by Lost Ottawa | May 2, 2021 | Automobile History, News
We continue with our latest obsession of trying to identify Ottawa’s earliest automobiles. Today we have a great candidate. It’s Professor Achille Phillion’s magnificent steam-powered “quadricycle.” According to the newspapers, Professor Phillion drove his quadricycle...
by Lost Ottawa | Apr 18, 2021 | Automobile History, News
We’ve been looking for Ottawa’s earliest documented automobiles. So far we have Thomas Ahearn of the Ottawa Electric Railway driving an electric car on the streets of the capital on September 11, 1899. The next documented person to drive a car in Ottawa is George...
by Lost Ottawa | Apr 4, 2021 | Automobile History, News
Last week we went looking for Ottawa’s first automobile and came up with a definite candidate. According to both the Ottawa Citizen and the Ottawa Journal, the capital’s first documented automobile was an electric car driven on the streets of Ottawa by Thomas...
by Lost Ottawa | Mar 28, 2021 | Automobile History, News
The Ottawa Journal had the scoop, and it appeared on page seven of the evening newspaper on September 11, 1899. The story read: “The automobile has made its first appearance in Ottawa. This morning hundreds of people gazed at the horseless carriage speeding...
