Rideau and Mosgrove, 1978. Image: HBC Heritage. 
Rideau at Mosgrove, 1977. Image: HBC Heritage.
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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.
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.
The City of Ottawa’s Views of Elgin, 1991
In 1991, City of Ottawa planners travelled the streets of Centretown, cameras in hand, documenting the neighbourhood’s built heritage. Since I will be speaking for five minutes tonight at Heritage Ignite! about how Elgin street has inspired my love for Ottawa’s history, I figured that it would be nice to share some of those images. They were sourced from Accession 2009.0453.1 at the City of Ottawa Archives.
Bill Cadzow Views St. James Town
This shot of Toronto’s St. James Town, taken by the CMHC’s Bill Cadzow in July 1971, remains one of my favourites in what I’ve seen of the CMHC’s historic photo collection. I just wish they would digitize more of them after having done so many a few years back. A boy can dream.
Continue reading Bill Cadzow Views St. James TownElgin Goes From Party Palace to Golden Arches
When I wrote about the Party Palace on Elgin Street a few years back for Ottawa Start, I remember having a hard time locating an image of its wonderful sign. One was eventually located and added to the story, but every time I find another one, I’m instantly brought back to writing that story. Above and below are two of the three I’ve since located.
Continue reading Elgin Goes From Party Palace to Golden ArchesOne (Screen) Shot: O’Connor & Woodbine
The Gardiner in 1979
I don’t have much to say about this delightful picture, other than the recently-removed Inglis sign is something that I’ll always remember. It was removed in August 2014 to make room for more of the condominium developments in Liberty Village.
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August 2017
Dartmouth Shopping Centre, 195? & 2017
Dartmouth Shopping Centre, 195?. Image: City of Dartmouth Planning and Development photographs Halifax Municipal Archives 101-80C-1-3-18.
Dartmouth Shopping Centre today(ish). Image: Google Maps.
I think I’ll blog a little more on it later when I have more time, but this Christmas, I had the opportunity to spend time out east in Halifax. It was the first time I had been that far east, the first time I had ever seen the ocean, and the first time that Christmas travels didn’t mean heading up to Timmins. As Dartmouth (Cole Harbour, really) is her homeland, Kathleen and her family were more than happy to show me around. As always, if you take a look at my photos section, you can see some of what I was looking at.
Queen East at Woodbine
At the beginning of the year, I ran a then and now of Queen East and Woodbine from 1972 to the (near) present. While browsing the City of Toronto Archives’ database, I landed on this one of the same view from 1955/56.