A Historical Timeline
for the Township of Gloucester, Eastview and Rockcliffe Park
by Glenn Clark
Updated December 9, 2024 |
Moodie/Caldwell House once served as the Limebank Post Office |
2013 updates in Green
2014 updates in Orange
2015 updates in Pink
2016 updates in Blue
2017 updates in Purple
2018 updates in Red
2019 and later updates in Brown
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Gloucester Township Hall 1874-1962
at Billings Bridge |
Gloucester Reeves and Mayors
Gloucester Police and Fire Chiefs
Gloucester Township Clerks
Carleton County Wardens from Gloucester
Eastview/Vanier Reeves and Mayors
Eastview/Vanier Police and Fire Chiefs
Eastview Clerks and Treasurers
Rockcliffe Park Reeves and Mayors
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1783 - United Empire Loyalists start moving to the north shore of the St. Lawrence River following the American Revolution.
1783-1784 - Crawford Purchase is negotiated by Captain William Redford Crawford on behalf of the Crown with the Mississauga tribe. As part of the treaty, land is included up to one day travel time north of the St. Lawrence River and the Bay of Quinte, and was surveyed two to three townships north of the riverfront. This treaty is now regarded to include land from the Trent River to the east boundary of Leeds County. Chief Mynass also included land as far north as the Ottawa River, however, when surveying in Marlborough Township, Oswegatchie Onondaga tribesmen stopped the surveyors on their hunting territory. The Crown negotiated with Akwasasne (St. Regis) Mohawk and Oswegatchie Onondaga tribes for land on the St. Lawrence front. Both tribes eventually settled. The Oswegatchies moved to the south shore and were eventually dispersed by the American government. It is now regarded that the Crown had not settled with Algonquian tribes, whose traditional lands were in the Ottawa River valley. Gloucester Township is considered unceded territory [Indian Land Surrenders in Ontario 1763-1867 by Robert J. Surtees] View Report.
1788 - Lunenburg District created,
including the area that later became Gloucester Township.
1792 - Township of Gloucester
first surveyed and known as Township B.
1793 - (July 13) Gloucester Township named
after William Frederick (nicknamed Silly Billy), second Duke of Gloucester
and Edinburgh, nephew of King George III. Gloucester Township was
first known as Township B. Gloucester Township is part of Dundas County
in the Eastern District. [Carleton Saga, p.162]
1800 - Russell County established.
Gloucester Township included.
1812- Braddish
Billings is the first permanent settler.
1813 - Braddish Billings marries
Lamira Dow in Merrickville and returns to Gloucester with his bride.
1815 - Sabra Billings is the first
Caucasian child born in Gloucester.
1815 - Following a visit to family
in Merrickville, the Billings family is swept over Hog's Back Falls.
Philamon Wright rescues the family.
1816 - Gloucester Township becomes
part of the Ottawa District.
1820 - Township survey completed.
1823 - Braddish Billings constructs
a sawmill on a creek running through his property near today's Bank
Street. This creek has been known as Sawmill Creek ever since.
1825 - Braddish Billings appointed
as Clerk and Assessor for Gloucester Township. The first assessment
lists 12 families.
1826 - Construction of Rideau
Canal commences.
1827 - Thomas McKay builds his first home, a double frame structure with a stone barn behind at the corner of John Street and Stanley Avenue [Ottawa Journal, March 1, 1967 p.36].
1827 - James Johnston settles
at Hardscrabble, near today's Rideau-Carleton Raceway.
1829 - (October 21) Billings family
move into their new home known as Park Hill (now a City of Ottawa
museum).
1829- Dam at Hog's Back is washed
out. A previous washout took place in 1828. The dam was completed
in 1829.
1830 - Farmer's Bridge later known
as Billings Bridge is completed, linking Gloucester Township with
Nepean Township and Bytown.
1830 - Jean-Baptiste St. Louis
erects the first sawmill at Rideau Falls. This is the beginning of
the industrial complex at this location.
1831 - Thomas
McKay purchases Lot 1, 2, 3, and 4, Junction Gore. This is the
present site of New Edinburgh, most of Rockcliffe Park and parts of
Vanier.
1832- Municipal Reform Act establishes
roles for municipal officers but not responsible to electorate.
1832 - Rideau Canal completed.
1832 - (January 2) First town
meeting held at John Cunningham's Inn on the site of present day Ottawa
airport.
1833 - The east side of the Rideau
River near Rideau Falls is named New Edinburgh by Thomas McKay. He
encouraged other Scotsmen who had worked on the Rideau Canal to settle
there.
1833 - Village of Long Island
Locks first settled.
1834 - Assessment lists 156 householders.
1834 - First residents arrive
in area of Blackburn Hamlet.
1834 - Stagecoach service begins
between Bytown and Prescott via Billings Bridge, Bowesville and South
Gloucester. The road is known as the Bytown & Prescott Carriage
Road.
1834 - The approximate year during
which the first church opened in Gloucester, a Methodist church at
Long Island Village. Another Methodist Church opened at Leitrim in
1837.
1837 - The first Cummings Bridge
was built as a collective project of the citizens of Bytown. It connected
Rideau Street to Montreal Road via an island in the middle of the
Rideau River. Charles Cummings and his family moved to the island
in 1840 [Ottawa Citizen, Feb. 22, 1922 p.5] View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, January 17, 1931 p.2] View News Story. This became
the post office named Cummings Bridge in 1879, serving the community
of Janeville and later Eastview [Library and Archives Canada Post
Office and Post Master Index].
1837 - The first school in New
Edinburgh is erected and opens as a school in 1838. First known teacher
is James Fraser. A plaque has been erected in front of the building
at 62 Sussex Drive.
1838 - Gloucester Township becomes
part of Carleton County in the Bathurst District.
1838 - Rideau
Hall, first known as 'The Castle' was completed and owned by Thomas
McKay. Thomas McKay was the contractor who built a number of the locks
on the Rideau Canal.
1838 - Rockcliffe
Manor House, now known as the Apostolic Nunciature in Ottawa,
was built by Duncan Rynier MacNab, a rival of Thomas McKay. Mr. McNab
dies before it is completed. It is the name of this house that gave us the name Rockcliffe [Ottawa Journal, March 27, 1971 p.6]
1842 - (March 19) District of
Dalhousie proclaimed. Gloucester Township included.
1843 - Ferry Service operated between Rockcliffe to Gatineau Point. The first operator was James O'Hagan, also first mayor of Gatineau Point. The Seguin family operated the ferry from 1875 until at least 1971, first by Jean Seguin. The ferry and a boathouse was located below the Rockcliffe Lookout and was accessed by a winding road and a stone stairway from a former streetcar station. Bernard Seguin sold the boathouse in 1985 which continues to operate as a restaurant [Ottawa Journal, March
27, 1971 p.6, August 22, 1964 p.37].
1844 - The current route of Bank
Street (then known as Prescott Road) between Billings Bridge and South
Gloucester is established.
1844 - (August) The current route of Smyth Road established by the Dalhousie District Municipal Council by resolution number 15 [The Packet, March 17, 1849 p.4].
1846 - New Edinburgh Bridge replaced
at Green Island. Early bridges built in the 1830s frequently washed
out over Rideau Falls.
1847 - Billings Bridge washed
out. Further washouts took place in 1862, 1876 and 1913.
1849 - Baldwin Act passed establishing
municipal government.
1849 - Gloucester Orange Lodge
No. 222 is chartered. The first meeting takes place in January 1850.
It first meets at various homes in the southern part of Gloucester,
and the first lodge building is built in the 1860s on Bank Street
near Blossom Park.
1849 - (February 19) First complete survey of Long Island reported by Robert Bell. [Manotick in the Early British Age p.36]
1850 - (January 1) Gloucester
Township is incorporated and the first Gloucester Reeve and council
are elected. James Sieveright is the first reeve.
1850 - Delorme Post Office opens.
The name changed to Lourdes in 1875 and Cyrville in 1892.
1850 - Gloucester appoints first
constables who effectively act as by-law enforcement officers.
1851 - Common Schools Act proclaimed,
establishing the School Section system.
1852 - Daniel Eastman opens an
inn in what is now known as Carlsbad Springs.
1852 - It is necessary to rebuild one end of Billings Bridge [Ottawa Citizen, July 17, 1852 p.4].
1853 - The Rideau Canal ceases
to be a military canal and is turned over to Canada West for commercial
use. Commercial shipping continued until 1930. Passenger steamers
continue until 1935.
1854 - Nepean and Gloucester connected
by two bridges at Long Island. From the Nepean side via a bridge at
the north end of the island and the Gloucester side via a swing bridge
further south.
1854 - Bytown and Prescott Railway
completed through the township (renamed Ottawa and Prescott Railway
in 1855 and leased to CPR in 1881) Railway runs through Gloucester
from Manotick Station to New Edinburgh via Gloucester Station, Ellwood,
Billings Bridge, Overbrook and Janeville (Vanier). Thomas McKay was
instrumental in bringing the railway to Bytown, which also explains
the routing via New Edinburgh.
1854 - (January) Gloucester Agricultural
Society founded. This society annually organized the 19th century
version of the Gloucester Fair at Billings Bridge. [Ottawa Journal,
Oct. 4, 1893 p.4]
1855 - (October 9) Thomas McKay
dies.
1857 - Billings Bridge washed out [Ottawa Citizen, October 24, 1925 p.2].
1858 - (September 9) First subdivision (Plan 8) registered for St. Joseph (Orléans) by Luc Major on behalf of the Roman Catholic College of Bytown [Orléans 1950-1960 Saint Joseph Boulevard Remembers, p.14, Ontario Land Records]
1859 - Dickinson's Grist Mill
opens in Manotick. This and the opening of the railway sets the stage
for the gradual abandonment of the village at Long Island Locks. Manotick
is the Ojibwa word meaning "long island".
1860 - Green Shoal Light is built. Beacon Hill was named after this lighthouse located in the Ottawa River near the east end of Upper Duck Island [Ottawa Citizen, April 3, 1860].
1860 - (October) Saint-Joseph d'Orléans Roman Catholic Parish founded. [Orléans 1950-1960 Saint Joseph Boulevard Remembers, p.14]
1862 - Billings Bridge to be rebuilt following a spring washout [Ottawa Citizen, June 21, 1862 p.2].
1862 - First wooden bridge built over west channel between Long Island and Manotick [A History of Long Island Manotick 1827-1997 p.7].
1862 - (April 18) Hog's Back dam is breached [Ottawa Citizen, October 25, 1882 p.4] View News Story.
1863 - Separate School Act (Scott Act) enacted, which extended separate school rights to rural areas. The Scott Act is named after Richard William Scott.
1864 - Thomas Coltrin Keefer subdivides
the McKay estate to establish the beginnings of the community of Rockcliffe
Park.
1864 - (April 8) Braddish Billings
dies.
1865 - (April 2) Rideau Hall is leased by
the government for the Governor General's residence.
1865 - The first cricket pitch
was established for the Ottawa
Cricket Club at Rideau Hall. The club was originally established
in 1840 as the Carleton Cricket Club, re-established as the Bytown
Cricket Club in 1849 and renamed the Ottawa Cricket Club in 1858.
Prior to Rideau Hall, early matches were held at what is now known
as Cartier Square.
1865 - Ottawa and Prescott Railway
goes bankrupt. No trains run into Ottawa for 2 years.
1865 - Ottawa and Gloucester Road
Company is established to build and improve the road between Uppertown
Ottawa and South Gloucester. This road is now known as Bank Street.
1865 - An early bridge known as the Long Island Bridge that connected Gloucester and Nepean at Long Island Locks was washed out and never rebuilt. [Ottawa Citizen, September 2, 1925 p.26] View News Story.
1866 - The second Cummings Bridge
is built. Its official name is the New Rideau Bridge, but also known
as the Sandy Hill Bridge during this era.[Ottawa Citizen, February 2, 1866 p.3] View News Story.
1866 - Monck wing added to Rideau Hall. The Viscount Monck is the first
Governor General to move into Rideau Hall.
1867 - First Swing Bridge built over Rideau River between Long Island and Gloucester [A History of Long Island Manotick 1827-1997 p.8] [Ottawa Citizen, October 25, 1867 p.3] View News Story.
1867 - New Edinburgh is incorporated
as a village.
1868 - 24
Sussex Drive is built by Joseph Merrill Currier, MP. Originally
named 'Gorffwysta', Welsh for 'Place of Peace'.
1868 - Ferry service established
between New Edinburgh and Gatineau Point. It continued until about
1914. The ferry operated from a wharf below today's French Embassy to near the Lady Aberdeen Bridge. The steamer Mansfield operated from 1889 until 1914. [Pioneer Families of New Edinburgh by Robert Serré, 2007]
1868 - McArthur Avenue is built
through the McArthur farm as a shortcut for residents travelling from
the Cyrville area, and to reduce or evade road tolls on Montreal Road.
1868 - (July 28) Rideau Hall purchased by Government of Canada as Vice Regal residence for $82,000.
1869 - Terrific snowstorms stop
trains travelling between Prescott and Ottawa.
1870 - (July 21) Ottawa City Passenger
Railway Company introduces horse drawn tramway along Sussex Drive
as far as the edge of Rockcliffe Park.
1870 - (August 17th) Gloucester
affected by Carleton County fire especially near Green's Creek. [Ottawa Citizen, July 5, 1924 p.3] View News Story.
1870 - First Spa and resort is
built at Eastman's Springs (now Carlsbad Springs) by Dominion Springs
Company.
1871 - Branch line added to Ottawa
and Prescott Railway from Chaudiere Junction (Ellwood) to LeBreton
Flats via Dow's Lake (today's O-Train line).
1871 - Approximate year that the
Carleton County Police Force was established, covering Gloucester
and the other townships of the county.
1871 - (September 25) Toll house to be completed on the Russell Road for the Ottawa and Russell Road Company, three to five miles from the Rideau Bridge (Cummings Bridge). The toll house was built near Smyth Road. [Ottawa Citizen, August 5, 1871 p.3] View News Story.
1872 - New Edinburgh Bridge to be replaced
[Ottawa Citizen, February 6, 1872 p.1 View News Story, p.2 View News Story]. Old bridge demolished. New bridge to be completed by April 15, 1872 [Ottawa Citizen, February 16, 1872 p.3] View Clipping
1872 - Notre Dame Cemetery opens
as a result of an Ottawa city by-law forbidding further internments
inside the city limits.
1872 - (November 29) Founding meeting of Beechwood
Cemetery, which was established on the McPhail farm and parts of the McKay/Keefer
estate [Ottawa Citizen, November 30, 1872 p.1]. View News Story
1873 - The new Ottawa Street (St. Patrick Street) Bridge opened. Gloucester Township council was petitioned for this bridge on May 6, 1872, A $200 grant from council was approved on September 9, 1872 upon completion of the bridge and payment was approved on May 5, 1873. [Ottawa Citizen, March 5, 1872 p.1, View News Story September 2, 1873 p.2, View News Story January 3, 1874 p.1]. View News Story
1873 - (October 25) Beechwood Cemetery consecrated [Ottawa Citizen, October 27, 1873 p.1]. View News Story
1873 - (December 8) Ottawa and Gloucester Road Company to extend macadamized road south on Metcalfe Road (Bank Street) 5 miles from Billings Bridge and Front Road (Riverside Drive) 3 1/2 miles from Billings Bridge to Hacket's School (south of Walkley Road. [Ottawa Citizen, December 9, 1873 p.4]. View News Story [Ottawa Citizen, December 23, 1873 p.2] View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, April 23, 1874 p.1] View News Story.
1874 - Gloucester Agricultural
Fair commences on land adjacent to Town Hall at Billings Bridge. The
fair continued until 1904. Later, this was known as Coronation Park.
1874 - Gateville subdivision established
just south of Billings Bridge.
1874 - River Road to be surveyed to Manotick by the Ottawa and Gloucester Road Company. [Ottawa Citizen, June 20, 1874 p.4] View News Story.
1874 - The first wooden Hurdman's Bridge was built by subscription in 1874 and likely opened late in the year. The contractor was George Hurdman. A significant portion of the subscriptions were not honoured requiring an appeal both to subscribers and to the Township of Gloucester to cover the shortfall. Consideration was also given to turning over the bridge to the Russell Road Company requiring tolls to be paid for 20 years. This latter option was not popular with those who had paid their subscriptions.
