Lost Ottawa Facebook 2013
Here are all the Lost Ottawa posts that appeared on Facebook in 2013, starting with the most recent and going backwards.
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If it's too cold outside, you could always have yourself photographed on a toboggan in the studio, like Percy and Arthur Onderdonk here, circa 1890.
Tobogganing was so popular in Ottawa at the time, it was thought worthy of a portrait by Topley.
(City of Vancouver AM54-S4-: Port P587.08)
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Depression relief project wear from December of 1933.
The other day we mentioned that Ottawa had more than 20,000 people out of work in the Depression. A series of relief projects camps were set up for the unemployed otherwise homeless.
This is the clothing and kit you received when entering the camp at Rockcliffe Air Station. It would be about all you had in the world.
(PA-035183)
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Your Morning Commute: Assuming you aren't still on holiday -- here is the junction of Wellington and Rideau at Sapper's Bridge, just before 1900. Some nice empty streets. Just a few Ottawa ghosts.
Shot from the Corrie Building, the picture shows the road down to the canal, as well as a driveway in Majors Hill Park, where the Chateau Laurier would be about 15 years later.
(LAC PA-013123)
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Where are you going for New Year's Eve? How about going to see Ottawa fixture Jack McPartlin at the Beacon Arms on Albert. Rooms for the night only 15 bucks!
Jack McPartlin was one of Ottawa's most popular lounge musicians and comic presenter too. He died at age 62 in Year 2000.
And at the Fyfe and Drum -- Telemann. I'm finding it almost impossible to find information about this band apart from the fact that they seem to have been from Toronto.
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Sunday Drive: Just a little farther up the Ottawa from Norway Bay was another favorite getaway spot -- the Pine Lodge Resort in Bristol.
This family owned resort was opened in 1919 and is still there. The Lodge was apparently built in the 1920s, but there were also cabins and a campground.
This is one of those businesses the advent of the automobile made possible -- or at least successful. Getting out of town was one of the main selling points for early cars.
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One of the old timey features of the Bristol/Norway area -- Pop Welche's Grocery. Selling both Pure Spring Pop and RC Cola to cool you down after a trip to the beach.
No date but 1950s or 60s?
(Photo: norwaybay.com)
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Sunday Drive: If this was the summer, you could take the 148 on the Quebec side and drive northwest from Ottawa to Scobie House on Norway Bay in about an hour.
Scobie House, originally called the River View Inn, was a resort hotel built in 1906 among the magnificent pines of the area. The resort was a popular destination for people who wanted to get out of the city. It closed in 1980, after a disastrous fire.
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Heading out for a Saturday Night and some awesome entertainment? In December of 1976, you could have checked out disco band Spectacle -- at least I guess that's their name -- at Ottawa's Embassy West Motor Hotel. Seven guys must have made a helluva show (even if it was disco).
Confess now.
(Ad from the Ottawa Citizen)
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Did someone mention Norway Bay, up the Ottawa River? Not the best picture, but here is the beach in what looks like the 20s.
Dig the swimsuits on the ladies.
(Outaouais Heritage Web Magazine)
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Kids out to play in the snow in an unidentified city park during Ottawa's Winter Carnival, in the 20s.
Bozo the dog refused to be harnessed to the toboggan for a little mushing, but still seems willing to help one of the youngsters with his skiing.
(Alberta on Record, Whyte Museum of the Rockies, CN181.)
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Having breakfast? Rivermen dine at the foot of a huge logjam in the Gatineau River, not far from the capital.
Scene looks tranquil, but the jam could burst at any time, and it was their job to free the logs. I think you can see how dangerous it was.
(Lost the source! Will put it in when I find it.)
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So where are you heading on New Year's Eve? How about the Paddock, next to Connaught Park on the Aylmer Road. You've got Roland Deveze "direct from France," says this ad from the Ottawa Citizen for December 31, 1976.
I hope the "Coupe Paddock" was ... uh ... beef?
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So where are you going for New Year's Eve? Here's four choices for rockin' out from the Ottawa Citizen for December 31, 1977.
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Group of men in the main sleeping hut for Relief Project No. 27 at Ottawa Air Station, as the Rockcliffe Airport was originally known. Date is March 22, 1933.
By the end of that year, there were 22,000 men out of work in Ottawa (out of a total population of 126,872). Relief Project 27 was one of a series of camps across the country, organized by the government to provide men with food and shelter in exchange for work.
There were crowded wooden barracks at Rockcliffe, as well as shack settlements in Brewers Park, Plouffe Park, and the Lees Avenue Dump.
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Something you wouldn't want to do today. Three Rockcliffe Air Force Base personnel testing aircrew survival suits in the Ottawa River on December 27, 1943.
That would wake you up. Brrrr!
(LAC PA-064799)
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Someone mentioned Dome Hill in the Experimental Farm as an excellent spot for some winter activities back in the day. Here's Ottawa three skiers at Dome Hill, sunset in 1931.
This steep slope is actually in the Arboretum.
(CSTM CN34711, via Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies)
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Traditional way to enjoy an Ottawa Boxing Day -- terrifying yourself on a toboggan run.
No place identified for this photo, circa 1952.
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Boxing Day story from the Ottawa Citizen for December 22, 1939. At the time, City Council was voting to make it a Civic Holiday -- so the workers could have a break and there would be no shopping.
Boxing Day has a British history, but story raises a question about how holidays were established before the war and even when Boxing Day became a true holiday.
In the story there were City Council Scrooges who of course declared: "Harrumph, Ottawa already has too many holidays."
