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Here's a Sunday Drive waiting to happen ... well a Sunday Ride, anyway. It's a Supercycle of ancient vintage spotted downtown recently.
It's also a convertible. The crossbar at the top is made out of tin. You could remove it to turn this into a "girl's bike," as we use to say.
Good for the day when your sister "grows into it," although I should say the whole bike is about 30 inches high.
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Here's the last of our pedestrian bridge time-lapse videos. We've gone east to west, so this time it's the Terry Fox pedestrian bridge in Kanata.
I know I say you never see anyone in them when you are driving underneath ... which was exactly the case when I drove under four of them today (I checked as I went by). But in fact, each time I went to make a video, wouldn't you know it, there was always somebody on each bridge. Kanata was probably the busiest, followed by the Jackie Holzman/Harmer Avenue bridge.
I'm using the series to draw attention to the Lost Ottawa YouTube channel where we've got many videos already and will be posting more every week. If you subscribe, you'll be notified when a new video is posted.
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Here we go with a fourth walk over an Ottawa pedestrian bridge -- this time the Jackie Holzman pedestrian bridge you see over the Queensway near the Parkdale exit.
It connects the two halves of Harmer Avenue, right beside right beside the old Fisher Park High School (which is now a community centre and middle school, I believe).
View the video on our YouTube channel and subscribe or give the movie a like there. Any or all of those things will help us out.
Thanks to all the people who have subscribed so far!
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For those of you who didn't see it already, here's a walk over another Ottawa pedestrian bridge -- this time the Max Keeping Pedestrian Bridge over the Queensway, just east of the Vanier Parkway.
This bridge connects the parking lot of the baseball stadium on Coventry to the transit and train stations on Tremblay Road.
I guess it could get a lot of use if the stadium held more events, but the stadium is about as empty as the bridge most of the time. Seems like it would be a good place for small outdoor concerts and such?
You can see this video and more on the Lost Ottawa YouTube channel. Give it a like on YouTube. Subscribe! Once it reaches a certain threshold, good things will happen -- like I can actually give my channel a real name instead of a number!
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We're back with a new video in which we walk the Blair Road Pedestrian Bridge ... now there's excitement for you!
This is the second of five bridge videos we'll be posting this week. Goofy stuff, but I've learned a lot that I'll be using in upcoing historical videos.
You can see these movies and more on the Lost Ottawa YouTube channel where I'll be adding more movies as fast as I can. Don't forget to subscribe!
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This morning I'm trying to repost the video that didn't appear in last night's post ... in which we walk the Orleans Pedestrian Bridge.
An experiment to see why things aren't working.
This is the first of five bridge videos we'll be posting in the evenings this week. You can see these movies and more on the Lost Ottawa YouTube channel as I post them. Don't forget to subscribe!
www.youtube.com/channel/UCMb_glIK66SHpokNwBKar6g
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Greetings! We've been on a short hiatus. Now we're back with a new video in which (drum roll ... ) we walk the Blair Road Pedestrian Bridge.
This is the first of five bridge videos we'll be posting in the evenings this week. Goofy stuff ... I've been using to learn new software. Now I have it out of my system!
You can see these movies and more on the Lost Ottawa YouTube channel. I'll be adding new movies over the next few weeks, and old videos as as fast as I can repackage them. Don't forget to subscribe!
www.youtube.com/channel/UCMb_glIK66SHpokNwBKar6g
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This is our last day of daily posts to Lost Ottawa so we wanted to let you know about another resource available to you — the Lost Ottawa Channel on YouTube.
That’s right! We’re putting our old as well as our new videos on YouTube. Here’s the link to the page:
www.youtube.com/channel/UCMb_glIK66SHpokNwBKar6g
Meanwhile, here’s a sample featuring CP 1201 on its way to Wakefield ... as reflected in the Gatineau River. We'll be adding more and more videos in the coming days, so be sure to subscribe! You be notified each time anew video goes up.
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This is the last day of our daily Lost Ottawa posts, but we've got something extra for you -- repository of all Lost Ottawa posts ever, starting in 2013.
The repository is on the website, where you can browse by year.
It works pretty well, but It's not perfect. You can't search the repository, for example. Ee'll be replacing it with a permanent and searchable repository as soon as when we can.
lostottawa.ca/lost-ottawa-facebook-posts-2013/
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One last photo Lost Ottawa photo from the Glebe.
Shared by Elizabeth Smith, who writes:
"My great grandfather, Alexander William Newlands, owned capital hardware on Fifth Avenue. He was from Scotland. I just found this ad in my granny’s belongings. They were very proud of their Scottish heritage."