Gloucester Township council was first petitioned for this bridge on November 4, 1872 and a $250 grant was approved on December 2, 1872 to be paid out upon completion of the bridge. [Ottawa Citizen; August 21, 1874 p.4]. View Clipping [Ottawa Citizen; September 1, 1874 p.4]. View Clipping [Ottawa Citizen; November 12, 1874 p.4]. View Clipping [Ottawa Citizen; January 29, 1875 p.4]. View Clipping [Ottawa Citizen; December 16, 1875 p.2]. View Clipping Bridge proposals [Ottawa Citizen, December 20, 1872 p.4] View Clipping [Ottawa Citizen, August 30, 1873 p.4] View Clipping [Ottawa Citizen, February 13, 1874 p.4] View Clipping [Ottawa Citizen, February 17, 1874 p.4] View Clipping
1875 - (June 7) Gloucester Council holds its first meeting at the new Township Hall,
Billings Bridge (photo above right). Insurance on the new building commenced on April 25, 1875. The old township hall, also at Billings Bridge was owned by R. A. Bradley. Authority to turn over the key, make final payment to Mr. Bradley, move all furniture to the new hall was authorized at the May 10, 1875 council meeting [Gloucester Township Proceedings and By-laws for 1875]. The new township hall was built on land offered by the Gloucester Agricultural Society in May 1874. The old township hall was put up for auction on May 4, 1874 at 12 Noon with the winning bid submitted by Mr. Bradley. [Gloucester Towhsip Proceedings and By-laws for 1874]
1875 - (July 12) Ottawa and Gloucester Road Company agree to immediately start construction to extend the Gloucester Road (Bank Street) from Sieveright's farm (Sieveright Road) to the Osgoode line. [Ottawa Citizen,
July 13, 1875 p. 3] View News Story.
1875 - New St. Lawrence & Ottawa railroad bridge at New Edinburgh is under construction. [Ottawa Citizen,
February 16, 1875 p. 4] View News Story.
1876 - Robert Cummings elected
Warden of Carleton County [Belden Atlas of Carleton County,
1879 p. li].
1876 - Orange Lodge No. 222 relocates
to Billings Bridge.
1876 - (April) Billings Bridge washed out and over Rideau Falls damaging McLaren's Dam [Ottawa Citizen, April 19, 1876 p.4]. View Clipping
1876 - (May) New Billings Bridge completed. [Ottawa Citizen, May 12, 1876 p.2. View News Story
1878 - New Billings Bridge built by the Ottawa and Gloucester Road Company and Carleton County [Ottawa Journal, December 4, 1912 p.1] [Ottawa Citizen, March 9, 1878 p.4] View News Story. .
1878 - Canada Temperance Act (also known as the Scott Act) enacted allowing communities to hold plebicites on liquor prohibition [Ottawa Journal, January 4, 1939 p.22]. The Scott Act is named after Richard William Scott.
1880 - Public stagecoach service
between Billings Bridge and Ottawa commences and is operated by William
Whiten and W.J. Parry. The service was discontinued in 1893. No further
public transit was available to the village of Billings Bridge until
the post World War II era.
1882 - Canada Atlantic Railway
opens running through Gloucester from Hurdman's Bridge to Carlsbad
Springs via Hawthorne (Today's Ottawa-Montreal VIA rail line).
1882 - First record of a brickyard
operating near Billings Bridge. This was later known as the Merkley
Brickyard.
1882 - (October 21) Hog's Back dam is breached [Ottawa Citizen, October 25, 1882 p.4] View News Clipping.
1883 - The
Ottawa Canoe Club is established and located at the foot of the
Ottawa Locks. The first clubhouse is built in 1885. It relocates to
Governor's Bay in New Edinburgh in 1894, because of navigational difficulties
created by sawdust originating from the Chaudiere sawmills. In 1914,
it merges with New Edinburgh Canoe Club and becomes the Ottawa New
Edinburgh Canoe Club [Ottawa Citizen, May 14, 1931 p.19].
1885 - The Grey Nuns of the Cross
purchase 500 acres for Youville Farm in Orléans. This land
was resold for housing development in 1970.
1885 - (April 20) MacLaren's bridge damaged, St. Patrick's and Manotick bridges mostly carried away by spring floods [Ottawa Citizen, June 9, 1995 p.3]. View News Clipping. [Ottawa Citizen, April 21, 1885 p.4 View News Story. April 22, 1885 p.3 View News Story]
1886 - (November 24) Swing Bridge constructed
over the Hog's Back Locks and a fixed bridge over the Hog's Back dam [Ottawa Journal, November 24, 1886 p.4]. View News Clipping. [Ottawa Journal, October 16, 1886 p.1] View News Story. [Ottawa Journal, October 29, 1886 p.4] View News Story. [Ottawa Journal, Janaury 28, 1887 p.3] View News Story.
1886 - (Spring) New iron MacLaren's and New Edinburgh bridges completed [Ottawa Journal, March 19, 1886 p.3]. View News Clipping.
1886 - (June 2) St. Patrick's Street bridge opens [Ottawa Journal, June 3, 1886 p.4] View News Clipping.
1887 - (January 1) New Edinburgh, including
Green Island, annexed by the City of Ottawa. Annexation was approved by Ottawa City Council on August 2, 1886 [Ottawa Citizen, August 3, 1886 p.3] View News Clipping.
1887 - Besserer's Grove resort near Orléans opens and is accessed by Ottawa River steamers [Ottawa Journal, July 5, 1887 p.4 first newspaper report].
1887 - Skiing first demonstrated
in Canada. Lord Frederick Hamilton uses Russian skis at Rideau Hall.
1887 - St. Patrick's Orphanage and Asylum acquires property at Mooney's
Bay to build a children's summer home.
1887 - (April 14) St. Patrick Street Bridge washed out. Cummings Bridge severely damaged by ice flows. New Edinburgh and flooded [Ottawa Journal, April 14, 1887 p.1]. Read Clipping [Ottawa Journal, April 15, 1887 p.4]. Read Clipping
1887 - (September 28) A fire rages from Pembroke to Navan and Thurso, affecting in Gloucester at least Concession 3, 4 and 5 Ottawa Front, Green's Creek, Mer Bleue, Eastman's Spring, Montreal Road east of Notre Dame Cemetery and the St. Lawrence and Ottawa Railway [Ottawa Journal, September 28, 1887 p.1].
1888 - (June 6) Cyclone devastates
large portions of Gloucester particularly near Billings Bridge, Hawthorne
and Ramsayville.
1889 - (January 1) 148 acres south of New
Edinburgh (Lindenlea) and Porter's Island annexed by Ottawa. [Ottawa Citizen, January 27, 1888 p.4] View News Story.
1889 - New iron bridge built at Manotick [Ottawa Journal, December 8, 1887 p.1, June 15, 1889 p.1].
1889 - New iron St. Patrick Street bridge built [Ottawa Journal, August 10, 1889 p.8].
1889 - (August 3) Rockcliffe Park
horse-drawn tramway officially opened with public service commencing on August 5th, but not connected to Ottawa tramway at John Street, New Edinburgh until
1891. The new street railway commenced at the city limits about 400 feet east of John Street and ran a distance of one mile ending near the access road to the Gatineau Point ferry [Ottawa Journal, August 5, 1889 p.4] Read Clipping.
1890 - (August 4) Gloucester authorizes
the rent for a Police Station in Janeville.
1890 - (August 4) New Orange Lodge dedicated at Billings Bridge [Ottawa Citizen, July 14, 1890 p.4]. View News Clipping.
1891 - (August 4) Electric Streetcar service extended into New Edinburgh via the St. Patrick Street Bridge [Ottawa Citizen, August 5, 1891 p.4]. View News Clipping. Chrichton Street rail line under construction [Ottawa Citizen, September 11, 1891 p.4]. View News Clipping. Through streetcars between the Exhibition Grounds and New Edinburgh commenced service on October 7, 1891 [Ottawa Journal, October 8, 1891 p.3]. View News Clipping.
1891 - (March 27) Hog's Back dam washout [Ottawa Journal, April 10, 1891 p.1] View News Clipping.
1891 - (early December) Residential hydro service extended to New Edinburgh [Ottawa Citizen, December 1, 1891 p.4].
1892 - Rideau Park subdivision
established on part of the Billings Estate to open up the land for
market gardeners.
1893 - (June 22) Original Rockcliffe pavilion built [Ottawa Journal, June 22, 1893 p.7]. View News Clipping. [Ottawa Citizen, May 23, 1893 p.5] View News Clipping.
1893 - (June 22) Electric street
cars start running to Rockcliffe. It was initially a transfer service with the New Edinburgh line. It replaces the previous disconnected horse car line [Ottawa Citizen, June 16, 1893 p.8]. Read News Clipping. [Ottawa Citizen, June 23, 1893 p.8]. View News Clipping. [Ottawa Journal, June 22, 1893 p.7] View News Clipping.
1893 - (August 4) Electric Street
Car service commences operation on Sussex Drive. Intitial service ended at Green Island until the New Edinburgh bridge expansion was completed. [Ottawa Journal, July 27, 1893 p.1] View News Clipping [Ottawa Journal, August 4, 1893 p.7]. View News Clipping.
1893 - (July 28) New Edinburgh Bridge between Green Island and New Edinburgh beginning to be expanded on the north side for streetcar service [Ottawa Journal, July 27, 1893 p.1 View News Clipping, July 28, 1893 p.7 View News Clipping, June 29, 1893 p.5 View News Clipping]
1893 - (August 13) Ottawa City
Passenger Railway Company and Ottawa Electric Street Railway Company
merged operations (the starting date for the 30 year franchise) and became the Ottawa Electric Railway Company (OER)
on August 1, 1894 as a result of the passing of an Act of the Ontario Legislature and an Act of the Canadian Parliament.
1893 - (August 30) Sussex Streetcar begins running across New Edinburgh bridge connecting it with the Rockcliffe line. This is a seasonal service [Ottawa Jounral, August 25, 1893 p.8]. View News Clipping. [Ottawa Journal, August 30, 1893 p.7] View News Clipping.
1893 - (March 29) The third Cummings
Bridge built with iron trusses opens to traffic, with the official
opening on April 5th. It was officially named Bingham's Bridge on
April 17th in an Ottawa by-law to honour Samuel Bingham, the alderman
who headed the works committee, and later an Ottawa mayor. A dispute
arose when the city put up name plates on the bridge and Carleton
County officials retaliated by placing their own name plate for 'Cummings
Bridge'. The name plates were put up and removed a number of times
until it was agreed that no name plate would be placed on the bridge.
The original naming by-law remained in place.
1893 - (October 28) Ottawa City
Passenger Railway New Edinburgh horse stables have converted to a paint and repair shop for the electric railway. [Ottawa Journal, October 28, 1893 p.7]. View News Clipping.
1894 - Iron and stone bridge built between St. Patrick Street and Porter's Island [Ottawa Citizen, October 17, 1894 p.8, January 25, 1894 p.8].
1894 - (May 3) Double track through electric
streetcar service opens for the 1894 season to Rockcliffe Park via Sussex Drive from Chaudiere. The Ottawa Electric Railway
adds electric lighting to the grove at Rockcliffe Park lookout and
a merry-go-round is imported from Tonawanda, NY which is also lit with incandescent lights and music provided by an organ [Ottawa Journal, May 2, 1894 p.1] View News Clipping. Rockcliffe Park double track opens with transfers in New Edinburgh starting on April 19th [Ottawa Journal, April 19, 1894 p.7] View News Clipping
1895 - (Late April) Hurdman's Bridge replaced with new wooden structure with iron girders. Construction began on April 1st and was to be completed in late April [Ottawa Journal, February 7, 1895 p.1, April 2, 1895 p.7, April 17, 1895 p.6].
1896 - (April 12) Major Rideau River flood affects Billings Bridge, Janeville and New Edinburgh [Ottawa Citizen, April 13, 1896 p.7].
1897 - (July 6) Jubilee House Hotel opens at Besserer's Grove resort near Orléans [Ottawa Journal, July 7, 1897 p.8].
1897 - (July 22) Rockcliffe Park purchased
by City of Ottawa to serve as a recreational area.[Ontario Land Records]. An agreement to purchase the park from Thomas Keefer had began in 1893 by the Ottawa Parks Board but there was an ongoing dispute with Ottawa City Councill over the advisability to purchase the land, which did not get resolved for 4 years, when it became apparent how successful the park already was because of the streetcar service. [Ottawa Citizen, November 28, 1894 p.8] View News Clipping. [Ottawa Journal, May 16, 1895 p.5] View News Clipping. [Ottawa Journal, April 8,1897 p.7] View News Clipping.
1897 - (September 6) St. Joseph's Orphanage opens on Rideau Terrace, Rockcliffe formerly located on Cathcart Street [Ottawa Citizen, September 7, 1898 p.5].
1897 - (October 8) Five mile fire affects area around Base Line Road (today's Ramsayville Road) and neighbouring Osgoode township. Fires also seriously affect the vacinities of Casselman, South Indian (Limoges) and Bearbrook [Ottawa Journal, October 9, 1897 p.7].
1898 - (July 29) Ottawa and New York Railway
opens running through Gloucester, from Hurdman's Bridge to Edwards
via Hawthorne, Ramsayville and Piperville. Initial service was between Ottawa and Cornwall. Bridge construction over the St. Lawrence River was still in progress [Ottawa Citizen, July 29, 1898 p.1].
1898 - (August 29) The
Dominion of Canada Rifle Association Rifle Range commences operation
at the site that later became Rockcliffe Airport [Ottawa Journal, August 27, 1898 p.7] The Rockcliffe Rifle Range is officially opened by Major General Hutton [Ottawa Citizen, August 29, 1898 p.1] Read News Clipping. The previous range known as the Rideau Rifle Range
had previously been in Sandy Hill near the present site of the Russian
Embassy and Strathcona Park and had closed at the end of the 1897 season [Ottawa Journal, January 22, 1898 p.2].
1898 - (September 5) CPR short line opens running
through Gloucester from Hurdman's Bridge to Blackburn [Ottawa Journal, September 6, 1898 p.4]. CPR transcontinental
service to Montreal used this rail line until 1981.
1898 - (September 6) Ottawa and New York Railway bridge collapses at Cornwall on the south channel of the St. Lawrence River causing heavy loss of life [Ottawa Citizen, September 6, 1898 p.1].
1899 - Minto Wing added to Rideau Hall.
1899 - (July 23) Sunday streetcar service commences operation. Rockcliffe Line was heavily patronized. [Ottawa Citizen, July 24, 1899 p.8]. View News Clipping. A municipal plebiscite was won by 61% majority [Ottawa Citizen, January 20, 1899 p.3] View News Clipping.
1900 - Rockcliffe Streetcar barn built at the corner of Sir Georges-Etienne Cartier Parkway and Princess Avenue [Ottawa Citizen, April 9, 1900 p.1] Read News Clipping.
1900 - (August 18) Rockcliffe
streetcar extended to Dominion of Canada Rifle Association Rifle Range [Ottawa Citizen, August 17, 1900 p.1] Read News Clipping.
1900 (October 1) With the completion of the international bridge at Cornwall, the Ottawa and New York Railway began offering rail service between Ottawa and New York City via Tupper Lake twice daily [Ottawa Citizen, October 1, 1900 p.7].
1901 - Minto Bridge opens connecting
New Edinburgh with Lowertown. Named to honour the fourth Earl of Minto,
Governor General of Canada from 1898 until 1904.[Ottawa Journal, May 29, 1901 p.6] View News Clipping.
1901 (May 31) - The Earl of Minto,
Governor General of Canada donates the Minto
Cup initially for the senior's mens lacrosse championship.
1901 (August 26) - Ottawa Powder Company Dynamite Factory at Green's Creek suffers a major explosion killing manager, John Hudson. [Ottawa Journal, August 26, 1901 p.9] View News Story [Ottawa Journal, August 27, 1901 p.9] View News Story.
