’s in a name? York Street

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    York Street gets its name from that “Grand Old Duke of York” referenced in the familiar children’s nursery rhyme. When Colonel By founded Bytown and laid out the street plan for Lowertown, Prince Frederick, second son of King George III and Queen Charlotte, was the Duke of York and Albany. Although this duke died in…