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That Ottawa shot a few up... wow.
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And a few more from the archives. There's still a neighbourhood we call the Old West End, but it's really just a small portion of that neighbourhood. It was destroyed concurrently with the Central Slum. The Old West End was partially demolished to allow the harbour arterial to connect with Water Street. It was half demolished to widen Water Street West to four lanes. And the rest fell into ruin when the Central Slums inhabitants (this was their main commercial area) were pushed elsewhere.
The areas in blue are what's gone today: http://i.imgur.com/UrtP2WD.jpg And some pics of how it used to look (mostly... at this point the Central Slum was already gone, as you can see in the first pic - the new City Hall has already been put up on part of it): http://i.imgur.com/Y15XDIS.jpg http://i.imgur.com/uih9ZdH.jpg http://i.imgur.com/jhHsamN.jpg http://i.imgur.com/BfBlmea.jpg And the above angle today: http://i68.tinypic.com/2druf41.png http://i.imgur.com/cFSFDhR.jpg http://i.imgur.com/GGRCZR3.jpg http://i.imgur.com/QzB1YOG.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Um4U4tj.jpg ***** A rare picture of what George Street looked like before it was revitalized. It really was just a back lane for Water Street and Duckworth, a few bars still but mostly just the warehouse ends of businesses. http://i.imgur.com/lFau36T.jpg ***** And a couple of pictures from 1941: Winston Churchill was on the ship: http://i.imgur.com/NApd0sj.jpg U.S. Army barracks on the Southside Hills overlooking downtown: http://i.imgur.com/h1jz8Ek.jpg And Water Street East way back when... http://i.imgur.com/8twTwEd.jpg |
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My initial reaction was it has to be somewhere in conception bay, mostly due to the older buildings....And it has cars in the picture so it shouldn't be some remote community that does exist any more. Given the Sydney ferry terminal was the previous picture....It would make sense that the next picture was Placentia/Argentia taken from the ferry but I don't think it is. |
oh and those photos from Labrador in that guys flickr account are incredible. Daily life photos from the early 70's in Labrador.....can't be a lot of those laying around.
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What is the largest CMA that's not represented in that list? Kelowna? Barrie? Red Deer? Kamloops? Sudbury? In the US there are cities of millions that practically didn't exist in 1920: Las Vegas, Orlando, etc. Also somewhat interesting: every region has a fairly major (non-suburban) city that isn't on that list; not just cities in Alberta and BC, but cities like Fredericton, Granby, Sudbury, etc. |
Interesting that there is nothing nearer Toronto than Oshawa and Hamilton. Toronto never had a Hull, a New Westminster, a St. Boniface -- not really anything close to that.
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Going through some old ebooks from the archives trying to find out more information about other communities that are large today.
Instead got punched right in the heart. :haha: It's a report on life in Canada and Newfoundland in the early 1860s. Lovely descriptions of Canada, such as: http://i.imgur.com/g1s3Gkz.png And we get... http://i.imgur.com/HGG5WrE.png http://i.imgur.com/QaqZyJP.png http://i.imgur.com/wXskF0u.png :haha: Jesus. Oh well, at least we loved it ourselves then too. lol |
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Most of the city had merged together by 1914. Had this been a decade or two earlier you'd likely have seen suburbs like Yorkville, Parkdale, and North Toronto up there. Still, I'm surprised by the absence of places like Weston, Mimico, and Long Branch. Guess it was in the following couple decades that their growth really took off. |
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Fire at the Château Frontenac in 1926
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Stumbled upon this map of my neighbourhood from 1919
http://i.imgur.com/bhUYuinl.jpg The same angle in 2015, all high density except for the triangular shaped native reserve on the left edge http://i.imgur.com/grOENBJl.jpg |
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A few from FB.
U-Boat in the harbour. http://i65.tinypic.com/xpu3ck.jpg Old passports. http://i63.tinypic.com/28l6r6g.jpg The edge of the Central Slum. http://i63.tinypic.com/20uxqok.jpg I knew we were considered for Confederation in the 1860s, but were passionately against it... but I thought it was a non-issue. I didn't realize that, back then, there was actually a campaign here to prevent it. Some propaganda from the 1800s, as opposed to the 1940s: http://i67.tinypic.com/2mn2np2.jpg Fire on the southside, WWII. This pic was originally thought to be of when the Germans torpedoed St. John's, but those hit much farther to the left well out of view of this angle. http://i66.tinypic.com/ri51md.jpg The Confederate, the main paper that supported the Confederates and Confederation. You can see their term "British Union", which is how joining Canada was marketed here: http://i63.tinypic.com/2vmybsx.jpg And the Independent, the main daily for Nationalists. http://i65.tinypic.com/2h3c0ag.jpg House window during the referendums in 1948. http://i64.tinypic.com/25fnmnk.jpg "PEI Premier warns NLers to beware of Confederation". One of the things I only learned here on SSP is how opposed the Maritimes turned out to be. Downtown West End before 351 and Fortis. http://i64.tinypic.com/10mpisw.jpg 1900s, Water Street http://i66.tinypic.com/2zsw84x.jpg |
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I've had an on and off relationship with Ottawa for decades, since the 70s, and I spend a lot of time there now (and Gatineau -Aylmer). It's grown to become such a beautiful city.. I even remember old addresses. My much older sister married a student from Ottawa U and lived in a two room place with a shared bathroom at 340 Somerset E. Then she spent a short time at 911 Queen st., now long gone. Very pre-loft, it was cool. A walk-up, maybe even four floors, they were on the top. Ceilings were about 12 feet. There was a large, narrow bedroom with two long narrow window, the only windows to outside, to a fire escape, with a series of five or six old panelled doors that opened to the living room. The kitchen, about 8x8, And the bathroom both had small windows that faced onto a large skylight. As a twelve year old, it was the coolest place I had ever seen. It was expropriated and she moved to 84 Beech, just off Preston.Little Italy. |
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