1901 - (December 6) Bert Harper
drowns in the Ottawa River below Rockcliffe in a failed attempt to
rescue Bessie Blair. Both had been ice skating on the river and fell
through the ice. On November 18, 1905, a Sir Galahad statue was unveiled
in memory of this sad event. It is now located in front of Parliament
Hill.
1901 - The practice of maintaining
township roads by statute labour was abolished. Thereafter, residents
no longer had the option of maintaining roads themselves for a specified
number of days per year in lieu of paying taxes for road maintenance.
1902 - Eastman's Springs renamed
Carlsbad Springs after famous spa in Czechoslovakia. First bowling
alley in Ottawa area located at Spa/Hotel.
1902 - (July 1) A monument was
erected to the memory of Wesley Hull, who was killed on June 7, 1900
in South Africa during the Boer War. The monument was located next
to the Orange Hall at Billings Bridge but was removed as a result
of road improvements around 1960. It was rededicated on June 8, 1997
at St. George's Hawthorne Cemetery on Russell Road.
1902 - (July 30) A span of Hurdman's Bridge collapses [Ottawa Journal, July 31, 1902 p.6]. View News Story.
1903 - Minto
Skating Club founded by the Earl
and Countess of Minto initially making use of an outdoor rink
at Rideau Hall with membership from the previous Rideau Skating Club
founded in 1885. The Earl and Countess also donated the Minto Cup
for the Canadian Men's Figure Skating Championship and the Minto Challenge
Cup for pairs. [Ottawa Citizen, November 3, 1948 p.1 & p.20]
The club made use of various Ottawa rinks before building a new facility
on Lancaster Road in 1986 and 1987. The club's most famous member
was Barbara Ann Scott who won an Olympic Gold Medal in 1948.
1904 - (April 28) New Edinburgh Canoe Club organized. [Ottawa Citizen, April 30, 1904 p.8] View News Story.
1904 - (June 18) The last timber
raft is sent down the Ottawa River to Quebec City. The first raft
was sent down the river in 1806.
1904 - (June 20) The City of Ottawa leases the 12 acre Rockcliffe Park to the Ottawa Improvement Commission for 15 years [Ottawa Land Records].
1904 - (Spring) New Hog's Back swing bridge to open before navigation season. [Ottawa Citizen, April 19, 1904 p.9] View News Story.
1904 - Daughters of Wisdom build
a prestigious residential school and convent in Janeville (Eastview).
1904 - Company of Mary builds Novitiate building at Cyrville [Ottawa Citizen, July 12, 1904 p.5]. View News Clipping.
1904 - Watermain extended to Rifle Range and Beechwood Cemetery via Rockcliffe Park [Ottawa Journal, August 10, 1904 p.1]. View News Clipping.
1905 - As part of a widespread concrete sidewalk building project, sidewalks are installed on Stanley Avenue, Crichton Street and Dufferin Road in New Edinburgh [Ottawa Citizen, February 18, 1905 p.9].
1905 - (December 30) Snow family sells farm
adjacent to Rockcliffe Rifle Range after near misses [Property Records].
1905 - Council limits the number
of taverns in the township to 8.
1906 - (April 18) Adolph Guilbault's Rideau Hotel is destroyed by fire. It was the largest building built in approximately 1888 at Hurdman's Bridge and was located near the CPR crossing. It was vacant and under renovation pending obtaining a new liquor license [Ottawa Citizen, April 18, 1906 p.3]. View News Story.
1906 - (Fall) Reinforced concrete Hurdman's
Bridge opens. This bridge would remain in use until 1955 [Ottawa Citizen, June 14, 1906 p.1, Sepember 22, 1906 p.12, December 13, 1906 p.4].
1906 - St. Thomas Aquinas Separate School opens at Billings Bridge. [Billings Bridge My Village, My Life by Gérard & Bernard Pelot, 1999, p.41, 42]
1907 - Rockcliffe Streetcar barn expanded [Ottawa's Streetcars by Bill McKeown p.126].
1907 - (March 26) Telephone service
being extended on Metcalfe Road (Bank Street) between Billings Bridge
and Leitrim [Ottawa Citizen, April 2, 1907, p.9].
1907 - (March 29) Worst Rideau
River flood in years inundates Clarkstown, Janeville, Hurdman's Bridge
and Billings Bridge.
1907 - (July 25) New Edinburgh fire destroys the W.C. Edwards Co. Ltd. mills on Sussex Drive, Ottawa Fire Station Number 6 and surrounding buildings. The mill was re-built. The fire station was rebuilt in 1910. [Ottawa Journal, Ottawa Citizen, July 25, 1907 p.1].
1907 - (October 12) Upton Farm is purchased by the Ottawa Hunt Club and officially opened by Earl Grey [Ottawa Journal, October 4, 1907 p.11]. Kennels were previously located opposite the Telegraph office at Billings Bridge and hunts took place at the Upton and surrounding farms [Ottawa Journal, November 5, 1906 p.2].
1908 - (December 11) Janeville, Clarkstown and
Clandeboye incorporated as the village of Eastview. Also included with the Floraville, Bellewood (Bellwood) and Frederickburgh (Fredville) subdivisions [Ottawa Citizen, December 12, 1908 p.2 View News Story , January 28, 1908 p.1 View News Story. ].
1908 - (January 31) Rockcliffe Park incorporated
as a Police Village [Ottawa Journal, January 31, 1908 p.9]. View News Clipping.
1908 - Warren J. Soper, co-founder of the Ottawa Electric Railway Company, builds a new house in Rockcliffe Park named Lornado [Ottawa Journal, March 21, 1908 p.16]. Previously, this location had a summer home, also known as Lornado and also owned by Warren J. Soper [Ottawa Journal, August 22, 1895 p.7].
1908 - (June 23) Swing bridge collapses over the Cornwall canal interrupting service on the Ottawa and New York Railway. There were no injuries. The collapse was caused by a canal washout [Ottawa Citizen, June 23, 1908 p.1]. Service was restored via a temporary bridge on August 15, 1908 [Ottawa Citizen, August 14, 1908 p.4]. A new swing bridge was to be put into service on May 1, 1909 [The Gazette, March 26, 1909 p.10].
1908 - (July 6) Hamilton Powder
Company receives a permit from Gloucester council to build a storehouse
or magazine for dynamite at the Robillard Quarries (Rockville) on
Montreal Road. Powder had previously been stored relatively unprotected
[Ottawa Citizen, July 7, 1908 p.2]. Following a massive explosion
at the General Explosive Company in Hull on May 8, 1910 [Ottawa
Citizen, May 9, 1910 p.1] in which eleven were killed, there
was considerable pressure to close the Gloucester magazine [Ottawa
Citizen, June 1, 1910 p.1] but a prior court decision gave the
company a right to operate [Ottawa Citizen, June 2, 1910
p.12].
1909 - (December 5) Canadian Northern Railway
opens running through Gloucester from Hurdman's Bridge to Orléans
via Cyrville. Initial service had a local train to Lachute via Hawkesbury departing at 8:30 a.m. daily except Sunday and daily sleeper service to Quebec City departing at 8:30 p.m. [Ottawa Citizen, December 4, 1909 p.6].
1909 - (October 29) Ottawa
Hunt Club opened by Lord Grey, Governor General of Canada. The property had been acquired from the Upton family in 1907 [Ottawa Journal, October 29, 1909 p.1,6]
1909 - The first Eastview Town
Hall opens on Palace Road.
1909 - Eastview Police Force Department established.
1909 - St. Jean Baptiste Society
established at St. Charles Parish, Eastview.
1909 - First constable appointed
for Cyrville.
1909 - (February 2) Novitiate of the Sisters of Wisdom blessed on Montreal Road [Ottawa Citizen, February 3, 1909 p.5].
1909 - (November 10) Eastview Volunteer Fire Brigade formed [Ottawa Citizen, November 10, 1909 p.1] View News Story.
1909 - (November 22 to 24) Ottawa bound CPR passenger train from Toronto and Peterborough takes over 26 hours to arrive because of winter storm and hundreds of downed telegraph poles. Work train precedes passenger train to clear track. Diner car exchanged from Montreal bound train to keep passengers fed [Ottawa Citizen, November 24, 1909 p.1].
1910 - Ashbury
College relocates to Rockcliffe Park (1911
class photo). It was originally founded in 1891 on Wellington
Street.
1910 - The Ottawa
Ski Club was formed. The club's first activities emphasized ski
jumping and the first primitive ski jump was built at 'Suicide Hill'
in Rockcliffe Park [Ottawa Journal, February 15, 1910 p.5]. The Canadian Jumping Championships take place
here in 1914. The club acquired Camp Fortune in 1920.
1910 - Besserer's Grove renamed Hiawatha Park and the Jubilee House Hotel updated and renamed Hiawatha Hotel. The resort is to be opened in the spring of 1910. A new railway station named Hiawatha Station is built on the nearby Canadian Northern Railway line. The hotel appears to have remained in operation until 1924 and the resort put up for sale in 1926 and again in 1937. The Hiawatha Railway Station also closed around 1924 and the Orléans Station relocated to just east of the Cumberland boundary. Picnicing at the site appears to have quickly declined in the late 1920s and ended entirely around 1937. The 1910 plan included lots for cottages [Ottawa Citizen, January 15, 1910 p.11, August 10, 1926 p.7, May 14, 1937 p.6, July 5, 1937 p.5 (last newspaper reference regarding public use)].
1910 - (April 6) Hiawatha Park
subdivision approved. A previous plan had been registered on August
13, 1901 and an even earlier one for the Besserer Estate on March
11, 1897.
1910 - (May 15) There was a wash out at the Hog's Back dam [Ottawa Citizen, May 16, 1910 p.9] View News Clipping.
1910 - Gloucester experiences
Real Estate boom in which several farms were subdivided for suburban
development. The boom continued until 1912.
1910 - Water service extended
into Rockcliffe Park. [Ottawa Citizen, June 7, 1910 p.12]
1910 - (July 13) New Manotick bridge opened to traffic.[Ottawa Journal, July 13, 1910 p.1] View News Story.
1910 - (July 27) Rockcliffe Parkway opens between Rideau Hall and the Rockcliffe Lookout. Two different routes were built. [Ottawa Citizen, July 28, 1910 p.1]
1911 - Gloucester votes by a slim
majority but fails to achieve the 60% requirement in order to invoke the Local Option to prohibit the retail sale of liquor in every tavern, inn,
or any place of public entertainment [Ottawa Journal, January 4, 1911 p.1]. Another attempt failed in 1913 and does not reach a vote [Ottawa Journal, December 2, 1913 p.13].
1911 - Council grants a franchise
to the Willowdale Telephone Company to operate a rural telephone system
in the township.
1911 - A telephone was first installed
in the Township Hall.
1911 - 'Casa Loma' built by Mr. & Mrs. H.S. Southam in Rockcliffe [Ottawa Citizen, February 7, 1944 p.13].
1911 - Ottawa Wine Vault Co. responds quickly to typhoid epidemic caused by contaminated city water supply. "Tally-Ho" pure spring water is delivered from an Ottawa Hunt Club spring. "Tally-Ho" provided water and soft drinks through the 1910s and 1920s [Ottawa Journal, February 8, 1911 p.7].
1911 - Blossom Park subdivision
approved. Construction did not begin until 1953.
1911 - Sir Robert Borden pledges
to provide rural mail delivery. Over the following years, rural route
delivery is introduced resulting in the closure of many rural Gloucester
post offices.
1911 - Notre Dame de Lourdes Grotto, Eastview originated [Ottawa Journal, June 1, 1961 p.44].
1911 - (July 19) The footbridge at the west end of Donald Street opens to provide streetcar access to the new Overbrook Annex subdivision [Ottawa Citizen, July 19, 1911, p17]. View News Story.
1911 - (July 31) Paardeburgh Park
subdivision registered at the corner of Walkley Road and Albion Road.
Most of this subdivision was never developed and became a transportation
corridor following World War II. The most easterly portion became
part of the Ellwood subdivision.
1911 - (August 9) Overbrook subdivision
plan registered and it would first appear on a map the following year.
The first streets are named after members of the Royal family including
the recently crowned King George V and his wife Queen Mary.
1911 - (September 18) Bannermount
subdivision registered. This subdivision was developed along Tremblay
Road after World War II when it became known as Eastway Gardens. The
streets were named by letter only.
1911 - (November 17) Manor Park
subdivision registered. Most of the subdivision was returned to Gloucester
Township because of tax arrears. Sewer and water services were extended
in 1949 allowing fast development in the area.
1912 - Dominion Bridge Company sets up plant in Eastview [Ottawa Citizen, February 20, 1968 p.8].
1912 - (March 12) Brookfield subdivision
registered. This market garden community located where Brookfield
Road once intersected with the CPR tracks, was expropriated by the
federal government between 1957 and 1964. The streets were closed
in 1965 and completely disappeared when the Airport Parkway was built
in the 1970s.
1912 - (November 27) Rideau Lawn Tennis Club established
by former members of the Ottawa Tennis and Lawn Bowling Club.
1912 - First street lights installed
at Billings Bridge to as far south as Heron Road.
1913 - (January 1) Eastview incorporated as
a town [Ottawa Journal, January 6, 1913 p.2]. Eastview creates its own Police Department, which was absorbed
by the Ottawa Police Service in 1984.
1913 - Construction begins on
Ottawa and Morrisburgh Electric Railway running through Gloucester
from Billings Bridge to South Gloucester following Metcalfe Road (Bank
Street). This railway was never completed.
1913 - (January 25) Municipal Isolation Hospital
opens on Porter's Island to treat smallpox patients, replacing former
buildings on the site. This was named Hopewell Hospital in honor of
the mayor at the time [Ottawa Journal, January 22, 1913 p.1].
1913- Canadian Northern Railways
purchase Upton and Langstaff farms for the purpose of creating a gravel
pit. A railway spur is extended to the site just east of Bowesville.
1913- Mappin Block added to Rideau Hall.
1913 - (Late January) New Railway bridge opens replacing 'White Bridge' near today's Carleton University. [Ottawa
Journal, January 13, 1913 p.2, Ottawa Journal, January 27, 1913 p.2] View News Story.
1913 - (January) Bishopric Wall Board Factory opens near Billings Bridge. It appears to have been located at the intersection of today's VIA Rail and Trillium Lines and with road access via Brookfield Road. The factory was already demolished in a 1938 air photo.[Ottawa Journal, January 27, 1913 p.2] View News Story.
1913 - (March 21) During spring
flooding, the centre span of Billings Bridge collapses. [Ottawa
Citizen, March 22, 1913 p.1]
1913 - (June 15) Two new Rural Routes commence operation from Billings Bridge. The first to Johnston's Corners via Bowesville and River Road. This became Rural Route #2 Billings Bridge. The second ran to Ramsayville via Hawthorne [Ottawa
Citizen, May 19, 1913 p.1].
1913 - (October 3) Amalgamation of Ottawa Canoe Club and the New Edinburgh Canoe Club adopted. The new club will be named the Ottawa New Edinburgh Aquatic Club [Ottawa
Citizen, October 4, 1913 p.8] View News Story.
1913 - (November 5) Eastview post office name changed to Eastview Center [Ottawa
Citizen, November 6, 1913 p.12].
1913 - (November 24) Preston Streetcar line opens and is connected to Rockcliffe on that date [Ottawa
Citizen, November 21, 1913 p.13]. View News Clipping
1914 - 'Stornoway' built in Rockcliffe
Park by Alan Keefer for Ottawa grocer Asconio J. Major.
1914 - (January 5) Canadian Northern Railway
opens Ottawa-Napanee line running through Gloucester from Hurdman's
Bridge to Rideau River at Wass via Billings Bridge. It is now the
VIA rail line between Ottawa and Toronto [Ottawa Journal, December 18,1913 p.2].
1914 - (January 25) L'Association
canadienne-française de l'Ontario relocated to Eastview after being
founded in Ottawa in 1910 in order to promote Franco-Ontario rights.
1914 - (March 29 at 11 a.m.) New temporary Billings Bridge completed and opened to traffic. The old bridge closed the previous day when tressle work from underneath the bridge was swept down river [Ottawa Journal, April 6, 1914 p.10, Ottawa Citizen, March 31, 1914 p.12 View News Story ].
1914 - (May 1) Eastview Council moves to a new town hall in a former separate school. The police and fire station also located there [Ottawa Journal, March 23, 1914 p.7] View News Story.
