Built in 1909, the Warrington Apartments is one of the city’s older apartments and one of the oldest at the southern end of Elgin street.
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Carleton County/Gloucester Township/Intermunicipal Affairs/Murray Jones/Nepean/Ottawa/Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton/Transcript
Second City, Second Metro: Extended Coverage for the Ottawa Hospital Council
In the same way that residents of the outside urban and township municipalities were anxious to either have freer access to Ottawa’s hospitals or have their own hospitals, the Ottawa Hospital Council was anxious to find a way to have those outside residents pay a few more bills.
Continue reading →Regional Council Meets for the First Time (1968)
Months before it was even officially “a thing”, the first meeting of the Council of the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton was held on July 3, 1968. The aim was to set the stage for the regional municipality official first day of January 1.1Ottawa Citizen, July 4, 1968, 17.
I promise that I’m not trying to get ahead of myself: testimony and research from Murray Jones’ Commission will continue to be transcribed.
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| 1. | ↥ | Ottawa Citizen, July 4, 1968, 17. |
Rideau Street at Mosgrove (1977 and 1978)
Rideau and Mosgrove, 1978. Image: HBC Heritage. 
Rideau at Mosgrove, 1977. Image: HBC Heritage.
Hudson’s Bay Wholesale Delivers (1970s)
Zeller’s on Sparks (1956)
Morgan’s on Sparks (1965)
The Hudson’s Bay Company acquired the Montreal-based Morgan’s in 1960. The Ottawa store, at 74 Sparks, would not even see the mid-1970s.
Bell's Corners/Carleton County/City of Ottawa/Federal District (National Capital) Commission/Greenbelt (Ottawa)/Intermunicipal Affairs/Murray Jones/Nepean/Ottawa/Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton/Transcript
Second City, Second Metro: Nepean Needs a Hospital
The rapidly-growing Nepean Township needed a hospital and much like Harold Denman, the Nepean Township Hospital Committee made sure its arguments for one were heard.
Continue reading →The Bay on Rideau from Above (1981)
The HBC Heritage account on Twitter is always a great source of images of HBC stores and HBC owned/acquired retailers. This aerial photograph was identified to have been taken in 1981. As someone who likes a finer-grained street grid, I still think Mosgrove should not have been closed off for the Rideau Centre and Bay renovation.
City of Ottawa/Greenbelt (Ottawa)/Intermunicipal Affairs/Murray Jones/Ottawa/Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton/Transcript
Second City, Second Metro: Public School Board in Search of “an enlarged administrative area.”
The Ottawa Public School Board’s submission to the Jones Commission made it clear that its boundary should be the outer edge of the greenbelt.
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Second City, Second Metro: Ottawa Separate School Board – “the principal of equal opportunity is being violated.”
The Roman Catholic Separate School Board of Ottawa had one thing in mind when its submissions were made to the Jones Commission: money. Although the Board was pleased with what it was able to accomplish in Catholic education with the funds it had been allotted, the 70% difference in per-pupil funding vis-a-vis the Public School Board did not sit right.
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Second City, Second Metro: Nepean Hydro “provides superior administration by retaining a local interest and identity.”
Nepean Hydro, having only been formally a separate utility since 1964, showed little interest in being swallowed whole by Ottawa Hydro as part of the reorganization of local government.
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