Lost Ottawa Facebook 2019
Here are all the Lost Ottawa posts that appeared on Facebook in 2019, starting with the most recent and going backwards.
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Toon Dreesen shares a story about this Ottawa building, which is actually located on Hinton Avenue in Hintonburg.
You may have wondered about it while wandering around the neighbourhood. It's the old Capital Wire Cloth factory.
The story is from a site called "Newest" -- and eight years old. Perfect for Lost Ottawa!
January 12, 2012: Hintonburg’s Capital Wire Cloth Factory Designated as Heritage. - NEWSWEST on-line
newswest.org
Hintonburg’s Capital Wire Cloth Factory Designated as Heritage. By Linda Hoad This year the designation of the Capital Wire Cloth Factory at 7 Hinton Avenue was approved by City Council. This approv...17 CommentsComment on Facebook
Carolyn Fay shares the Morning Puzzler with this picture from Metcalfe, Ontario, about 40 minutes south of Ottawa and just east of Bank Street.
Looks like a carriage maker?
Writes Carolyn:This was found at a garage sale in metcalfe Ontario. Im hoping someone can tell me anything about it.
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Debbi Burnie shares a a fabulous photo of ten ladies visiting downtown Ottawa. Love their attire, especially the hats!
Writes Debbi:Found this photo in an old album of my grandparents Hindson’s 1918. The partial parliament buildings in Ottawa in the background
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Sunday Drive ... from Ottawa to Edelweiss in this mud-covered Chevy for a nice day on the slopes in 1968.
Or you could take the Tommy & Lefebvre bus from downtown, which is unloading its passenger in the background.
(LAC e99906731)
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Sunday Drivers ... featuring an assemblage of some of Ottawa's earliest automobiles, thought to be on the lawn outside City Hall, when it was located at Elgin and Queen (now the NAC).
The occasion is described as a meeting of the Ottawa Old Boys celebrating Ottawa's Golden Jubilee in 1904. On the photo it says, "City's first automobile parade."
Only the car at front left looks like an actual car. The others are more like contraptions than cars! But still, there are quite a few of them for such an early date.
(Bytown Museum P471)
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Earlier today we had a picture of Ottawa's wood market on William street in the Byward circa 1920.
Here's three pictures of how the wood got to the market -- dragged by horse and wagon across the frozen Ottawa River from Pointe Gatineau.
The third picture shows a load going up a hill, and at first I though this was beside the canal. The more I think if it the more I suspect its actually above the old Queen's Wharf on the other side of Nepean Point, below the Mint.
(LAC PA-085979, 6003, and 2007)
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Roy Tubman shares some Ottawa swag!
It's from the RPT TV and appliance store on Sparks Street.
Writes Roy:Remember when you needed to read the temperature from a thermometer that was early "swag" for a Ottawa business.
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Saturday Shopping in Lost Ottawa ... where you might head downtown to the "wood market" to pick up some fuel to keep you and your family warm in 1922.
As near as I can tell, the wood merchants seem to have traditionally congregated on William Street and you are looking south on William towards the corner of William and York.
The building on the far corner (to the right) is now the Fish Market restaurant, the building to the left of that has been many things over the years including Stony Monday's and Fat Tuesday's. Now it's a Starbucks.
(LAC PA-085978)
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Friday Night in Lost Ottawa, with cabbies waiting for winter business on Wellington Street in 1914.
Looks like the customers could stay warm inside the cabs, but the drivers still had to sit outside the freezing cold. Imagine one of these pulling up after you ordered your cab on Uber!
Chateau Laurier and the "Daly Building" in the background when it was still the A.E. Rea Department Store.
(LAC PA-060985)
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Nice "Winter in Ottawa" pic here, taken near the end of Fifth Avenue in the Glebe, and looking north up the Rideau Canal.
To my eyes it looks the person there in the middle of the canal is pushing a bicycle. One of the first to pioneer bicycling in snow?
In the background you can make out the wooden bridge they used to build across the canal in Winter through the '50s and into the '60s
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Marie Clausén shares a Christmas Puzzler about this collection of Xmas carols from the Ottawa Citizen.
Writes Marie:
"I have this old carolling booklet published by the Ottawa Citizen and would love to know when it is from. Can anyone give theyear?"
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Stephane Vermette shares an awesome Christmas find! I wonder if it gets better over the years like wine?
Notes Stephane:In my 80-year old mother’s basement. This has some age.
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Deannie Lunyk shares a picture of a Princess Elizabeth at an Ottawa square dancing party in 1951, when she was on a cross-country tour filling in for her ailing father.
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De Gooyer Steven shares a post about the "proving grounds" out in what is now Ottawa's east end.
Explains Steven:
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For those of you who missed our greetings this morning, here's a Season's Greetings just for you, featuring a Tuck "Oilette" postcard from around 1905.