1914 - (May 15) Carleton Tennis Club opens including a new club house on the west side of Victoria Street (now Montgomery)[Ottawa Citizen, May 26, 1914 p.6].
1914 - (May 19) Chemical engine to arrive for Eastview fire brigade [Ottawa Journal, May 21, 1914 p.11].
1914 - (June 29) Canadian Northern Railway first provides through Ottawa - Toronto passenger service. Previous passenger service ran from Hurdman's Bridge to Chaffey's Locks only [Ottawa Citizen, June 4, 1914 p.1].
1914 - (July 1) Gloucester Gardens was subdivided under Plan 379. It was located on the east side of Bank Street, south of Rideau Road (south half of Lot 26, and north half of Lot 27, Concession 5, Rideau Front). The plan was registered on May 13, 1915. Lots were lost to tax arrears in the 1930s and purchased by Gloucester Township. On June 22, 1959, Gloucester Council sought cancellation of the subdivision, which was granted. The property was purchased by D. Cameron Merkley in trust for the Ottawa Brick & Terra Cotta Limited on July 27, 1959. [Ottawa Citizen, July 17, 1958 p.2] View Nws Story.
1915 - Rockcliffe
Preparatory School opens. It was renamed Elmwood School in 1923
as a school for young women.
1915 - The Novitiate of Grey Nuns
of the Cross (Grey Nuns Convent) opens near Hurdman's Bridge.The convent costing $150,000 was under construction in 1913 [Ottawa Citizen, May 10, 1913 p.27]
1915 - The second Eastview Town
Hall was located at the corner of Montreal Road and Cyr Street with
a Fire Hall attached. It was destroyed by fire in 1972.
1915 - (January 23) A new 115 foot tall ski jump opens at Rockcliffe [Ottawa Journal, January 19, 1915 p.5]
1915 - (May 10) Ski jump at Rockcliffe blown over [Ottawa Journal, May 10, 1915 p.4]
1915 - (September 2) Present day
Billings Bridge opens at 3:00 p.m. [Gloucester Council Minutes,
September 13, 1915, Ottawa Journal, September 3, 1915 p.14]
1915 - First constable appointed
for St. Joseph's village (Orléans).
1916 - Overbrook Public School (Gloucester School Section 25) opens. It closes in 2001. School Section 25 was previously in Janeville.
1916 - (March 10) Sister of Wisdom Convent destroyed by fire in Cyrville. [Ottawa Journal, March 10, 1941 p.8] View News Story. [Ottawa Journal, March 10, 1916 p.2] View News Story.
1916 - (May) The footbridge between Strathcona Park and the Rideau Lawn Tennis Club is swept away by high water. [Ottawa Citizen, May 29, 1916 p.6] View News Story.
1916 - Regular streetcar service beyond McKay's Lake to the Rockcliffe Rifle Range is discontinued. Occasional jigger service is occasionally provided until around 1924 [Ottawa Journal, December 4, 1916 p.3] View News Story.
1916 - (September 18) Prohibition takes affect in Province of Ontario. Sale of liquor is prohibited except by druggists [Ottawa Journal, September 18, 1916 p.2].
1917 - (June 23) New Rockcliffe pavilion openst, which still exists [Ottawa Citizen, June 20, 1917 p.3]. View News Clipping..
1917 - National Research Council
first acquires land on Montreal Road.
1917 - By-law enacted to set minimum
standards for fencing, and to end the practice of allowing livestock
to roam freely throughout the township.
1917 - New school built at Blackburn Corners. [Ottawa Citizen, July 13, 954 p.3]
1917 - (May 17) Reeve Caleb Hardy
dies in office. [Gloucester Council Minutes, June 4, 1917,
p.45]
1917 - (December 24) By federal Order-in-Council, new purchases of liquor for importation into Canada was prohibited immediately, with importation of previous purchases to end on January 31, 1918. The transportation of liquor into dry jurisdictions including the Province of Ontario was prohibited starting on April 1, 1918 [Ottawa Journal, December 24, 1917 p.3].
1918 - The Royal Air Force conducts
experimental mail flights between Ottawa and Toronto, using a field
adjacent to the Rifle Range at Rockcliffe.
1918 - First steel Mud Creek Bridge over Green's Creek on Innes Road is built. The previous bridge was wooden [Ottawa Journal, March 25, 1918 p.13].
1918 - Retail Merchants' Association of Eastview founded. [Ottawa Journal, June 29, 1918 p.9]
1918 - Eastview Hotel temporarily converted into a hospital to handle influenza patients [Ottawa Journal, February 24, 1967 p.6]
1919 - (April 1) Daylight savings time first introduced in Ottawa [Ottawa Citizen, April 1, 1919 p.1].
1919 - (June 8) Rideau Lawn Tennis Club clubhouse destroyed by fire [Ottawa Journal, June 9, 1919 p.14].
1919 - (July 1) Ottawa Electric Railway operator strike begins. Strikebreakers brought in on July 8th [Ottawa Citizen, July 8, 1919 p.1].
1919 - (July 19) A Curtis JN4 biplane
is the first known plane to land at what is now the MacDonald-Cartier
Airport, called Hopewell Field in the early days. Lieutenant George Mercer was the pilot and Mr. E.J. Draper was passenger [Ottawa Journal, July 21, 1919 p.4].
1919 - Cosy Theatre opens on Montreal
Road at Ethel Street in Eastview. It closed in 1922. This was the
first movie theatre to open on the original territory of Gloucester
Township.
1919 - (May 17) Eastview ratepayers vote in favour to extend Ottawa water service. [Ottawa Journal, May 16, 1919 p.1] View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, May 19, 1919 p.1] View News Story.
1919 - (July 26) Ottawa Hunt an Motor Club officially opens as an amalgamation of the Ottawa Hunt Club and Ottawa An Motor Club [Ottawa Journal, July 23, 1919 p.2]. View News Clipping.
1919 - (September) Three and half miles of concrete sidewalk installed in Overbrook by W.O. Wood [Ottawa Journal, September 6, 1919 p.1].
1919 - (October) Glen Ogilvie
Women's Institute organized.
1919 - (October 20) Ontario residents vote to remain 'dry' on four questions and retain prohibition under the Ontario Temperance Act [Ottawa Journal, October 21, 1919 p.1].
1919 - (December) Ottawa Suburban Roads Commission appointed. [Ottawa Journal, December 22, 1919 p.2]
1920 - Ottawa Air Station opens
at Rockcliffe. Airfield used for military aerial photography for topographic
mapping, air transportation, and aeronautical experimentation.
1920 - Hog's Back Falls officially named Prince of Wales Falls. Prince of Wales Drive was named at the same time for the future King Edward VIII [Ottawa Journal, January 15, 1920 p.5].
1920 - The Dominion Police is
merged with the Royal Northwest Mounted Police to form the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police, and the national headquarters relocated to Ottawa.
In 1921, the RCMP began to make partial use of the former Rifle Range
facility at the north end of St. Laurent Blvd. They fully took over
this location in 1925.
1920 - William Birch is the last
tollgate keeper at Billings Bridge.
1920 - Provincial Bank of Canada is the first bank to open in Orléans [Orléans 1950-1960 Saint Joseph Boulevard Remembers, p.33].
1920 - Bowesville Road improved including new macadamizing between Hog's Back and Manotick Road intersection [Ottawa Journal, March 19, 1921 p.20]
1920 - (January) New Eastview council plans to build sewers. [Ottawa Citizen, January 8, 1920 p.3] View News Story.
1920 - (January 10) Three ski jumps of varying size being built at Rockcliffe [Ottawa Journal, January 10, 1920 p.23].
1920 - (February) Ottawa Suburban Roads Commission expropriates toll roads including Montreal Road, Russell Road, Metcalfe Road, Bowesville Road, Merivale Road, and Richmond Road [Ottawa Journal, January 29, 1920 p.20 and February 9, 1920 p.5
1920 - (April) Metcalfe Road
designated a Provincial County Highway [Ottawa Journal, April 14, 1920 p.1].
1920 - (September 1) Montreal
Road east of Eastview (and St. Joseph Blvd.) becomes a Provincial
Highway and in 1925 it is numbered Highway 17.
1921 - (July 13) Current St. Patrick Street
bridge opens [Ottawa Journal, July 13, 1921 p.2].
1921 - First fire truck purchased
for Eastview.
1921 - Metcalfe Road improved including widening to 66 feet, macadamizing, and construction of new bridges and culverts [Ottawa Journal, March 19, 1921 p.20].
1921 - (May) Hog's Back bridge re-planked to make it safe for motor vehicle traffic [Ottawa Citizen, May 17, 1921 p.3].
1921 - (April 18) Ontario votes in favour of prohibiting the importation of liquor. Gloucester Township majority vote opposes with the north half of the township opposing and south half mostly in favour of the extra prohibition measures [Ottawa Journal, April 18, 1921 p.1 and 2].
1921 - (August 15) The Dominion of Canada
Rifle Association Rifle Range opens new Connaught Rifle Range at Shirley's Bay, Nepean, with the Rockcliffe facility closing in 1923 [Ottawa Journal, August 6, 1921 p.24]. The Rockcliffe site later becomes the RCMP barracks "N" Division and
the home of the RCMP Musical Ride. Streetcar service to the former
rifle range was discontinued on August 21, 1924 [Ottawa's Streetcars by Bill McKeown p.137]. The Connaught range had been expropriated in 1912 and laid out by 1914 but the Great War had delayed the completion of the site.
1922 - (August 15) Overbrook (covering areas south of McArthur Avenue) and St. Joseph d'Orléans (Orléans) become Police Villages as a result of a by-law passed by Carleton County Council [Ottawa Journal, August 16, 1922 p.3 View News Story, Ottawa Citizen, June 15, 1922 p.8 View News Story].
1922 - (January 21) Passenger train derails as it approaches Ellwood Station on a run from Prescott to Ottawa. Engineer Howard Edward White dies and 12 passengers are hospitalized [Ottawa Citizen January 23, 1922 p.1 View News Story p.14 View News Story].
1922 - (February 1, Noon) Current Cummings
Bridge opens [Ottawa Journal February 1, 1922 p.4]. View News Story.
1922 - (July 1) An 18 hole golf course officially opened at
Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club [Ottawa Journal, June 24, 1922 p.22].
1922 - (September 2) Private telephone exchange established for all federal offices in Ottawa allowing dial service [Ottawa Citizen, September 1, 1922, p.2].
1922 - (September 9) The first meeting to found the Rockcliffe Lawn Tennis Club took place. The club was incorporated on September 8, 1923 and the current location at 465 Lansdowne Road North was leased from Charles H. Keefer on October 28, 1923. The land title was transferred to the club on July 25, 1956. Club History
1923 - (August 4) The
Ottawa New Edinburgh Canoe Club opens a new boathouse at Rockcliffe,
which still exists today. Construction had commenced in 1914 but was
delayed because of wartime. It replaced its predecessor at Governor's
Bay, which was destroyed by fire on December 3, 1922 [Ottawa Journal, December 4, 1922 p.2] View News Story [Ottawa Citizen,
May 14, 1931 p.19] [Ottawa Citizen, August 4, 1923 p.12 View News Story p.21 View News Story ].
1923 - Canada Theatre opens on
Montreal Road at Bradley Street in Eastview. It closed in 1926.
1923 - Eastview grants franchise
for bus service [Ottawa Citizen, June 28, 1923 pg. 12].
1923 - Rockcliffe Lookout built [Ottawa Citizen, May 8, 1923 p.4]. View News Clipping. [Ottawa Citizen, July 27, 1923 p.5] View News Clipping.
1923 - (February 15) Overbrook Community Hall on Russell Road (River Road) opens [Ottawa Citizen, February 16, 1923 p.12].
1923 - (March 7) By-law enacted
requiring all Eastview municipal employees to be bilingual henceforth.
1923 - (August 3) Contract awarded
to George Farmer to apply bituminous penetration pavement to Metcalfe
Road. The pavement extended for a distance of 5 miles south of Heron
Road.
1923 - (September 29) Final competition at Rockcliffe Rifle Range [Ottawa Citizen, October 1, 1923 p.5]. View News Clipping.
1924 - Eastview Town Council turns
down proposal from Ottawa Electric Railway (OER) to extend streetcar
service. Eastview contracts its own bus service (Eastview Bus Lines),
which continues in operation until the service was taken over by the
Ottawa Transportation Commission in December 1950. The OER sets up
a competing bus service on June 25, 1924 [Ottawa Journal, June 25, 1924 p.1], which runs until April 3, 1929.
1924 - Electrical power introduced
into Gloucester Township by Ontario Hydro.
1924 - Royal Canadian Air Force
(RCAF) enacted, with Ottawa Air Station at Rockcliffe being one of
its bases.
1924 - Cloverdale loop replaces wye to prepare for one man operations on the Rockcliffe streetcar line [Ottawa Citizen, February 17, 1926 p.5]. View News Clipping.
1924 - (May 5) Gloucester Township Council approves the installation of street lights at intersections in Overbrook [Ottawa Citizen, May 6, 1924 p.5].
1924 - (May 17) The Riverdale Tennis Club opens in Overbrook just north and opposite (west side) of the intersection of North River Road (then Russell Road) and King George Street. The official opening took place on May 24, 1924. The club operated until 1935 [Ottawa Citizen, May 17, 1924 p.13]. In 1936, the site is taken over by the Tel-Aviv Tennis Club.
1924 - (July 26) J.C.S. Wolff was arrested for conversion of funds for personal use. Mr. Wolff had been the Eastview Clerk-Treasurer and had been dismissed by Eastview Town Council on June 20, 1924. He was found guilty on July 31, 1924 [Ottawa Citizen, July 28, 1924 p.5, June 21, 1924 p.5, Ottawa Journal, July 31, 1924 p.1].
1924 - (October 23) The majority of Eastview and
Gloucester ratepayers vote against the Ontario Temperance Act, however, the majority of Ontario votes in favour. The Ontario Temperance Act remains in force [Ottawa Journal, October 24, 1924 p.1 and 14].
1924 - (October 23) The first red Ottawa Electric Railway street car runs on the Laurier - Rideau - Somerset - Holland - Civic Hospital route. The new cars featured close side and front boarding. [Ottawa Journal, October 24, 1924 p.11 ].
1925 - (April 8) Gloucester
Horticultural Society established. Meets at Hawthorne School.
Relocates to former Ramsayville School in 1975. [Ottawa Citizen, March 21, 2000 p.F3] View News Story.
1925 - (June 3) Four tennis courts open at the Ottawa New Edinburgh Canoe Club with two more courts to follow shortly. [Ottawa Citizen, June 3, 1925 p.10] View News Story.
1925 - New Elmwood School built in Rockcliffe Park. [Ottawa Citizen, June, 12, 1924 p.4] View News Story.
1925 - (October 1) Lindenlea Ottawa Electric Railway street car extension opens with 5 minute peak period service and 10 minute service at other times [Ottawa Citizen, September 30, 1925 p.2].
1926 - (February 22) Rockcliffe Park incorporated
as a village by a vote by Carleton County Council. Nominations for the first village election were held on March 6th with the first Reeve, Major David Livingstone McKeand, acclaimed and the first council election was held on March 13th. The first council winners were Montague G. Powell, Andrew D. Watson, Samuel Short, William H. Connor. [Ottawa Citizen, December 30, 1924 p.9] View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, February 4, 1926 p.3] View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, March 8, 1926 p.5] View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, March 8, 1926 p.1] View Picture of Major D.L. McKeand. [Ottawa Citizen, March 15, 1926 p.4] View News Story.
1926 - (April) Major Rideau River flood affects Ottawa South, Billings Bridge and Hurdman's Bridge [Ottawa Citizen, April 23, 1926 p.1].
1926 - (May 13) Two buildings destroyed by fire at the Billings Estate including 22 carriages and Gloucester Township records [Ottawa Journal, May 13, 1926 p.1].
1926 - (October 8) McLaurin Farm, Metcalfe Road (Bank Street) at Ellwood (south of Walkley Road) was destroyed by fire. [Ottawa Journal, October 9, 1926 p.3] View News Story.
