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Jan 6, 2020 · This black-and-white reproduction of an 1845 watercolour by Thomas Burrowes, reproduced in the 1927 book by Ross (the one with the wrong information about the first settlers in Part 1) shows a scene looking east from the "West end of Wellington Street". 16 I'd venture to guess that the road along the right fence is the connection between Wellington Street and Pooley's Bridge.
Jan 1, 2020 · As of September 16, 2019, Wellington Street West goes from Bayview Station Road just west of the O-Train Trillium Line west to Island Park Drive where it turns into Richmond Road. Wellington St West was severed at Somerset during the 2010 reconstruction that I covered in a 15-part blog series , and most of the stub still carries the name Wellington Street West.
That is exactly correct. At one time, the river was the south boundary for the city. I am not 100% sure why it never changed, but I suspect it has to do with street numbers. For example, we have BOTH an 85 Wellington Street - which is just north of the river, and a 85 Wellington ROAD, which is the LCBO just south of the river.
Oct 24, 2020 · 128 Wellington St., 1932. It wasn't the first building at this intersection with such a footprint, though. The first three-storey iteration dates back to before 1838, and was called the Coffin Block .
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Barry Padolsky, an Ottawa architect specializing in heritage buildings, says more pedestrian space sounds great, but functionality needs to hold a seat at the table. "People need a reason to go there," he said "[Or] it's just going to make more of a dead zone." While added security remains top of mind for many after the truck protest, too much secu...
Gordon says you can't recreate the wide boulevards of Washington, D.C., in Ottawa because the cities aren't similar in their design and elevation. Architect Frederick Todd included this warning in the 1903 city planning report submitted to the Ottawa Improvement Commission, a body that Laurier created at the tail end of the 1890s. The preliminary r...
Ottawa does have that diagonal view from further down Wellington Street at the National War Memorial. The land for it was expropriated by the federal government after the Russell Hotel burned down in 1928, according to Paul Henry, the City of Ottawa archivist. While the city and the federal government have worked together to manage land since Ottaw...
Mar 27, 2022 · A month after the last truck was towed off Wellington Street, all the major players are imagining what the road could look like without vehicles — the newest wrinkle among decades of visions for the street in front of Parliament Hill. Proponents of reinventing the area say the discussion about what to do has been going on for years, and yes, it's actually been more than 100 years of ...
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Aug 17, 2021 · In anticipation of the increased traffic coming to Scott Street, Council had passed by-law 140-69 on July 21 97 to add no-parking and peak hour no-stopping regulations to Scott Street between Bayview and Island Park Drive, and to remove from the traffic and parking bylaw the various regulations that applied to the Wellington Street viaduct (i.e. one-way in p.m. peak and a prohibited turn, 20 ...