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This is the last day of daily posts from Lost Ottawa and I wanted to start off with some pictures of a place that was very important to us and to you -- the Green Valley Restaurant on Prince of Wales.
Way back in 2013, a postcard of the Green Valley was the first Lost Ottawa post that really got people talking to each other. The picture racked up hundreds of likes and more than 16,000 views at a time when LO itself had only 250 members. Showed we were onto something!
As for the pics, first we have the "blue rinse" ladies, as so many people called them, posing with the owner and staff. Next we have the kitchen where all the food was made. Finally we have the three dining rooms: the Pine Room, the Walnut Room and the Guards Room.
The Green Valley Restaurant -- definitely in the top five of Ottawa's Most Lost!
(Photos shared by Helen Souter)
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Here's our last CFRA Top 40, featuring the top hits in Ottawa for this very day in 1966, when "Yellow Submarine" was at Number One.
The great thing about this Swing Set is the "all that's left" section on the front and back sides. It's about the CFRA contest that saw 36 lucky fans go to Toronto to see John Paul George and Ringo and Maple Leaf Gardens -- courtesy of Sherman's Music Land and Royal Burger!
I wonder if any of the survivors are on Lost Ottawa? Trip must have been a riot!
(Shared by Ken Clavette)
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"A 1846 write up of Bytown!" shared by Jennifer Fenwick Irwin.
It's a description of our fair city in the Canadian Gazetteer from back in the day when "Principal Taverns" was something to be stressed, as you see on page 3.
There were four of them, apparently. The Dalhousie Hotel and the Exchange for Upper Town drinkers, and the British Hotel and Ottawa House in Lower Town.
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Hey it's that time again. Time for the Ottawa Historical Society to start its annual speaker series.
Up first is a great talk about the Ottawa music scene of the 1960s by Jim Hurcomb who recently published a book on the topic.
The date is Wednesday, September 15 at 7 pm. It's gonna be good and it's going to be virtual, so check out the poster for how to attend via Zoom.Three weeks from tonight, we launch our Fall HSO Speaker Series with Jim Hurcomb reliving Ottawa's "Golden Age of Rock and Roll" of the 1950s and 1960s.
Visit our website for full details and the link to pre-register:
www.historicalsocietyottawa.ca/activities/events/eventdetail/43/16,17/rockin-on-the-rideau-ottawa...
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Sue Hodgkinson poses the question:
"Who remembers this album?"
The pic is very small, but the name of the song appears to be "Feel Like a Target."
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Lost Ottawa homed edition shared by Shon Besharah.
Writes Shon:
"I was trying to find info about an old place on Merivale Road and stumbled on this. It's all the members of the old home-builders association.
It's cool that my step dad Larry Armstrong and my day Moe Besharah are on it ... but look at all the companies and addresses. I grew up hearing so many of these names as a kid at dinner.
(06 Sep 1958, 16 - The Ottawa Citizen at Newspapers.com)
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Ed Macies shares a follow-up to a post we had about an Ottawa landmark near somerset.
Writes Ed:
"A few days ago there was a post about a "castle" on the tracks near Somerset Bridge. Here are two photos I took about 1970 or so. It was a coal shed originally used by Bruce Coal Ltd. Perhaps one of the railroad guys can tell us what it did and how it worked... (Colin Churcher?)."
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Among the best posts we've ever had on Lost Ottawa were pictures of the chick hatchery at the Science and Tech Museum on St. Laurent.
Thousands of (former) kids remember climbing up on the fried egg-shaped hatchery to watch the eggs crack and the chicks peep out.
The hatchery disappeared in the 1990s. Definitely among Ottawa Most Lost.
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We had a couple of great posts over the years about the knife sharpening guys, going all the way back to the guys who walked the street with the green carts and sharpening stones, ringing that lonesome bell.
Yesterday I heard that bell on Clemow Street and barely had time to grab my phone ...
You probably can't see it, but Carlo gave me a big wave that made me laugh. And then a lady flagged him down ... so there's business yet!
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We're in our last days of daily posts on Lost Ottawa and getting some last shares. Here's one from Kelly Lynn.
Writes Kelly:
"I'd like to share a novel i read a few years ago by Darren Jarome of Ottawa. Its called "Lower Town". It is a fictional novel of Bytown in the very early years. Some of our ancestors would have experienced these same things. The research that went and the detail, well i couldn't put it down. Darren said a second may come out."
Only a few bucks to buy online!
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A cool Shelby Ford Mustang on Preston Street in Ottawa. Hey, and another classic right behind it, going the other way.