1926 - (October 22) Commandeurs de
l'ordre de Jacques Cartier established at St. Charles Parish in Eastview
as a male society, to ensure the public interest of French speaking
Catholics in Canada. It was dissolved on Feb. 27, 1965.
1926 - Bus service to Hurdman's
Bridge operated by Mrs. M. Gorman commences operation.
1926 - 2 1/2 miles of Metcalfe Road (Bank Street) to be paved south of Leitrim by July 1st [Ottawa Citizen, May 22, 1926 p.1].
1927 - (May 7) Carleton Tennis Club on Victoria Street (Montgomery) closes but will be replaced by the Victoria Tennis Club for 1927. Official opening date was May 7 [Ottawa Citizen, April 9, 1927 p.11, Ottawa Journal, April 30, 1927 p.31].
1927 - (June 1) First Ontario Government Liquor Store opens in Ottawa. Prohibition ends. The Ontario Temperance Act is replaced with the Ontario Liquor Control Act in order to end bootlegging [Ottawa Journal, June 2, 1927 p.2].
1927 - (July 2) Charles Lindbergh
flies into Hunt Club airfield for Canada's 60th Anniversary celebrations.
Pilot Lieut. Thad Johnson is killed in a plane crash as he approaches
airfield. Airfield becomes known as Lindbergh Field following this
but later becomes known as Uplands Aerodrome and later, Uplands Airport.
1927 - (September 25) Rockcliffe
streetcar barn destroyed by fire, 40 streetcars lost. This ended the
era of open streetcars. [Ottawa Citizen, September 27, 1927
p.18][Ottawa Journal, September 26, 1927 p.1, 7] View News Clipping. View News Lipping 7.
1927 - (December 8) Former township
clerk treasurer Hugh Braddish Billings found guilty of missappropriating
$20,000 [Ottawa Citizen, December 9, 1927 p. 14].
1928 - (January 14) Ottawa
Flying Club incorporated and operates out of Lindbergh (Uplands)
airfield.
1928 - (February 14 and 22) Billings
Bridge name change suggested. Possible names include 'Dawson' and
'Southmount'.
1928 - (April 30) New Victoria Tennis Club house completed on Victoria Street (Montgomery) Eastview [Ottawa Citizen, April 30, 1928 p.31].
1928 - (October 1) The Dominion
Bureau of Statistics (now Statistics Canada) locates in the old Edwards
Mill on Green Island. The facility is shared with the National Research
Council. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics relocates to Tunney's Pasture
in 1952. The Edwards Mill was demolished in the summer of 1957.
1928 - (October 18) Footbridge between Strathcona Park and the Rideau Lawn Tennis Club is washed away. [Ottawa Citizen, October 19, 1928 p.1] View News Story.
1928 - Scheduled bus service to
Cyrville commences operation. It was taken over by the Ottawa Transportation
Commission in 1950.
1929 - (January 16) Eastview Police Commission established [Ottawa Journal, January 17, 1929 p.15].
1929 - (May 14) The Rockcliffe
Park Crown Game Preserve was established in order to combat excessive
hunting and poaching. It was further expanded on January 14, 1931
and covered Rockcliffe Park, the Rockcliffe Air Station, Beechwood
Cemetery, and other lands extending as far east as Skead Road (Blair
Road) and as far south as Montreal Road. It was cancelled in 1945.
1929 - (May 29) A major sewer
explosion affects parts of Ottawa, Eastview and New Edinburgh. There
was one fatality, several injuries and considerable property damage.
This was followed by a second serious explosion on January 28, 1931.
Inadequate sewer venting, and leakage (or dumping) of illumination
gas, gasoline and dry cleaning chemicals were the suspected causes. [Ottawa Journal, May 29, 1929 p.1, 2, 20] View News Story. View News Story 2. View News Story 20.
1929 - (June 23) First special demonstations for St. Jean Baptiste day at St. Joseph d'Orléans. A statue for St. Jean Baptiste donated by J.A.J Guerin is benedicted [Ottawa Journal, June 24, 1929 p.13].
1930 - Billings Bridge Horticultural
Society founded [Ottawa Citizen, May 20, 1935 p.20].
1930 - New Hog's Back Swing Bridge built. [Ottawa Citizen, December 23, 1929 p.1] 1930 - Billings Bridge Horticultural">View News Story.
1930 - Overbrook Volunteer Fire Brigade established. Charles Weatherall is the first chief and L. White deputy chief [Ottawa Citizen, April 17, 1930 p.2].
1930 - (September 3) Reeve Thomas
Andrew Spratt dies while in office. [Gloucester Council Minutes,
September 8, 1930 p.89]
1930 - (March 12) World War I
flying ace William George Barker crashes into the frozen Ottawa River
and dies while performing aerial demonstrations at Rockcliffe airport
[Ottawa Citizen, March 20, 1930 p. 13].
1930 - Provincial highways named
"The King's Highways" to show respect for the King and the monarchy.
The familiar provincial highway sign design with the crown is unveiled.
1931 - Hydro towers first erected
across Gloucester. Some of these collapsed during the 1998 ice storm.
1931 - Two islands at Billings Bridge, including the island that the bridge crossed over and an island at Hurdman's Bridge are removed the Rideau River as a relief project [Ottawa Citizen, March 2, 1931 p.1].
1931 - (January 28) A second round of major sewer explosions affected Sandy Hill, Eastview and New Edinburgh. [Ottawa Citizen, January 29, 1931 p.17, 18, 21] View News Story. View News Story 18. View News Story 21.
1931 - (July 30) Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and wife Anne Morrow arrive by Lockheed Sirius Monoplane on the Ottawa River at the Rockcliffe Aerodrome while on a vacation trip to Japan. They departed on August 1st. [Ottawa Journal, July 31, 1931 p.5]
1931 - (December 14) Rockcliffe streetcar service replaced with bus service entering village. The bus service was discontinued on April 30, 1932 [Ottawa Journal, December 11, 1931 p.25, View News Clipping April 29, 1932 p.1][Ottawa Citizen, April 9, 1932 p.30] View News Clipping. [Ottawa Citizen, April 18, 1932 p.1] View News Clipping.[Ottawa Citizen, December 12, 1931 p.2] View News Clipping.
1931 - (December 21) Street car routes are identified with an illuminated letter starting this date [Ottawa Journal, December 21, 1931 p.4]. View News Clipping.
1932 - New swing bridge being built at Manotick. [Ottawa Journal, January 8, 1932 p.1]. View News Clipping.
1932 - Buena Vista loop built on Rockcliffe streetcar line to allow abando nment beyond to Cloverdale Avenue [Ottawa Citizen, April 30, 1932 p.2]. View News Clipping.
1932 - (September 18) Rockcliffe
streetcar barn again burns. Additional equipment destroyed. [Ottawa
Citizen, September 19, 1932 p.2], [Ottawa Journal, September 19, 1932 p.7] View News Clipping.
1933 - (June 7) Severe hailstorm strikes
area from Rockcliffe and Eastview through Cyrville, Hawthorne to Russell
and Embrun. Considerable damage to local greenhouses, windows and crops. Hailstones measure as large as eggs and fists. [Ottawa Citizen, June 7,1933 p.1]
1933 - (July 2) The Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission purchases land on Russell Road south of Smyth Road for broadcasting transmitters. This was used by CBO radio [Property Records].
1933 - (August 13) The last green street cars are removed from Ottawa Electric Railway service on the Hull - St. Patrick route and Bank - Rideau - Laurier route. As of this date, the conductor and motormen positions were merged and became 'Operators'. Passengers were to enter at the front door. All street cars after this date were red. [Ottawa Citizen, August 9,1933 p.2]
1933 - Steel Mud Creek bridge over Green's Creek on Innes Road re-built. [Ottawa Citizen, March 6, 1934 p.1] View News Clipping.
1934 - (January 17) Rockcliffe Streetcar right of way beyond the Beuna Vista loop is transferred to the Federal District Commission for $1 [Ontario Land Registry records].
1934 - (July 14) RCAF air show at Rockcliffe Aerodrome [Ottawa Journal, July 13, 1934 p.15].
1934 - (August 26) Parson's Dairy Farm, Heron Road destroyed by fire. [Ottawa Journal, August 27, 1934 p.16] View News Story.
1935 - The former Soper residence is acquired by the United States government as the residence for the American Ambassador to Canada. The Honourable Norman Armour takes up residence in early November 1936 following extensive renovations [Ottawa Journal, November 4, 1936 p.8, January 10, 1953 p.3].
1935 - (May 1) Ontario government steps in to manage Eastview's debt and finances under the Municipal Affairs Act [Ottawa Journal, January 11, 1936 p.6]. Read Clipping.
1935 - (May 3) Inaugural meeting of the Carleton Tennis Club takes place at the Talmud Torah Hall. This became the Tel-Aviv Tennis Club which opened on June 18, 1935 using the Victoria Tennis Club facility on Victoria Street (now Montgomery) in Eastview [Ottawa Journal, May 3, 1935 p.31, Ottawa Citizen, June 18, 1935 p.15].
1935 - (August 4) Hailstorm causes widespread crop damage on a strip between Metcalfe, Kars, Manotick, Metcalfe, Carlsbad Springs and Orléans [Ottawa Journal, August 5, 1935 p.1].
1936 - Tel-Aviv Tennis Club takes over Riverdale Tennis Club facility on River Road in Overbrook starting with the 1936 season. It had used the Victoria Tennic Club facility in Eastview for 1935 [Ottawa Citizen, April 13, 1936 p.2].
1936 - (August 15) New Hog's Back bridge and dam opens [Ottawa Citizen, August 14, 1936 p.1]. View News Clipping.
1936 - (July 28) Hail storm causes widespread crop damage in Cyrville, Navan Road, Russell Road and further east in Cumberland Township [Ottawa Journal, July 29, 1936 p.1].
1936 - Hog's Back beach opens just
south of the bridge. It was replaced by Mooney's Bay in 1952.
1936 - Metcalfe Road becomes King's Highway 31 from Carleton County Line to Ottawa. The section within Dundas County had been Highway 31 previously [Ottawa Citizen, August 20, 1936 p.5, February 12, 1937 p.17].
1936 - A special Ward 6 Separate School Board is created in Eastview by Provincial Act [Ottawa Journal, January 14, 1963 p.44].
1937 - 'The Rockeries' Park is
created from land donated by the Ottawa Electric Railway, when streetcar
rails are lifted on abandoned right of way to former Dominion Rifle
Association Rifle Range at Rockcliffe. This is a location known for
spectacular daffodil plantings [Ottawa Journal, July 30, 1937 p.12] View News Clipping.
1937 - (March 24) Rockcliffe
ski jump being demolished [Ottawa Journal, March 24, 1937 p.19].
1937 - (May 14) Coronation Park named for the park adjacent to the Gloucester Township Hall at Billings Bridge in honour of the Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. The park was maintained by the Billings Bridge Horticultural Society . The park disappeared when the township hall was sold in the early 1960s [Ottawa Citizen, May 17, 1937 p.5].
1937 - (June 23) Rockcliffe
streetcar barn burns a third time. 40 older streetcars were destroyed [Ottawa Citizen, June 23, 1937 p.1, 4]. View News Clipping. View News Clipping 4.
1937 - (November 21) Dial telephone service introduced for 15,000 Ottawa and Hull customers [Ottawa Journal, November 17, 1937 p.15].
1938 - Former Bronson Avenue swing bridge to replace fixed bridge north of Dickenson Mill in Manotick.[Ottawa Citizen, May 6, 1938 p.4] View News Story.
1938 - (January 1) Carleton County Police
Force disbanded. Three Ontario Police officers named to serve in Carleton County [Ottawa Journal, December 22, 1937 p.3]. View News Story.
1938 - (August 20 2:30 p.m.) Department
of Transport officially opens Uplands Airport. It is at this point
that permanent runways, hangars, and terminal are built.[Ottawa Journal, August 20, 1938 p.12] View News Story.
1938 - (October 17) Trans-Canada
Air Lines inaugurate air express freight service at Uplands Airport.[Ottawa Citizen, October 19, 1938 p.24] View News Story.
1938 - (October 18) New No. 6 New Edinburgh fire hall opens on McKay Street at Vaughan Street replacing Sussex Street fire hall [Ottawa Jounral, October 19, 1938 p.5].
1938 - (September 30) Le Séminaire des Pères
Blancs (White Fathers Seminary) blessed by Archbishop Forbes in Eastview in order to train
missionaries for Africa. [Ottawa Journal, October 1, 1938 p.13] View News Story. The building opened to students on September 10, 1938. [Ottawa Journal, September 12, 1938 p.12] View News Story. It closed in 1974 and was demolished in 1977.
The Vanier City Hall later located on the same site in a new building.
1939 - (August 24) Reeve John
Innes dies in office. [Gloucester Council Minutes 1938-1939,
September 5, 1939 p.102]
1939 - (July 28) CNR abandons old Canadian
Northern Railway L'Orignal subdivision between Hurdman's Bridge and Hawkesbury via Orléans [Ottawa Citizen, July 31, 1939 p.3]. Abandonment had first been proposed in 1935 [Ottawa Citizen, January 25, 1935 p.18].
1939 - (April 2) Trans Canada
Airlines begin commercial passenger flights at Uplands airport. [Ottawa
Citizen, April 3, 1939 p.1 View News Story p.2 View News Story]
1939 - (November) Rockcliffe airfield paved
in preparation for World War II operations.[Ottawa Journal, October 31, 1939 p.1 View News Story p.12 View News Story].
1939 - (January 4) French Embassy opens on
Sussex Drive on land purchased from the Blackburn family in 1931.[Ottawa Journal, January 4, 1939 p.6] View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, January 5, 1939 p.15] View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, January 3, 1939 p.9] View News Story. [Ottawa Journal, January 5, 1939 p.7] View News Story.
1939 - (September 1) No 1 Provost
Company is called into active service by the army and trains at the
RCMP "N" Division, Rockcliffe. This company is composed of RCMP volunteers.
1940 - The first portion of Alta
Vista Drive opens between Smyth Road and Randall Avenue. It was known
as Churchill Avenue prior to annexation in 1950.[Gloucester Township Minutes and Financial Statement for the year 1939-1940 p.77]
1940 - Rail spur built from Wass
Junction to Uplands Airport to facilitate Air Training School construction.
1940 - British Commonwealth Air
Training Plan begins at Uplands airfield (construction of 37 buildings
and 6 new runways commences on May 14 and the training school opens
August 5) [Ottawa Journal, August 6, 1940 p.3] (Canadian
Forces Base Uplands History) and at Rockcliffe airport to train
pilots for the war effort, using Harvard and Yale aircraft. Continues
until 1944.
1940 - Department of National
Defence purchases land near Blackburn to establish Proving Grounds.
1940 - Crown Princess Juliana
of the Netherlands and her children take up residence in Rockcliffe
Park until 1944. Part of their stay was at Stornoway, later the residence
of the Leader of the Opposition. Princess Margriet was born at Ottawa
Civic Hospital on January 19, 1943.
1940 - Sundial plaque and cairn erected by the Gloucester Horticultural Society at the corner of Walkley Road and Russell Road in memory of Reeve John Innes who died in office in 1939.
1940 - (April) Eastview Chamber of Commerce formed [Ottawa Citizen, April 19, 1940 p.9].
1940 - (July 5) Uplands Bus
Lines commences hourly bus service from Bank and Grove to Uplands
airport and Bowesville. A terminal and station is opened at 1270 Bank
Steet in Ottawa South in 1941. [Ottawa Journal, July 6,
1940 pg. 9]
1940 - (July 13) Don McDiarmid of the Rideau Lawn Tennis Club wins the Canadian men's singles tennis championship in Quebec City [Ottawa Citizen, July 15, 1940 p.10]. He won the National Capital Tennis Association City Championship in 1938, 1941, 1946, 1947 and 1948. There was no championship given out in 1942 through 1945.
1940 - (September 27) Yale Training aircraft crashes two miles south of Uplands killing Wing Commander Grenville Hammerton Shaw, Westmount Quebec of the Royal Air Force and Flying Officer Donald Sidney Thomson Young, Montreal Quebec of the RCAF. The plane crashed into a rock outcrop on the Kemp farm in Leitrim [Ottawa Citizen, September 28, 1940, p.12, Ottawa Journal, September 28, 1940 p.32].