This one has several of Ottawa "most lost" items in it -- the Russell House on the left and the Old Post Office in the middle, plus the ramshackle tin-roofed stairway down to Union Station before it was Union Station.
Last but not least ... my favourite thing about Ottawa in those times, namely the huge empty triangle in front of the Old Post Office, with the Sappers and Dufferin Bridges on either side.
Hope you are stuffed with turkey right now, like I am!
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It's a little small, but it's still a picture of Santa in Ottawa. He's on his way to Freiman's Toyland in November 10, 1955.
Santa had just arrived at Union Station on the Santa Mystery Special from Vars, where he had flown in by helicopter. Thousands of kids got to take the train with Santa over the years.
Looks like the reindeer are taking him into the now lost Mosgrove Street.
(City of Ottawa Archives CA041795)
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Christmas Greetings from Lost Ottawa!
And what better way to celebrate the day than a nice Tuck Oilette postcard, featuring the Lost Parliament Buildings sometime around 1905.
If only it was warm enough for nice drive around Parliament Hill in an open car!
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If you're desperate for something new to watch on an Ottawa Xmas Eve, here's Santa, some sidewinders, and the Old West.
NFB animated short from Archive.org.
The Great Toy Robbery : National Film Board of Canada : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Producer, Wolf Koening, Bob Verrall ; Director, Jeff Hale ; Story, Derek Lamb ; Animation, Jeff Hale, Cameron Guese ; Music, Don Douglas
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Santa delivers the gift of Canada, right here in Ottawa.
Goofy picture, I know, but it's just to say Merry Xmas and Best Wishes for the Season while we slack off over Christmas!
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For those of you who can't find an open bar on Christmas Eve, here's some Ottawa bar history from Linda Seccaspina.
Cheers, and here's hoping Santa gives you what you hope for in the next year!
From Carleton Place to “the Laff” — The Life and Times of Peter Prosser Salter
lindaseccaspina.wordpress.com
Photo- Ottawa Tourism Years ago I used to love reading the bathroom walls of “The Laff” on York Street when I frequented there. I had no idea about the history nor did I care. Sa…6 CommentsComment on Facebook
We're borrowing a great item from our friends at the Bytown Museum -- the Santa Streetcar put on by the Ottawa Electric Railway in 1896.
Check out the size of the crowd, looking west down Sparks Street from the balcony of the of Russell House hotel.
Who knew Santa could drive a streetcar as well as a sleigh!
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Doesn't look like we'll have a White Christmas in Ottawa this year, but we can still have a Snow Puzzler!
And the question is ... apart from the issue of our poor forebearers who had this much snow in May of 1907 ... would anyone care to hazard a guess as to where this is?
I'm guessing Rockcliffe Park or the Arboretum.
Question shared by Phil Culhane.
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We'll get it back one day, but meanwhile André Dupuis shares a report about will be one of the longest construction jobs in recent Ottawa history -- the renovation of Parliament Hill.
Writes Andre:
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Jaan Kolk is hoping for an extra-special Ottawa Christmas present!
Writes Jaan:
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Shovelling snow in Ottawa takes years of practice, and you have to start young!
Shared by Christine Deriger Stinson, who writes:
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Camp Fortune has been a favorite of Ottawa skiers for decades, but once it was a haven for ski-jumpers as well, who made great use of the Lockeburg Jump.
The jump was named after Sigurd Lockeberg, who moved to Ottawa from Norway in 1905, and built Ottawa's first ski-jump in Rockcliffe Park in 1909-10.
I found some clips of brave souls (possibly all the same guy) going off the jump in 1964.
I guess skiiing has its fashion, too, and ski-jumping is no longer popular in the capital region. Of course, that could be because all the ski jumps have disppaeared ...
(NFB Shot 23538)
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Parkin' on Parliament! I don't know why this is one of my favourite Lost Ottawa subjects, but here we are in what appears to be the late 1940s, earl '50s.
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Sunday Drive just outside Ottawa circa 1900, shared by Donald Legault. Dress up warm!
Writes Don:One hundred or so years ago this is how we would have travelled to visit relatives during the holidays. This photo was taken in front of Philibert Dubé's house in Lemieux, approximately 10 miles from Casselman. All that remains of Lemieux is the cemetery since the town has been abandoned due to the instability of the soil. The youngster near the front of the horse is Réal Denis. He his a grandson of Philibert and was born in 1914 dating this photo to the early 1920s.
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Here's a short video for the holiday season from Lost Ottawa. It's a steam train full of skiers arriving in Wakefield from Ottawa in 1949.
Now that would have been a nice way to spend a Winter day!
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Your music for Christmas Week in 1968 as recorded in CFRA's Ottawa's Top 40. "Love Child" by Diana Ross and the Supremes at Number 1, which seems to have been trading places with "Abraham, Martin and John" that month.
