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I know that Sandy Hill was planned to get the axe but local opposition stopped it.
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Imagine what the Ottawa would look like if government would have invested in building up the city instead of destroying it.
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Ottawa in 1923



from the Bytowne Museum Facebook page
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Imagine what the Ottawa would look like if government would have invested in building up the city instead of destroying it.
In the contemporary mindset, that's what they were doing.
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Horses, streetcars and light rail: A look at Ottawa’s transit systems

Posted on Tuesday May 14th, 2013 by Eli Burghardt



Sparks Street in 1909. Photo: Library and Archives Canada

Now in its 165th year, the University of Ottawa has transformed from a small primary and secondary school to a major research institution. In the late 1800s, students attending the University, which was known as the College of Ottawa, had limited transportation to get around the city: they could walk, ride horse-drawn carriages or hop aboard horse-powered rail transportation.

The “animal railway,” operated by the Ottawa City Passenger Railway Company, was Ottawa’s first urban transit system, where a team of horses would pull cars along a railway set into the street. Transportation service began in the fall of 1870 with six horse cars running daily (except Sundays) every 15 to 20 minutes, with a 10-minute service at rush hour. It cost passengers six cents to ride. During the winter months, when the streets were covered in snow, the horses pulled passengers along in sleighs.

By 1892, the College of Ottawa had grown to 389 students and begun conferring degrees, with the first Bachelor of Arts granted to Thomas Foran in 1872. A new transportation system, which provided more access to the city, was available to staff and students: the electric streetcar. The network of cables and rails crisscrossing Ottawa streets was developed by Thomas Ahearn and Warren Soper, founders of the Ottawa Electric Railway Company. Determined to continue running cars throughout the winter months, Ahearn and Soper started the city’s first snow removal service. They also purchased snow sweepers, rail cars with rotating brooms in front to brush the snow away from the tracks.


Snow Sweeper of the Ottawa Electric Railway Company. Photo: Library and Archives Canada.

Streetcars ran in Ottawa for nearly 70 years, until 1959 when the system was converted over to buses along a transitway to better serve the needs of the growing city. The University of Ottawa was also growing, and student life changed as many lived off-campus and held jobs, requiring them to commute around the city. Between 1956 and 1970, the number of full-time and part-time students rose from 11,000 to 17,000.

Today, with the bus system nearly at capacity in the downtown core, Ottawa is ready for its next transformation, a return to trains and rails. With roughly 40,000 students and 7,000 employees, the University of Ottawa is a main hub for commuters. Renovation plans for the Campus station promise a modern structure that will enhance the look of the campus and a transportation system that is sustainable and accessible. Not only will the light rail be able to carry 10,700 passengers per hour in each direction (and more as the system grows), but it will also make travel faster and easier.


Lees Station in 2017-2018. Photo: City of Ottawa.

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http://www.gazette.uottawa.ca/en/201...ansit-systems/
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Old Posted Dec 25, 2014, 12:07 AM
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Ottawa, 1967, by Ralph E Foster.

Source:https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater
Awesome! Campeau really started something with Place de Ville.
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What is that big smokestack in Hull? Looks to be close to where Lac Leamy Casino is now.
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What is that big smokestack in Hull? Looks to be close to where Lac Leamy Casino is now.
Might have been the Portland Cement plant next to their quarry, now lac de la Carrière.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_du_Lac-Leamy
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Landsdowne Park 2010 to 2015

Given the rate of change on the property I think 2010 qualifies as 'then' for Landsdowne park.






ottawa landsdowne park 2010-2014 by southfacing, on Flickr
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Ugh. They ruined the parking lot!

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Wait - so Lees station (and presumably others) are going to be glass-roofed?

So no lessons were learned from the brutal, shadeless greenhouses that are the current misery of Bus Crapid Transit stations in the summer?

Awesome.
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Ugh. They ruined the parking lot!

I agree*. Where else in Ottawa do we have a large expanse of public asphalt that can be used for fairs, parade staging, etc.? Toronto has Exhibition Place; even little Carp had the Carp Fairgrounds – Ottawa now has nowhere in the central area.

The problem was not that we had a large surface parking lot surrounding large-space buildings; the problem was that the City has no idea at all how to book and manage a multi-use facility. Yes, the facilities needed some sprucing up (again, due to the City’s inept maintenance of its assets), but the need for facilities such as these was clearly present. As proof, a private group offered to build a new trade-show building out by the airport. No, the problem was not having an ‘Exhibition Place’ of our own, it was that the City of Ottawa was running it.

You could point out that the facility was losing money, but I’d ask you “What ‘asset’ does the City own which DOES make money – apart from Hydro Ottawa that can charge customers what it wants? How many of the City’s ‘Recreational Centres’ turn a profit, for instance?

The only good things about the Lansdowne ‘redevelopment’ are that a group other than the City is now managing the site and that some of the buildings have finally had some refurbishment.

* I realize that your comment was probably written in jest, but my comments are not; I think the City has lost some needed facilities and, again, has valued money over city services. But this is the town that the City has been trying to drive fun away from.
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Hull with Ottawa in background, ca. 1940:


Source: https://www.facebook.com/LostOttawa/...type=3&theater

Same view, mid 80s:



Source: https://www.facebook.com/LostOttawa/...type=3&theater
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Hull with Ottawa in background, ca. 1940:


Source: https://www.facebook.com/LostOttawa/...type=3&theater

Same view, mid 80s:



Source: https://www.facebook.com/LostOttawa/...type=3&theater
Hull is unrecognizable in the 40s. Even the 80s pic is fairly dramatic.
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When I was a child, Ottawa looked more like the 1940s picture than the 1980s picture. I witnessed most of the modern downtown buildings being constructed and I remember Hull's riverfront dominated by E.B. Eddy's pulp mill. Ottawa has changed big time in my lifetime, mostly for the better, although both Sparks Street and Rideau Street were both better in the old days.
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When I was a child, Ottawa looked more like the 1940s picture than the 1980s picture. I witnessed most of the modern downtown buildings being constructed and I remember Hull's riverfront dominated by E.B. Eddy's pulp mill. Ottawa has changed big time in my lifetime, mostly for the better, although both Sparks Street and Rideau Street were both better in the old days.
It seems next to nothing happened in Ottawa between the 1920s and the 1960s. A few buildings here and there, that's it. When Campeau got the approval for Place de Ville phase I, the city witnessed the dawn of a new era with dozens of towers popping up non-stop downtown for 2 decades straight.

I agree with your sentiment about Sparks and Rideau; every time I see old pictures of Sparks with streetcars or Rideau with the iconic Freiman and Ogilvy buildings in the hay days, I wish I could have been there.
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Ottawa postcard from ebay, I'm guessing mid 70s:

Source:http://www.ebay.com/itm/Canada-Ottaw...item20dea04bc4
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Ottawa postcard from ebay, I'm guessing mid 70s:

Source:http://www.ebay.com/itm/Canada-Ottaw...item20dea04bc4
Yup, 1972.
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Really cool to see all these 'old' pictures of Ottawa.

Also a big thanks to J.OT13 for posting a lot of these in the Canada thread section so others can see them too. (Which is where I first saw a lot of these as well)
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