1940 - (October 1) Remainder of the Rockcliffe
streetcar barn is demolished [Ottawa Citizen, September 30, 1940, p.23].View News Clipping.
1941 - (January) George H. Rochester named as Chief Air Raid Precautions (ARP) Warden for the Ottawa district [Ottawa Citizen, January 8, 1941, p.12].
1941 - Air Raid Precautions (ARP) established in Ottawa area including fire fighting auxiliaries, anti-sabotage controls, first aid, black out patrols, and police duty. Firefighting equipment and air raid sirens are to purchased. Local districts include north district (Quebec), west district, central district including Billings Bridge and Hog's Back, east district including Eastview, Overbrook, Rockcliffe and Rockcliffe Annex, a district covering the Ottawa River and a district for railway infrastructure including Hurdman's Bridge and Cyrville. ARP was first established in coastal areas shortly after war declaration in 1939 [Ottawa Citizen, March 1, 1941, p.25].
1941 - (Filming commenced July
16 in Ottawa area) The Hollywood movie'Captains
of the Clouds' (Wikipedia
link) (A
historical North Bay perspective of the film) starring James Cagney
was filmed at Uplands Airport, with the full cooperation of the British
Commonwealth Air Training Plan. This was Mr. Cagney's first technicolor
movie and was the first Hollywood movie filmed entirely on location
in Canada. The film was also shot at the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa,
and in Trenton, and near North Bay. The film was released in 1942
and was Mr. Cagney's second top grossing film in his career. [Ottawa
Citizen, July 16, 1941 p.1]
1941 - #1 Special Wireless Station
opens at Rockcliffe. It relocated to Leitrim in 1942, and it was known
as Ottawa Wireless Station starting in 1949. Since 1966, it has been
named CFS Leitrim .
1941 - The J.H. Parkin Building
is the first building to open on the National Research Council's Montreal
Road campus.
1941 - The Novitiate of Grey Nuns
of the Cross, Alta Vista Drive is taken over by the Department of
National Defense for the duration of the war and becomes the Rideau
Military Hospital.
1941 - Alta Vista drive extended between Smyth Road and Russell Road to serve the Rideau Military Hospital. [Gloucester Township Minutes and Financial Statements for the year 1940-1941 p.69]
1941 - Township approves the placement
of sand piles in various locations to be used by residents as a fire
extinguisher in the event of enemy attack. [Ottawa Citizen,
Dec. 12, 1941 p.15]
1941 - (January 7) Harvard Training aircraft crashes between Uplands and Edwards. Leading Aircraftmen J.R. (Earl) Dority of Ottawa and H.N. Dawson of Winnipeg were killed [Ottawa Citizen, January 7, 1941 p.1].
1941 - (May 5) Trainer plane crashed just north of the Hunt Club Golf Course on the farm of Bert H. Dowler. Flying Officer D.F. (Donny) Phelan of Toronto and LAC Jack W. Munro of Ottawa were killed [Ottawa Journal, May 6, 1941 p.13].
1941 - (June 17) Overbrook and
Bannermount lots offered for sale by Gloucester Township. The lots
had previously been lost to tax arrears.
1941 - (September 13) Twin engined Cesna monoplane crashes on the farm of R.P. Brouse, two miles south of Ramsayville. Squadron Leader Francis Evan Robert Briggs of Ottawa and Flight Lieutenant Wallace Richards of the Rockcliffe RCAF station were killed [Ottawa Journal, September 15, 1941 p.13].
1941 - (October 20) Approval given by Gloucester Township Council to build a new Manotick Public School [By-law 19 for 1941].
1941 - (November 3) Taxi License By-Law 21 approved by Gloucester Township Council.
1941 - (November 16) Two planes collided over Gloucester Township, one crashing on the west side of Bowesville Road about 3 miles south of Uplands while the second plane crashed on the farm of James Quinn on the east side of Bowesville Road. Pilots LAC Richard Wallace Heath of Lebanon, New Hampshire and LAC James Ward Anderson of Montreal were killed [Ottawa Journal, November 17, 1941 p.7] [Ottawa Citizen, November 17, 1941 p.3] View News Story..
1941 - (December 2) Engineer Frank Burrows was killed and twenty-four injured in a CPR passenger train derailment at Hurdman's Bridge [Ottawa Citizen, December 2, 1941 p.1, 12]. View News Clipping. View News Clipping 12. [Ottawa Journal, December 2, 1941 p.1, 12]. View News Clipping. View News Clipping 12. [Ottawa Journal, April 11, 1942 p.32]. View News Clipping.
1942 - (July 8) Uplands Bus Lines acquires a new bus and inaugerates service to Manotick [Ottawa Citizen, July 7, 1942 p.7, July 9, 1942 p.10]
1942 - (July 11) Uplands Bus Lines terminal opens in Ottawa South at 1270 Bank Street [Ottawa Citizen, July 11, 1942 p.6 includes photos and timetable] View News Story.
1942 - (August 16) Victoria Tennis Club house destroyed by fire on Victoria Street (Montgomery) in Eastview [Ottawa Citizen, August 17, 1942 p.9].
1942 - (October 14) Head-on railway
collision on CNR line just west of Metcalfe Road (Bank Street) at
Billings Bridge. 20 horses were killed or euthanized and 6 crewmen
were injured [Ottawa Citizen, October 15, 1942 p.15] View News Story. [Ottawa Journal, October 15, 1942 p.13] View News Story.
1942 - (February 2) 1450 acres of the Mer Bleue
are to be sold to the federal government for a bomb testing zone. This included Lots 1 to 6 Concession 5 and Lots 1 to 4 Concession 6 Ottawa Front [Gloucester Township Minutes and Financial Statements for the year 1941-1942 p.19]
1943 - Canadian
Forces Station Gloucester opens, originally named Number 1 Station
HMCS Bytown.
1943 - Federal Government serves
expropriation notice for 24 Sussex Drive, which was not settled until
1946. It was used by the Australian High Commission from 1947 to 1950,
at which time the house was substantially renovated. Louis St. Laurent
is the first Prime Minister to reside there in 1950.
1943 - (February 16) Eastview
Bus Company garage destroyed by fire including all but 3 buses. Bus
service to Eastview, Overbrook and Rockcliffe Airport disrupted. [Ottawa
Citizen, February. 16, 1943 p.1]
1943 - (May 13) RCAF Sergeant George Bennett of Eastview breaks world record by making his 1,300 parachute jump near Rockcliffe Air Station. [Ottawa
Journal, May 15, 1943 p.2]
1943 - (May 15) RCAF Squadron Leader George V. Miscampbell of Eastview is killed in a crash landing of a Mosquito aircraft at Rockcliffe Airport. Also killed, was Sergeant F.M. Dickinson of Woodstock NB [Ottawa Journal, May 18, 1943 p.17].
1943 - (November 12) Federal District Air Raid Precautions (ARP) being disbanded. Ottawa is considered not vulnerable to enemy action. Volunteer auxiliary fire services and equipment is offered to municipalities including Gloucester Township [Ottawa Citizen, November 13, 1943 p.21].
1943 - (late) Gloucester Volunteer Fire Association established. John Brown is hired as chief [Ottawa Journal, December 8, 1944 p.2].
1944 - (January) Rideau Veteran's Home originally
named the Rideau Health and Occupational Centre accepts first patients on Smyth Road.
It relocated to Russell Road in 1995. The full facility was not completed until 1945. [Ottawa Citizen, December 28, 1943 p.2]
1944 - (July 19) Ottawa Expansion Committee established to deal with post-war planning, development and growth [Ottawa Citizen, July 20, 1944 p.7]. Read Clipping
1944 - (September 28) Ottawa-Gloucester Expansion
Committee named established to determine the advisibility of the annexation
of 7,500 acres of Gloucester Township into Ottawa and the extension of city services into Gloucester [Ottawa Citizen, September 29, 1944 p.20]. Read Clipping. Their report was
submitted to Ottawa Board of Control on January 12, 1946 and later
accepted in principle by both Ottawa and Gloucester councils. [Ottawa
Citizen, April 4, 1949 p.8]
1944 - Gloucester Township Volunteer Fire Brigade established with district Air Raid Precautions (ARP) personnel including president John R. Murphy of Billings Bridge. [Ottawa
Citizen, May 26, 1944 p.12]
1944 - (February 5) 'Casa Loma', home of Mr. & Mrs. H.S. Southam in Rockcliffe is seriously damaged by fire. [Ottawa
Citizen, February 7, 1944 p.13]
1944 - (February 7) St. Thomas Aquinas
Separate School, Billings Bridge destroyed by fire. [Ottawa Citizen, February 8, 1944 p.7] A new 16 classroom school opens in 1945 on the east side of Bank Street. It closed in about 1970. [Billings Bridge, My Village, My Life by Gérard & Bernard Pelot, 1999, p.57]
1944 - (March 10) Capital Carbon and Ribbon Company factory, John Street, Eastview, destroyed by fire. $50,000 damage and George Golden dies in the fire [Ottawa Journal, March 10, 1944 p.1].
1944 - (June 6) Cowan Ice House
destroyed by fire at Billings Bridge [Ottawa Citizen, June 7, 1944 p.2, Ottawa Journal, June 7, 1944 p.20 View News Story ].
1944 - (August 17) Township authorizes purchase of Air Raid Precaution (ARP) fire equipment from the War Assets Corporation for Gloucester and Overbrook. A truck is to go to Overbrook. A new fire hall for Overbrook is to be built on the south side of King George Street near the railway tracks. [Ottawa Citizen, August 18, 1944 p.5, View News Story September 5, 1949 p.3 (picture) View News Story]. The Overbrook Volunteer Fire Brigade was disbanded in 1950 after city annexation.
1944 - (December) New Fire truck is received. Fire apparatus designed and built by Wilfred Beauchamp of Hurdman's Bridge [Ottawa Journal, December 8, 1944 p.2 (picture)].
1945 - The first township park
was purchased at Leitrim.
1945 - Commuter service commences
from Sarsfield to Ottawa
1945 - First demonstration in
Canada of jet aircraft takes place at RCAF Station Rockcliffe.
1945 - Pineland dance hall opens on Bowesville Road next to the Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club.
1945 - (June 29) School Area 1 formed from School Sections 3, 6 and 7 [Gloucester By-Law 5 for 1945].
1945 - (June 29) School Area 2 formed from School Sections 9, 10 and 25 [Gloucester By-Law 6 for 1945].
1945 - (September 24) Rideau Health and Occupational Centre officially opens on 280 acres facing the Rideau River and on Smyth Road. This would later become the Rideau Veterans' Home. [Ottawa Journal, September 25, 1945 p.20].
1946 - School bus service commences
to transport high school students from Gloucester, Nepean and Cumberland
to Ottawa schools.
1946 - Families are living in
emergency shelters at the Rockcliffe Air Force barracks and the army
barracks on Porter's Island, as a result of a post-war housing shortage.
The Porter Island barracks were demolished shortly thereafter. The
Rockcliffe facility was known as the 'Rockcliffe Emergency Shelter'
with a Post Office name of Finter. It was closed in 1954 and demolished.
1946 - (June 1) Don McDiarmid of the Rideau Lawn Tennis Club is named to Canada's Davis Cup Tennis Team [Montreal Gazette, June 3, 1946 p.17].
1946 - (July 28) Harvard training plane crashes on the farm of Ovide St. Jean near Blackburn. Two pilots were killed including Flight Officer T.A. Seeman of Ottawa [Ottawa Journal, July 29, 1946 p.20].
1946 - (December 19) Eastview Theatre
opens on Montreal Road at Kendall Street [Ottawa Journal, December 20, 1946 p.25]. It closed on February 15, 1958.
1946 - (October 30) First meeting of the National Capital Planning
Committee, under the direction of Jacques Gréber, develop and subsequently
implements the Gréber plan [Ottawa Journal, October 31, 1946 p.17]. Read Clipping
1947 - New garbage disposal area established near Billings Bridge, east of Bank Street in a ravine behind St. Thomas Aquinas Separate School near Kilborn Avenue. [Ottawa Journal, May 26, 1947 p.3] View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, May 27, 1947 p.11] View News Story. [Ottawa Journal, September 25, 1947 p.12] View News Story.
1947 - (January 21) Rideau Branch (Eastview) of Royal Canadian Legion is founded with the first President being Leo Cantin [Ottawa Citizen, September 15, 1947 p.12] View News Clipping. [Ottawa Citizen, January 27, 1947 p.12] View News Clipping.
1947 - (February 6) Inaugural meeting of the Ottawa Planning Area
Committee (later Board) operating under the Ontario Planning Act to review and recommend development plans in the Ottawa region [Ottawa Citizen, February 7, 1947 p.3] Read Clipping. It recommended a form of regional government or as an alternative,
the annexation of surrounding communities.
1947 - First Air Force Day celebrated
at Rockcliffe Airport. [Ottawa Citizen, June 5, 1959 Aviation
Supplement p.1, p.2]
1947 - One of the worst Rideau River floods. [Ottawa Citizen,
April 10, 1947 p.12]
1947 - Uplands Bus Lines introduces
bus service to the Rideau Veterans Home on Smyth Road. Uplands Bus
Lines also operated a bus service to Uplands airport and Bowesville,
which was inaugurated around the start of World War II. These were
the first suburban bus services introduced into the southern part
of Gloucester. They were taken over by the Ottawa Transportation Commission
in July 1950.
1947 - (January 18) Capital Lumber Company, 255 Montreal Road, Eastview, owned by Marius Vachon was destroyed by fire. The business was re-built before going out of business in 1961 [Ottawa Journal, January 20, 1947 p.24]. Read Clipping
1947 - (March 11) $500,000 fire at Plastics and Chemicals Company Limited on Hilton Avenue (now Marguerite Avenue) and Stephenson Street (now Stevens Avenue). 80 left jobless [Ottawa Citizen, March 12, 1947 p.4]. Read Clipping
1947 - (May 15) Uplands emergency
shelter opecy
shelter opens in former RCAF buildings. It closed on August 31, 1951.ns in former RCAF buildings. It closed on August 31, 1951.
1947 - (July 6) One of the worst hail and thunderstorms hits Ottawa. W.J. Gladman greenhouses, King George Street, Overbrook, is shattered by hail [Ottawa Journal, July 7, 1947 p.22].
1947 - (October 1) Expropriation Notices served to 200 property owners on the east shore of the Rideau River from Overbrook to Mooney's Bay [Ottawa Journal October 1, 1947 p.1].
1947 - (November 7) By Federal Order-In-Council,
the Public Works Department was authorized to acquire land in Gloucester
for future Ottawa industrial development. This would become the areas
east of Hurdman's Bridge and south of Cyrville. [Ottawa Citizen,
April 4, 1949 p.8]
1947 - (November 7) The National Capital
Planning Board approves a report of the railway sub-committee to remove
all railways from Ottawa and much of Gloucester except to serve future
industrial areas in Gloucester. [Ottawa Citizen, April 4, 1949 p.8]
1947 - (August 25) Linden Theatre
opens on Beechwood Avenue. It was renamed the Towne Cinema in July
1968 and became a repertory theatre in February 1973. It was renamed
the New Edinburgh Cinema in May 1989 but closed in August of that
year [Ottawa Citizen, August 23, 1947 p.25]. Read Clipping
1947 - (September 11) Cowan Ice House at Mooney's Bay destroyed by fire.[Ottawa Citizen, September 11, 1947 p.4]. Read News Story
1948 - Street Lighting installed on Bank Street from Heron Road to Walkley Road, in Rideau Park, Cyrville, Orléans, Russell Road east of Hurdman's Bridge (now Terminal Avenue) and on St. Laurent Boulevard (then Base Line Roade) from McArthur Avenue to Arundel Avenue and on Arundel Avenue in Manor Park [Gloucester Council Minutes 1948].
1948 - Sidewalks installed in Overbrook[Gloucester Council Minutes 1948].
1948 - Whale bones found at Foster's sandpits at Uplands and again in 1955 [Ottawa Journal, November 19, 1955 p.29].
1948 - Eastview Public libary opens at 259 Ste. Anne Avenue [Ottawa Citizen, June 21, 1976 p.5]. Read Clipping.