Several other classics in there, but after all these years I'm thinking Joe Cocker "With a Little Help From My Friends" might be the one I'd put on the record player right now, or else "Magic Carpet Ride!"
I notice they put the correct date on the cover of the Swing Set, but left the previous week's date on the the list itself. Still, Season's Greetings!
(Shared by Ken Clavette)
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Stopping in at the Imperial Esso Station, identified as being at Baseline and Woodrooffe in 1964. Looking at GeoOttawa, it seems it was across from Shoppers City rather than right on the corner.
I'm thinking that is a 1961 Oldsmobile on the left, with it's weird "under fins." But the convertible on the right has me beat! A '59 Hillman Minx, perhaps?
I'll take one of those under the Christmas Tree, please!
(Glenbow IP-12-27c-34)
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Postcards from not quite Ottawa, shared by Steven Keenan. Maniwaki and La Verendrye Park.
Notes Steven:Not quite Ottawa postcards, a couple of places a little over an hour north.
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Trevor Button shares just the thing for a Friday Night in Lost Ottawa -- a picture of winter drag racing.
It looks like they even had their own "Christmas Tree," meaning those lights on the right that that flashed from yellow to green and even to red, if one driver jumped off too quick.
Writes Trevor:
"Here's a picture I just found among my thousands of old kodachromes, entitled "Carleton Hill Drag 1968." Not sure of any details beyond that. Assume Carleton University?"
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The Conservatory in Major's Hill Park, circa 1905, which supplied Ottawa's first park (est. 1875) with its own flowers.
I'm not one hundred percent certain, but it looks like the front "gazebo" part of this building was modified into what is now Header House (also Tavern on the Hill), when the greenhouse complex was dismantled in 1937-38.
To the left is the old Government Printing Bureau, located more or less where the National Gallery is now. Appropriate, because this picture by Emile Lacas is in the collection of the National Gallery (31386.40).
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Your Original Morning Commute from Hull to Ottawa, shared by Dom Gvr.
Shared by Dom Gvr, who explains:
"Found an image of this plate yesterday. Of particular interest to me is what I believe to be the first bridge spanning the main channel of the Ottawa River at Chaudiere Falls, predating the wood truss bridge completed in 1828.
Described as "a hempen bridge consisting of four three-inch hawsers, was swung across the river, forming an inverted segment, the lowest point of which stood about seven feet above the dark and swift stream, whilst its extremities were elevated upwards of 32 feet, abutting upon the perpendicular limestone walls of the channel. It admitted the passage of pedestrians, although the attempt, with the unpracticed especially, was not made without some consciousness of danger"
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Here's something a little unusual for you history buffs -- it's a podcast called Finished Girls, which is a sort of comedy/history show about Ottawa and its red light district in the 1880s.
Here's part of the promo from Comedy Network writer Rick Kaulbars:
"It’s the 1880s in Canada’s capital, and one of the busiest brothels in Ottawa’s red light district is hastily preparing for the return of their core clientele… lumbermen. But change is in the air and as the newly installed federal government begins to influence daily life in the city, the women of “Cluster’s Finishing School” have told their manipulative pimp that they’re done with the game. This is the story of their final season and a city in transition."
It's really more of radio play, with eight episodes you can listen to online at:
www.finishedgirls.ca/episodes/
Want a teaser? Check out this link:
www.facebook.com/watch/?v=358852928386410
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Alan Kay shares a photo of what looks like it could be a Christmas Party.
Check out the trousers of the guy on the left. Please tell me those are not hip again!
Says Alan:
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Some of you will be baking up a storm this week in preparation for Christmas -- and you might be using age-old recipes from this cookbook, popular in Ottawa and elsewhere.
Shared by Lee Anne Graston, who writes:
"I bought this cookbook recently at a work book sale. It's the 1956 version. For the short time I had it on my desk before bringing it home, I got several comments from co-workers who remembered their mothers having this cookbook.
I am hoping to try some of the recipes, although some will no longer appeal to our tastes. I particularly like the dedication to Canadian housewives!"
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Gilles Paquette shares a fine assemblage fruit adverts.
Reminds me of my youth working for Ottawa fruit vendors Top Banana on Merivale and then Shulman's in the Bayshore Mall, but also of Xmas and those crates of mandarins oranges my Mom would buy -- but only for the holiday season.
Writes Gilles:
"A friend and I renovated an old cottage Chelsea in the early '90s, where we found these old crate advertisement used as part of the under flooring. Maybe someone may recognize them as they were well before my time ... cheers!"
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Night Out in Lost Ottawa, Christmas Edition ... where you could be greeted by this Santa in the once famous Canadian Grill at the Chateau Laurier.
Opened along with the last major expansion of the Chateau in 1929, the Grill was often referred to as the "Third House of Parliament," because so many deals were brokered there.
The Grill closed in 1991, which makes me wonder ... where do the politicos go now?
(CSTM CN H-400, originally taken for the Canadian Food Journal)
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