Volkswagen vans, I've driven. Still time for the Mustang!
Our intrepid Ottawa detectives worked hard to figure out where on Preston Street this might be -- not easy given so many changes in the neighborhood. Lucio D'Orazio pegged the location 262-268 Preston, just south of Gladstone. Buildings are still there, but they don't look like this anymore.
Picture taken by Valdine Dewan in 1971 and shared by Laurel Dewan in 2013.
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You've seen it in the sky over Ottawa. A red Waco biplane. The Red Baron everbody calls it. Everybody I know anyway.
We decided to take a ride. Eighty-five bucks a person for 15 minutes, although our video is closer to five. Enough time to take you over downtown and back to Rockcliffe. Mrs. Lost and I thought it was well-worth it.
The flight is most fun and you get the best view when the plane banks into a turn, but not scary at all. With a smooth ride and the drone of the engine, it's actually kind of peaceful.
www.ottawaaviationadventures.com/
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Here's a classic old Chinese Restaurant that's about to go -- the Dragon on Montreal Road past the Aviation Parkway near Bathgate.
Shared by Eileen Whyte who writes:
"It will be torn down soon. My parents went there on a date in 1967. We always got meals from The Dragon on special occasions over the last 50 years."
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Paul Couvrette shares a post about his search for the homes of his ancestors. Amazing what history you can find around Ottawa.
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Barb Hughes shares a memory of Ottawa's Rockcliffe Airbase, which is still in the process of redevelopment.
Writes Barb:
"I use to have a friend (Paula or Pamela), a little blonde-headed girl, growing up in the 1970s and she lived in one of these houses on CFB Rockcliffe. I remember going down there and hanging out with her and her family. I also had a friend named Kenny Sam (his name I remember) who lived in the same housing complex as me on Carson's Road and his parents were in the military. He always entered those car derbies on base and I would go and watch him. There was always a lot to do as a kid on base back then, military or not. Sad the base was abandoned."
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Welcome to Ottawa! Here's two pictures we published way back in 2013, having to do with my own early memories of life on Queensline Drive in Graham Park, then in Nepean.
Barely removed from Victoria, BC, we arrived just in time for the Great Snow of 1971-71. Guess who got the job of shoveling?
Over the years we've had some fantastic tales of surviving the Great Snow. I would say it's one Ottawa's 50 most lost subjects. Many people would like it to stay lost!
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Actually, I don't fish, but I wanted to give you all a wee heads-up. As of this Friday, the daily posts of Lost Ottawa pictures will come to an end.
That’s right. The daily posts, every morning and every night, will be a thing of the past.
Don't worry, Lost Ottawa won’t be “lost!” We’ve got more books to write. Plus, we’ll keep posting, but on an occasional basis and mostly about new videos.
I want to thank all the people of the community who’ve contributed their pictures, likes, and comments over the years. Together we’ve built up an incredible -- I would even say unprecedented -- repository of information about living, working and growing up in Ottawa in the second half of the 2Oth Century. That knowledge won’t disappear and it won’t be wasted.
Why are we changing things? One reason is that after eight years and more than 16,000 posts I’ve run out of steam. A second reason is that no great new sources of images are emerging so we are beginning to repeat ourselves, which tells me we’ve completed the task of documenting our era.
The third reason is the most important. I’ve got at least five other projects on the go. At my age (and maybe as the lessons of the past few years have shown us), it’s time to get on with them.
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We're going back to our roots this week, posting pictures from our early years when Lost Ottawa was very small and you might not have seen them.
One fabulous source of pictures for us in the beginning was Laurel Dewan, who shared many street photography pictures taken by Norm McLeod. Here's one taken on Sparks Street in the early 1970s.
Wrote Laurel:
"Sparks Street Mall. The yo-yo busker guy amusing an audience of little kids. Don't think he was going to get much pay for his act but look at their faces ..."
(Lost Ottawa December 19, 2013)
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If you live in downtown Ottawa you might have heard the rumblings of fireworks over the past week or so. Here's how they had fun in September of 1901.
First, a big illuminated arch over the entrance to Parliament Hill because, hey, the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York were in town.
Next, Centre Block all lit up with, yes, light bulbs!
Electric lights were official turned on in Centre Block on the 17th of January 1884.
(LAC C009634 and C002180)
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Mark Taverna shares the Evening Puzzler and a boyhood reminiscence about and old Ottawa landmark.
Writes Mark:
"This is a Google Street View image of the southwestern side of the O-Train tracks below the bridge on Somerset West, a few blocks before it merges with Wellington.