1948 - City of Ottawa Municpal tree nursery established on land owned by the Federal District Commission at the corner of Smyth Road and Alta Vista Drive [Ottawa Citizen, November 27, 1948 p.30]. Read Clipping.
1948 - (January 1) Municipal Pension Plan established as required by Section 404, Paragraph 41a of the Municipal Act [Gloucester By-Law 2 1948].
1948 - (April 28) Garbage Dump approved between Billings Bridge and Hurdman's Bridge between Riverside Drive and the Rideau River. [ Gloucester Council Minutes 1948 By-Law 34] [Ottawa Journal, May 17, 1948 p.17] View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, November 27, 1948 p.7] View News Story. [Ottawa Journal, April 6, 1954 p.12] View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, August 24, 1961 p.7] View News Story.
1948 - (May 17) Gloucester Township Council requests to establish Gloucester High School District [Gloucester Council Minutes 1948].
1948 - (June 11) Vampire Jet Fighter crashed 400 feet west of Skead Road (Blair Road) near the Ottawa River. Flying Officer Rooney Alexander Hodgins of Ottawa and Campbells Bay was killed [Ottawa Journal, June 12, 1948 p.3].
1948 - (July 1) Carleton Health Unit established serving Gloucester and Nepean Townships [Gloucester By-Law 1 1948].
1948 - (August 13) The Ottawa
Electric Railway Company including streetcars operating in New Edinburgh,
Lindenlea and Rockcliffe Park are taken over by the City of Ottawa
and operate under the name Ottawa Transportation Commission. [Ottawa Journal, August 13, 1948 p.1, 16, 17] View News Story. View News Story 16. View News Story 17.
1948 - (August 28) Gloucester Township dump catches fire threatening homes on Heron Road. [Ottawa Citizen, August 30, 1948 p.12] View News Story.
1948 - (August 31) Overbrook Recreation Commission created [Glouceseter By-law 35 from 1948]
1948 - (November 4) Fire destroys Epstein and Tenebaum Hotels in Carlsbad Springs. [Ottawa Citizen, November 4, 1948 p.1] View News Story.
1948 - (November 15) By-law passed
to have the Ontario Provincial Police patrol Gloucester, beginning
with one car. The police station is situated at Bank Street and Ridgemont.
The building still exists. OPP service begins December 1, 1948 [Ottawa Citizen, November 16, 1948 p.16] View News Clipping.
1948 - (December 3) Riverside Campsite tourist cabins to be sold off by the Federal District Commission. The business had been set up by Charles Weatherall in 1937 [Ottawa Citizen, December 3, 1948 p.10]. View News Clipping.
1949 - (October 9) Cornerstone laid for the new Roman Catholic Seminary near Hurdman's Bridge by His Excellency Most Reverend Alexandre Vachon, Archbishop of Ottawa [Ottawa Citizen, October 10, 1949 p.1, 12] View News Clipping. View News Clipping 12. It became RCMP headquarters
in January 1953 and never served as a seminary.
1949 - (March) New dial telephone exchange installed at RCAF Rockcliffe and to serve the National Research Council offices on Montreal Road replacing a manual service [Ottawa Citizen, March 9, 1949, p.3]
1949 - (May 7) Ottawa Senators win Allan Cup (National Senior Hockey Championship Trophy) with veteran Overbrook native, Cornell "Connie" Tudin [Ottawa Citizen, May 10, 1949 p.20] View News Clipping. Connie had played briefly with the Montreal Canadiens in the 1941-1942 season [Ottawa Journal, November 20, 1941 p.23] (View News Clipping) before joining the RCAF on April 8, 1942 [Ottawa Journal, April 10, 1942 p.20]. View News Clipping. He died in a car accident on October 24, 1988 at the corner of Rideau and Albion Roads [Ottawa Citizen, October 26, 1988 p.B3] View News Clipping. [Ottawa Citizen, October 27, 1988 p.C6] View News Clipping.
1949 - (July 29) Storm overturns footbridge at Rideau Tennis Club and blows off roof of Holy Rosary Novitiate and Scholasticate and destroys neighbouring barn in Orléans [Ottawa Citizen, July 30, 1949, p.1, 12, 18, 27] View News Story. View News Story 12. View News Story 18. View News Story 27.
1949 - (August 18) Billings family home damaged by fire. There was $20,000 in damage including the loss of many family heirlooms. [Ottawa Journal, August 18, 1949 p.1]
1949 - (September 19) Both Gloucester Township Council and Ottawa City Council approve plan to annex 14.605 acres of Gloucester land into Ottawa [Ottawa Citizen, September 20, 1949 p.12]. Read Clipping
1949-1950 - Most of the village
of Ellwood is expropriated to allow for the construction of the Walkley
Rail Yards and the Metcalfe Road (now Bank Street) overpass.
1950 - (January 1) 14,605 acres
of the township is annexed by the City of Ottawa. This included Overbrook,
Hurdman's Bridge, Billings Bridge, Ellwood, Hog's Back, Manor Park,
Rideau Park, Hawthorne and the developing communities of Riverview
and Alta Vista.
1950 - Fire Department was housed
behind Town Hall. Annexation places Gloucester Town Hall, Fire and
Roads Department miles inside of Ottawa city limits.
1950 - A citizen's trust purchases
'Stornoway' as the home for the Leader of the Opposition. The Federal
Goverment purchases it in 1970. The Hon. George S. Drew is the first
Leader of the Opposition to reside there.
1950 - The former Grey Nuns Convent
and Rideau Military Hospital, Alta Vista Drive becomes the headquarters
of the CBNRC (Communications Branch of the National Research Council,
now the Communications Security Establishment) and is known as the
Rideau Annex. It remains there until 1961 when it relocates to the
Sir Leonard Tilley Building, Confederation Heights.
1950 - 333 acres acquired from the Grey Nuns of the Cross by the City of Ottawa, which would later become the Riverview Park subdivision [Ottawa Journal, July 14, 1950 p.1].
1950 - Final Gréber Plan released.
1950 - (March 28) U.S. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt was killed in a plane
crash near Ramsayville. The crash site was located near Baseline Road
(now Ramseyville Road) and Leitrim Road on the farm of A.R. Gould.
It was a C-47 Dakota Transport plane that had departed from Rockcliffe
Air Station. The plane had caught fire and exploded before impact.
Also killed were Allan Harrington, Captain Thomas Archibald, Lt. Col.
W.F. Trueblood, and Lieut. Mark Belanger. There was one survivor.
[Ottawa Journal, March 28, 1950 p.1]. News Story Video
1950 - (April 27) Gloucester Volunteer Fire Commission established [Ottawa Journal, April 28, 1950 p.34] Local fire brigades to be established in various parts of the township.
1950 - (July 1) Uplands Bus Lines service replaced by the Ottawa Transportation Commission for service to Bowesville/Uplands Airport, Metcalfe Road and Rideau Park [Ottawa Citizen, June 29, 1950 p.17]. Read Clipping
1950 - (July 7) First traffic lights installed in Eastview on Montreal Road at the two intersections of Montgomery and Lajoie [Ottawa Citizen, July 8, 1950 p.28].
1950 - (September 12) Department of Transport announces the expropriation of 3,800 acres for Uplands airport expansion [Ottawa Citizen, September 13, 1950 p.20]. Read Clipping
1950 - (November 24) Overbrook Community Centre opens at Overbrook Public School [Ottawa Journal, November 25, 1950 p.24].
1950 - (December 26) Cyrville Bus Lines service taken over by the Ottawa
Transportation Commission. This included a bus route to Cyrville via
McArthur Avenue and Base Line Road (St. Laurent Boulevard. [Ottawa
Journal, December 23, 1950 p.8]
1950 - (December 29) Eastview Bus Company service taken over by the Ottawa
Transportation Commission. Ottawa buses extended to serve Eastview,
Overbrook, Manor Park, Ward 6 (Clarkstown) and Rockcliffe Airport.
[Ottawa Journal, December 29, 1950 p.5]
1951 - Bowesville expropriated
for expansion of Uplands Airport (now Ottawa's MacDonald-Cartier International
Airport).
1951 - Eastview Telephone Exchange building to be completed at Montreal Road and Olmstead Street [Ottawa Citizen, July 4, 1950 p.29].
1951 - (June 3) St. Charles Tennis Club opens in Eastview [Ottawa Citizen, June 4, 1951 p.19]. In 1952, it acquired some equipment from the closing Victoria Tennis Club. It appears to have lasted until 1955.
1951 - (July 10) The 200 foot outdoor New Edinburgh Swimming Pool opens on the former site of the Flat Rocks Swimming hole. It was located west of the end of Stanley Avenue on the edge of the Rideau River and was filled with river water [Ottawa Journal, July 10, 1951 p.12].
1951 - (July 13) Aladdin Drive-In Theatre
opens on Albion Road. It closed in 1993 [Ottawa Journal, July 12, 1951 p.8].
1951 - (August 30) Star-Top Drive-In Theatre
opens on Cyrville Road. It closed in 1974 [Ottawa Journal, August 30, 1951 p.11].
1951 - Lester Road built between
Highway 31 and Albion Road.
1951 - Albion Road named and opened
between Lester Road and Johnston's Corners in order to provide a replacement
road for Bowesville Road being closed for airport expansion.
1951 - Rothwell Heights begins
to be subdivided.
1951 - Les Soeurs Antoiniennes
de Marie opens next to the White Fathers Seminary in Eastview. It
later became the Vanier Public Library.
1951 - OTC bus waiting room opens near Rideau and Wurttemburg to serve buses from Manor Park, Rockcliffe Airport, Eastview, Cyrville and Overbrook [Ottawa Citizen, January 2, 1954 p.7]. Initially after the December 1950 take over of the Eastview Bus Company and Cyrville Bus Lines, buses were routed via Rideau, Charlotte, Besserer and Wurtemburg [Ottawa Citizen, January 10, 1951 p.20]..
1951 - (February 16) Bank and Grove waiting room opens as the terminus for Bank streetcars and Uplands and Metcalfe Road bus lines [Ottawa Journal, February 16, 1951 p.1].
1951 - (April 2) Bus service extended
to Hawthorne [Ottawa Citizen, April 2, 1951 p.11].
1951 - (May) Parking meters inaugerated in Eastview on Montreal Road [Ottawa Citizen, May 10, 1951 p.1]. Parking meters were not implemented in the City of Ottawa until 1958.
1951 - (June 16) Harvard plane crashes into Uplands airport runway during Ottawa Flying Club air show. Flight Lieutenant Vrooman is killed [Ottawa Journal, June 18, 1951 p.3].
1951 - (December 24) Bronson Trolley bus service commences operation. The former Toronto wooden streetcars were retired on December 22nd [Ottawa Citizen, December 24, 1951 p.2].
1952 - The eastern portion of the Rockcliffe Driveway between Acacia Avenue and the RCMP Barracks is renamed Lady Alexander Driveway in honour of the wife of the Governor General [Ottawa Journal, January 7, 1952 p.6].
1952 - (November) Gloucester Glen Women's Institute founded [Ottawa Journal, December 12, 1952 p.19]. View News Clipping.
1952 - (November 10) Improved Highway 17 opens which had been rebuilt mostly
following old Canadian Northern Railway railbed in vacinity of Orléans [Ottawa Citizen, November 11, 1952 p.1].
1952 - CMHC (Central Mortage and
Housing Corporation, later the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
opens its headquarters on Montreal Road. It was originally established
in 1946 to provide housing to returning war veterans.
1952 - (February 21) SHerwood 6 dial telephone exchange opened in Eastview [Ottawa Citizen, February 22, 1952 p.1, p.8].
1952 - (April 19) Victoria Tennis Club closes. The property is to be re-developed [Ottawa Citizen, April 10, 1952 p.25, April 18, 1952 p.1, p.26].
1952 - (May 26) Footbridge at Rideau Lawn Tennis Club swept down river by strong currents. It was not rebuilt [Ottawa Journal, May 27, 1952 p.1, p.3]. [Ottawa Citizen, July 27, 1952 p.1, 6, 12] View News Story. View News Story 6. View News Story 12.
1952 - (July 1) Mooney's Bay Beach
opens, replacing the Hog's Back beach that closed the same day.
1953 - Alta Vista water tower
built [Ottawa Journal, March 11, 1953 p.3 photo, May 1, 1953 p.3 photo].
1953 - (July) Bank Street railway overpass at Ellwood opens [Ottawa Journal, July 28, 1953 p.14].
1953 - (October 11) St. Louis Marie de Montfort Hospital
is officially opened [Ottawa Journal, October 17, 1953 p.29].
1953 - Eastview Broadcasting Corporation
established to broadcast radio. The project is abandoned.
1953 - Ottawa Dairy Ice House
(also owned by the Cowan family) west of Bank Street demolished. It had been originally expropriated in 1947 [Ottawa Journal, December 27, 1949 p.14].
1953 - (January) RCMP Headquarters
relocates to Hurdman's Bridge on the former site of a seminary.
1953 - (June 24) Cessna 140 monoplane
crashes at the farm of Kenneth Boyd, killing RCMP Constables John
Derrie McWhinney and Willard Boehler.
1953 - (June 30) Hog's Back cottage eviction deadline. This included cottages on Cowan's Lane near today's Terry Fox Sports Complex. Final removal or demoliton was extended until September 15 [Ottawa Citizen, July 2, 1953 p.14, Ottawa Citizen, July 31, 1953 p.34]. The cottages are to replaced by parkland.
1953 - (November 30) A new bus service inaugurated between Bank and Grove and the south end of Elgin Street at the Pretoria Bridge via Bank Street, Alta Vista Drive through Riverview Park and Hurdman's Bridge [Ottawa Citizen, November 28, 1953 p.7 including schedule and map].
1953 - (October 19) Streetcar service discontinued
between Sussex and John to Buena Vista loop in Rockcliffe and replaced by a peak period bus on a reduced schedule [Ottawa Journal, November 17, 1953 p.1, 16]. View News Clipping. View News Clipping 16. A trial all day bus service into Rockcliffe village began on October 31, 1953 [Ottawa Journal, October 29, 1953 p.3]. View News Clipping. The trial bus service ended on November 14, 1953 [Ottawa Journal, November 16, 1953 p.1, 16]. View News Clipping. View News Clipping 16. The bus service resumed during peak periods only starting on November 30, 1953 [Ottawa Citizen, November 27, 1953 p.1] View News Clipping.
1953 - (November 18) New cross-town railway tracks open at Walkley Yards, and from Wass Junction to Hawthorne Road [Ottawa Journal, November 18, 1953 p.18]. Wass Junction is named after Silas B. Wass, who was a railway consultant for the Federal District Commission and responsible for negotiating and the construction of this track.
1953 - (December 10) Clairson Lumber Company, Carillon Street, Eastview destroyed by fire. [Ottawa Journal, December 10, 1953 p.1 and p.24]. Read Clipping 1. Read Clipping 2. The fire damage was not fully covered by insurance and the company was forced into bankruptcy in 1954 [Ottawa Citizen, June 1, 1954 p.32]. Read Clipping
1954 - (November 16) Queen Mother officially
opens Bytown Bridges connecting Lower town with New Edinburgh and
Rockcliffe at Green Island [Ottawa Journal, November 16, 1954 p.1].
1954 - Passenger service discontinued
on Ottawa and New York railway between Ottawa and Cornwall.
1954 - Customs and Immigration office added at Uplands airport to accommodate direct transatlantic flights [Ottawa Journal, March 8, 1954 p.1].
1954 - (January 18) Sussex Streetcar that had looped at Sussex and John since October 19, 1953 was replaced by buses. The new bus route ends west of the Rideau River. Rockcliffe peak period bus service extended to the west side of the Rideau River via the Minto bridges [Ottawa Citizen, January 16, 1954 p.4]. View News Clipping. This would facilitate the construction of the Bytown Bridges at Green Island.
1954 - (March 15) Ogilvie Road
named. Known previously since 1952 as Gauvin Road. [Gloucester
1954 By-Law 10]
1954 - (March 24) Eastview voters defeat plebicite that would have allowed the sale of liquor in restaurants and taverns [Ottawa Journal, March 25, 1954 p.1 and 3].
