Nepean Township – Page 2

Views: Ottawa’s Leslie Park (1969)

Leslie Park garden homes at Redwood Court. Image: CMHC 1969-289 Image 2. Taken May 9, 1969.

Leslie Park garden homes at Redwood Court. Image: CMHC 1969-289 Image 3. Taken May 9, 1969.

Shots taken by the CMHC on May 9, 1969 of the Redwood Court row housing development in Ottawa’s (then Nepean’s) Leslie Court. This was one of the Campeau Corporation’s many (many) developments in the national capital.

Lancaster’s Merivale Night Move (City View’s Lancaster Shopping Centre, 1954)

The Lancaster Shopping Centre, just after opening. Image: Archives of Ottawa, Item CA004606, June 13, 1954.

On April 28, 1954, residents of the rapidly developing part of Nepean Township known as City View were welcomed to the grand opening of the Lancaster Shopping Centre. Constructed by subdivider and homebuilder William Lancaster and designed by architect Norman Sherriff, the small plaza opened with Hyde’s IGA Foodliner, Tom Reith’s Hardware, the Elm Grove Pharmacy, and a post office.¹Ottawa Journal, April 28, 1954, p. 12.

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Notes
↥1	Ottawa Journal, April 28, 1954, p. 12.