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Originally Posted by Uhuniau
In almost all of Lowertown, and parts of Uppertown, the street names pre-date Ottawa being selected as capital.
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Yes, a lot of them went back to the Bytown era. But there were a lot of streets renamed. This is how we got Laurier and Gladstone Avenues, and Bank Street, was originally Esther Street named for Colonel By's wife. There was a Bank Street but it only went from Wellington to the 'Bank' of the Ottawa River.