When I was a small boy in about 1971, my mother and I moved to the Governor de Ville Apartments on Bayswater. One of the first things I remember seeing in my new neighborhood as we moved in was an ancient-looking stone tower that stood approximately where I have placed the red rectangle on the photograph.
I remember being fascinated by this tower every time we crossed the bridge. It looked like something from the medieval era, old, mysterious and crumbling, built with huge stone blocks and surrounded by bushes and trees. I used to imagine it was a haunted wizard's tower from a storybook. I think I could see the top of it from the Devonshire schoolyard.
Probably fortunately for me, by the time I started going out in the neighborhood unsupervised with my school friends about early 1974, the tower had been demolished. I likely would have tried to climb to the top and broken my neck.
Obviously it served some simple function for the rail line, but to me it was a place of mystery and imagination.
I would love to see a photograph of my old haunted Wizard's tower and learn more about it."
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We have another puzzler this morning, featuring these gentlemen somewhere in Ottawa. Looks like Parliament Hill judging by the tower in behind.
Shared by Jason Cohen, who asks:
"Can someone please tell me what the significance of this photo and signature is. Thank you in advance."
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Postcard from Lost Ottawa ... featuring Ottawa's "Central" Station and also the Morning Puzzler.
What's the problem? Well, if you look at the color postcard you'll see the station had a dome on it, which I always thought was lost in the 1950s. However, the second postcard is a photograph that shows a weird turret on top and no dome.
On the other hand, the second image appears to be a photo, and it appears to be a later picture on account of all the cars, so what gives? It's true that postcard makers were known to take liberties, but ... ⁉️
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It's so hot in Ottawa, you're probably inside chillin' to some cool music from the Sixties. Linda Seccaspina has ideas for your playlist!
Her post includes a great assemblage of photos, clippings and even set lists related to two Ottawa bands of the time. You can feel the fun.
Clippings of –The Naughty Boys –The Eastern Passage -60s Music
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CLIPPED FROMThe Ottawa CitizenOttawa, Ontario, Canada02 Dec 1966, Fri CLIPPED FROMThe Ottawa CitizenOttawa, Ontario, Canada02 Dec 1966, Fri Married to Bob Gauthier —Since November 18, 1972 I …5 CommentsComment on Facebook
A Vanier Triptych, featuring three views looking down over the Cummings Bridge that connects Rideau Street in Ottawa to Montreal Road in Eastview.
The date is 1957. Most noticeable to me is ... no Eastview Plaza. Also, I don't think I ever noticed there were low-rise apartment buildings on Mark Avenue. Nice?
(City of Ottawa Archives CA008070, 71, and 72)
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It's not the Ottawa Ex ... but it is a fair being assembled in the back of the Earl Armstrong Arena.
It's the Fun Fair (at least I think that is the name), which will be raising money for the Gloucester Food Cupboard at Earl Armstrong this weekend, August 20 through 22.
I did not know the Fair had been in Kanata earlier. Later in September the Fun Fair will be at the Ray Friel Recreation Complex in Orleans in support of the the school breakfast program.
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When the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York came to Ottawa in September of 1901, the city made a special electric streetcar for the future King George V and Queen Mary to ride around in. Here we have it, inside and out.
So nice to commute in an armchair. Idea to boost ridership on the LRT?
"According to the description, "the interior of the car consists of polished oak, a 3-ply Birds Eye Maple roof, plate mirrors in frames, solid bronze hat racks, window curtains, incandescent lamps, floor covering in royal blue velvet and easy chairs upholstered in olive green velvet."
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Just got a request for a picture of Bagel Bagel, an eatery down in the Market, I beleive.
Here's the only photo we ever had, which we posted way back in 2013. Love the hairdo's.
No idea about the original source.
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We've got the beginnings of a fabulous Ottawa steampunk novel here as this steam shovel crew digs deeper and deeper into the ground between Elgin Street and the old Post Office in 1938.
Sure they "said" they were digging a foundation for the War Memorial. But we know they were digging for something else. Treasure maybe. Tunnels down there for sure!
And how did they get the steam shovel out of the hole when they got to the bottom ... or is it still there!?
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Some future version of Lost Ottawa will want to post this.
Made me laugh when I came across it recently.
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Was out at an Ottawa landmark the other day -- the old Dominion Observatory, which used to be responsible for establishing Canada's official time.
So I decided to check on how the sundial out front was doing.
Could use some gardening, but otherwise not bad! Time stamp on the picture says 11.29.35. Daylight savings, don't forget.
(P.S. The Roman numerals are upside down, so that is 10 at the bottom and eleven to the left.)
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