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People working off their Christmas dinner, skiing and tobogganing near Bank Street in what I think is Central Park towards the end of Patterson Creek, in the 1920s.
It was the Ottawa improvement Commission that built the driveways, and many of the city's parks. They made a big difference to life here. I love seeing how much the parks are used. That doesn't happen everywhere.
(LAC PA-034354)
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In 1998, I lived in Boston. This is what my Yankee pals gave me for Xmas, saying they had found something to represent the Canadian Dream, as opposed to the American Dream.
You don't see the red coats around Ottawa much these days. And there are darn few horses to kiss.
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Lost Ottawa (right) and his brother congratulate themselves on the superb giant turkey they have cooked. Okay ... it's true ... all we really did was measure the temperature to see that it was finally done.
Hey, we also took it out of the pan. And carved. That counts, right guys?
Hopefully, just about now, today's bird will come out just as nice!
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Lost Ottawa on Kitchen Patrol at my brother's house, a few years back.
Today, we're hosting the Christmas Dinner -- for 26 people -- so this is what I'm doing right about now.
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How did we survive? A wee tyke takes his cool wooden Christmas toboggan down a steep hill, circa 1959.
This youngster grew up to be a fine citizen of Ottawa, but several people have suggested that he has taken more than a few whacks to the noggin ...
(Photo: Lost Ottawa)
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Christmas is the time you visit the family. Here is long time Lost Ottawa contributor on his grandmother's knee in 1948, on Sunnyside Ave.
Lookin' good Barry! Merry Xmas!
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Let the mayhem begin: A leopard jumps on one of my nephews. Must have been confused by the youngster's pj's?
Wreckage of an Ottawa Christmas in the background. Circa year 2000, I think.
(Photo: Lost Ottawa)
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Let the mayhem begin. Ottawa, circa 1985 ... with the Xmas Bunny?
Just for fun I checked the Apple store. There are now 1,233 Bunny Apps.
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Looking out the back window of 89 Queensline Drive in Graham Park, in 1972. Ottawa had a little snow that year. That hedge was 12 feet high!
Extraordinary experience for a boy from Victoria British Columbia, where it never snowed.
(Photo: Lost Ottawa)
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Lost Ottawa wishing you the best for the Holidays!
... with a night shot of Parliament taken in 1965.
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Santa's checking his list, and checking it twice, in front of an awesome looking CN Express truck in 1952.
(CSTM CN 47137)
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High School students working to get those last minute wishes to Santa, by helping sort mail in the Post Office in 1943.
By then, everyone was hoping the war would be over soon. And they would get their wish!
(LAC PA-166789)
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Family poses at Little Italy's Galla Bakery, first located at 597 Somerset, and later on Rochester. I think this is the first bakery, opened in 1920. The bakery flourished on Rochester through the 30s and 40s but closed in the 60s.
(Photo shared by Adele Mayhew).
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Inside Slinn's Bakery in New Edinburgh. On the left, making bread in the kitchen with Ottawa's youngest bakers? On the right, the bread and confectionary shop.
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Young lady strides confidently up the hill in Strathcona Park after a run with her mini-sleigh, meeting an older lady who doesn't look too steady on her skis. The lady doesn't seem to have any poles, so I hope she wasn't about to try her luck!
Ottawa, 1920s. Check out the background.
(LAC PA-034358)
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Let the visiting begin! Holiday snap from at a 1967 Christmas Party on Navaho Drive in Bel Air Park, just east of Woodroofe and Baseline.
To mark the occasion ... That's a 1964 Dodge in the driveway that was almost never driven in the Winter. And if I understand it right, this Dodge still exists?
(Photo: Courtesy of Brian Woodard)
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Future Lost! My camera did a pretty good job of capturing the side entrance to Ottawa City Hall last night.
Beside it the Normal School, now used for offices. It also has a pretty nifty Ottawa sports museum inside.
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More frozen Ottawa to warm your hearts! The ice build up on the mills and in the Ottawa River at Rideau Falls. Imagine working in that building ...
No date on the picture, but the picture is described as "upper falls, McLaren's mills. This would refer to James MacLaren, whose main interests were at Buckingham, but who purchased the New Edinburgh Mills at the Rideau from the McKay estate in 1886. MacLaren became on of the richest people in the Outouais in his time, with a finger in many financial pies. He died in 1892.
(LAC PA-009296)
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Famous picture of Lord and Lady Minto skating on the Ottawa River in December of 1901. Like other Governors General, wives and staff, they embraced this most Canadian of sports.
In the background you can make out the immensity of the industry taking advantage of the water power of the Rideau Falls at the time. Most of it was the lumber, sash and door business of WC Edwards and Co.
(LAC PA-033800)
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Advert for the Ottawa Athletics from a tourist brochure for 1952.
The story seems to be that the AAA Athletics were one of a long line of semi-pro baseball teams we've had, and played at Lansdowne Park from 1952 to 1955. They were a farm team for the Philadelphia Athletics, which moved to Kansas in 1955 and to Oakland in 1968.
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Here's some of the classy action you could see at the Standish Hall in Hull in 1947. Something crazy Latino going on! Where's my time machine when I need it?
Alas, I might need glasses first. I can't quite make out the names in the legend. It appears to be something like Remez LaFlamme, the Gome(r)z Sisters, and Joe Goulet. So its not clear to me if this is a homegrown act, or a travelling group. Ring any bells? or vibes?
(Centre d'archives de l'Outaouais de Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, Fiche 669.)
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