1954 - (July 12) Sod turning for new school at Blackburn Corners that is to open in September 1954. [Ottawa Citizen, July 13, 1954 p.3]
1954 - (July 13) Steetcars replaced with buses on Crichton Street in New Edinburgh. A temporary bus circulator was implemented that ran from Crichton and Beechwood to Baird and Cumberland via the Minto Bridges. All St. Patrick streetcars were redirected via Lindenlea [Ottawa Citizen, July 13, 1954 p.4] View News Clipping.
1954 - (September 30) Rockcliffe bus service cancelled [Ottawa Citizen, September 23, 1954 p.43]. View News Clipping.
1954 - (October 21) Billings Bridge
Plaza opens [Ottawa Journal, October 21, 1954 p.39].
1954 - Rideau River blasting commences
to prevent spring flooding in New Edinburgh, Eastview and Billings
Bridge.
1955 - (August 13) Canadian National Railways relocate freight operations from Elgin Street to Walkley Yards at
Ellwood [Ottawa Journal, August 13, 1955 p.3].
1955 - (May 2) Lockheed Lightning
aircraft crashes just south of Uplands Airport killing pilot C.P.
McEvoy of Edmonton. Gloucester farmers Donald and Murray Hope witness
crash.
1955 - (May) Hog's Back Park and pavilion opens [Ottawa Journal, May 28, 1955 p.3].
1955 - (Summer) CBO radio transmitter relocated from Russell Road south of Smyth Road to the north side of Russell Road and west of Anderson Road. The old property was for sale in 1956 [Ottawa Citizen, June 24, 1955 p.15, May 4, 1956 p.48].
1955 - (September 7) Rockcliffe Driveway via the Ottawa Rockcliffe Club through Mile Circle to Birch Avenue in Manor Park is opened. This replaces a narrow winding route via Hillsdale Road. The new road was paved in the summer of 1956. The Lady Alexander Driveway winding around Mile Circle would be abandoned [Ottawa Citizen, September 7, 1955 p.1].
1955 - (September 15) Roman Catholic
Minor Seminary opens on Carson Road. It was blessed on October 2 by
His Excellency Marie-Joseph. Lemieux, Archbishop of Ottawa. This Seminary
first opened in 1925 on Rideau Terrace and was later located in St.
Joseph's Orphanage [Ottawa Citizen, Oct. 3, 1955 p.3]. This
is now the site of La Cité collegiale.
1955 - (December 12) Explosion in the heating plant at the National Research Council Montreal Road campus kills three employees. Ray Stroud, Jean Seguin and Gerald Carriere are killed. [Ottawa Citizen, December 13, 1955 p.1]
1955 - (December 19) New Hurdman's
Bridge opens. The Queensway will eventually use it.
1955 - (December 19) Dunbar Bridge
opens extending Bronson Avenue to Heron Road. Named after the Hon.
George Dunbar.
1955 - (December 28) Ellwood and Quarries School Sections dissolved ending sharing of schools between Gloucester Township and the Ottawa School Board. The dissolution of the Hawthorne School Section was to follow. [Ottawa Citizen, May 6, 1955 p.3]
1956 - (October 31) First zoning bylaw passed.
[Ottawa Citizen, April 30, 1974 p.2][Ottawa Journal, October 31, 1956 p.47] View News Story.
1956 - First Orléans fire hall built on St. Joseph Boulevard
[Ottawa Journal, July 26, 1960 p.3] The earliest reference to the Orléans Volunteer Fire Brigade in action was on October 7, 1954 [Ottawa Journal, October 7, 1954 p.42]..
1956 - (October 7) Bank Street telephone exchange building to be completed and the REgent 3 exchange inaugurated
[Ottawa Journal, September 22, 1956 p.1, Ottawa Citizen, September 24, 1956 p.5]
1956 - (April 25) Dominion Store on Montreal Road at Olmstead Street suffers $100,000 fire [Ottawa Citizen, April 26, 1956 p.26]. View News Clipping.
1956 - (October 18) Landriault Shopping Plaza opens at 55 to 71 Montreal Road, Eastview. [Ottawa Journal, October 18, 1956 p.8] View News Story.
1956 - (December 2) The last Ottawa manual telephone service switched to dial service and with it the end of 5 digit telepone numbers. The new exchanges included PArkway 2, 8 and 9 and CEntral 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6
[Ottawa Citizen, December 1, 1956 p.4]
1956 - Housing being removed at Nordic Circle near Billings Bridge following years of flooding.
[Ottawa Journal, June 8, 1956 p.53]
1956 - (January 9) Fairfield Public School (School Section 9) opens in Cardinal Heights. It closed in June 1985. Prior to the 1950 annexation, School Section 9 was Quarries Public School.
[Gloucester Leader, June 1985 p.5]
1956 - (May 15) Fighter
plane crashes into the Villa St. Louis Convent operated by the
Grey Nuns near Orléans. 15 killed. [Ottawa Journal, May 16, 1956 p.2]
1956 - (June 25) Bus service to Elmvale Acres inaugerated to Bank and Grove terminal. [Ottawa Citizen, May 21, 1956 p.2]
1956 - (November 15) Swing bridge over Rideau
River at Manotick replaced with high level bridge [Ottawa Journal, October 16, 1956 p.3] [Ottawa Citizen, November 16, 1956 p.38] View News Report..
1957 - Billings Avenue flag station abandoned by CPR [Ottawa Journal, July 10, 1957 p.19].
1957 - (February 14)] Ottawa and
New York Railway (New York Central) abandoned . [Ottawa Citizen,
February 15, 1957 p.29]
1957 - (July 1) A joint Gloucester-Nepean
Police Department was established with the first Chief John Rankin, 4 constables, two radio cars and the station at the Billings Bridge Township Hall. [Ottawa Citizen, June 14, 1957 p.7] Read News Clipping
1957 - (October 15) Queen Elizabeth launches
Queensway construction just east of Hurdman's Bridge [Ottawa Citizen, October 15, 1957 p.1]. Read Clipping
1957 - (October 26) CPR discontinues passenger
service on old Bytown and Prescott Railway [Ottawa Journal, October 28, 1957 p.21] Read News Clipping.
1957 - Military flight testing
and development operations relocated from RCAF Station Rockcliffe
to RCAF Station Uplands.
1957 - First fire station opens in Orléans. [Orléans 1950-1960 Saint Joseph Boulevard Remembers, p.38]
1957 - (January 31) Manor Park Shopping Centre opens. [Ottawa Citizen,
January 31, 1957 p.18].
1957 - (May 1) Major fire destroys
half a block of Cyrville including the Post Office operated by Wilfrid
Cyr, a furniture store and leaving 32 homeless. [Ottawa Citizen,
May 2, 1957 p.1].
1957 - (July 15) Orléans street names changes and made bilingual is approved by Gloucester Township Council. Ottawa Street becomes Boul. St-Joseph Boulevard [Ottawa Citizen, July 16, 1957 p.4].
1957 - (September) The cornerstone
of the Major Seminary of Ottawa on Kilborn Avenue near Bank Street
is blessed by His Excellency Marie-Joseph Lemieux, Archbishop of Ottawa,
on November 25, 1956 and opened in September 1957 [Ottawa Citizen,
November 26, 1956 p.7].
1957 - (September 25) Eastview residents vote 67.5% in favour of cocktail lounges and liquor being served in restaurants. [Ottawa Citizen,
September 26, 1957 p.3].
1957 - (October 31) The new City of Ottawa Municipal tree nursery is officially opened on the north side of Montreal Road near the sewage disposal plant. Part of the property was later found unsuitable for a tree nursery due to drainage problems [Ottawa Citizen, October 29, 1957 p.3]. Read Clipping.
1957 - First trees infected in the Ottawa area with Dutch Elm Disease [Ottawa Citizen, August 27, 1957 p.3]. Read Clipping
1957 - North Gloucester Little
League Baseball organized.
1958 - Tender to remove or demolish the Tel-Aviv Tennis Club house. 1957 appears to the last active year for the club [Ottawa Citizen, October 8, 1958 p.8].
1958 - Construction begins at
Confederation Heights office campus [Ottawa Citizen, May 26, 1958 p.34]. Read Clipping [Ottawa Citizen, July 21, 1958 p.3]. Read Clipping [Ottawa Citizen, November 12, 1958 p.36]. Read Clipping
1958 - (August 5) In the midst of a Ottawa Transportation Commission financial crisis, a private bid for the bus service was rejected, but the conversion of streetcars to buses goes ahead. [Ottawa Citizen, August 6, 1958 p.1] View News Story.
1958 - (October 22) Federal government authorizes Federal District Commission
(now the National Capital Commission) to acquire 37,500 acres including 22,500
acres of Gloucester farmland for the Greenbelt [Ottawa Citizen, November 11 1958 p.4 and 5 of "Suburbia"]. Read Clipping
1958 - The Merkley Brickyard at
Billings Bridge closes after being expropriated by the federal government
in 1954. This became the site of the RA Centre. The brickyard was
demolished at the end of 1960.
1958 - Vincent Massey Park named [Ottawa Citizen, December 16, 1958 p.17].
1958 - Cyrville Fire Hall opens.
[Gloucester Council Minutes, December 8, 1958] It was officially opened on May 22, 1959 [Ottawa Citizen, May 23, 1959 p.5].
1958 - (March 29) Fine's Flowers greenhouses owned by Harry Fine officially opened on Riverside Drve [Ottawa Journal, March 28, 1958 p.10].
1958 - (Early May) New bridge opens over west channel of Rideau River at Manotick [Ottawa Citizen, May 8, 1958 p.20] View News Story.
1958 - (May 12) Alta Vista fire hall located at Alta Vista Drive and Randall Avenue is officially opened [Ottawa Citizen, May 13, 1958 p.3].
1958 - (June 28) Mooney's Bay beach extended northward to form a 1200 foot beach. The original beach was 250 feet and south of the point of land [Ottawa Citizen, June 27, 1958 p.3].
1958 - (August 2) Ottawa City
Hall is officially opened by Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret on Green Island [Ottawa Citizen, August 1, 1958 p.73].
1958 - (September) First library opens
in the basement of Saint Joseph School. The first library board was
established by the Orléans Police Village in 1962.
1958 - (September) Cyrville Road overpass for the future Queensway opens [Ottawa Citizen, September 10, 1958 p.1]
1958 - (December 7) Talbot 2 telephone exchange inaugerated replacing rural multi-party telephone service in the southern parts of Gloucester [Ottawa Citizen, December 5, 1958 p.2].
1959 - (January 12) Streetcar service discontinued on Bank-St. Patrick route. [Ottawa Journal, January 12, 1959 p.17].
1959 - (February 11) Children's Aid Society of Ottawa administration building is officially opened at 1370 Bank Street (Billings Bridge). The Children's Aid relocated in 1993 and Billingswood Manor Seniors' Residence opened at this site in 2001 after the building was substantially renovated. This had originally the site of St. Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic Church, which had relocated nearby to Kilborn Avenue. [Ottawa Citizen, February 11, 1959, p.4] View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, November 25, 2000 p.H5] View News Story.
1959 - (February 16) Streetcar service discontinued on Holland-Laurier route. [Ottawa Journal, February 14, 1959 p.2].
1959 - (early April) Fire boxes begin to be converted to telephones at Alta Vista and Randall and Bank and Riverside Drive [Ottawa Citizen, April 6, 1959 p.1].
1959 - (April 6) Streetcar service discontinued on Preston-Rideau route. [Ottawa Journal, April 3, 1959 p.15].
1959 - (May 1) Final Streetcar service along the Britannia line discontinued. There was a streetcar parade through downtown on May 2 [Ottawa Citizen, April 29, 1959 p.2, Ottawa Journal, May 1, 1959 p.1]. Bus waiting room near Rideau and Wurttemburg is closed as east end bus routes are extended in 1959 to and through downtown. It was declared surplus and sold in 1960 [Ottawa Citizen, June 1, 1960 p.13]. Post streetcar bus routes were improved on June 29, September 28, October 5 and December 14, 1959 [Ottawa Journal, June 25, 1959 p.15 map, Ottawa Citizen, September 25, 1959 p.22 map, Ottawa Citizen, October 3 1959 p.2, Ottawa Citizen, December 10, 1959 p.5].
1959 - (July 3) New Mud Creek Bridge built over Green's Creek on Innes Road [Ottawa Citizen, July 4, 1959 p.19].
1959 - (August 5) Accidental sonic boom seriously
damages new Uplands Airport terminal, delaying opening until the following
year [Ottawa Journal, August 6, 1959 p.1] View News Story.
1959 - Pineview Golf Course established
as a semi-private course operated by the Leo Kelly family on land
leased from the National Capital Commission. [Gloucester Leader,
November, 1990 p.4]
1959 - (June 28) Archbishop Lemieux officially opens the Villa Madonna Retreat House on St. Joseph Boulevard (Old Montreal Road), Orléans. It is operated by the English speaking Oblate Fathers. It replaced a previous facility on Carling Avenue [Ottawa Journal, June 29, 1959 p.3]. The building was sold by the church in 1970 and demolished in 2008 and replaced with a more modern building, which is now the Madonna Care Community [Ottawa Journal, June 5, 1970 p.3].
1959 - (June 29) Buses replaces trolley coaches on Bronson Avenue [Ottawa Citizen, June 26, 1959 p.23] View News Story.
1959 - (July 6) Ahearn & Soper Company Ltd. were the first to turn sod for a new office and warehouse in the Belfast Road industrial area. [Ottawa Citizen, July 7, 1959 p.7]
1959 - (July 10) McArthur Shopping Plaza opens at 320 McArthur Avenue. [Ottawa Citizen, July 9, 1959 p.12, 13] Read News Clipping 12. Read News Clipping 13. [Ottawa Journal, July 9, 1959 p.8, 9] Read News Clipping 8. Read News Clipping 9.
1959 - (September 2) Coca-Cola truck crashes into Bank and Grove bus terminal. There were no injuries. [Ottawa Citizen, September 2, 1959 p.7] View News Story [Ottawa Journal, September 2, 1959 p.5] View News Story.
1959 - (October 23) R.A. Centre officially opened by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker [Ottawa Journal, October 24, 1959 p.17]. The laying of the cornerstone was officiated also by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker on July 21, 1958 [Ottawa Journal, July 22, 1958 p.3] and the building opened for use in May 1959 [Ottawa Journal, May 30, 1959 p.36]. The R.A. Centre was opened was opened for the Civil Service Recreation Association and was also known as the W. Clifford Clark Memorial Recreation Centre. W. Clifford Clark was the Deputy Minister of Finance who elicited government support for the project. [Ottawa Journal, July 25, 1959 p.31]
1959 - (November 13) First comprehensive
zoning by-law passed for all of Gloucester Township. [Gloucester
Council Minutes 1958-1959, p.177-200 By-Law 26 for 1959]
1959 - (December 5) Curling Club officially opened at the Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club [Ottawa Journal, December 7, 1959 p.17] View News Story. The Curling Club survived the 1962 fire.
1959 - (December 24) Alta Vista (now Vanier Parkway) Queensway interchange opens. This was Ottawa's first cloverleaf. The old Hurdman's Bridge is closed to traffic. [Ottawa Journal, December 23, 1959 p.5] View News Story. [Ottawa Journal, December 26, 1959 p.33] View News Story.
1959 - (December 27) Orléans fire hall building damaged by fire that left the Lavertue family of 10 homeless, who were living in adjoining living quarters. Emile Lavertue was a volunteer fireman. The fire hall portion of the building was saved from significant damage. [Ottawa Journal, December 28, 1959 p.17, Ottawa Citizen, December 28, 1959 p.9 photo].
1960 - Sawmill Creek diverted at Billings Bridge so that it enters the Rideau River east of Bank Street. It originally crossed Bank Street at the Gloucester Township Hall and just to the north of Billings Bridge Plaza and entered the Rideau River west of Bank Street. This was necessary to allow for the twinning of Riverside Drive. [Ottawa Citizen, May 25, 1960 p.3] View News Story.
1960 - (May 14) Former Manotick Swing Bridge dismantled and reused by the New Edinburgh Tennis Club to connect there clubhouse on the Ottawa River to the shoreline. [Ottawa Journal, May 16, 1960 p.36 ] View News Story.
1960 - (July) A new Orléans fire hall was under construction. There was a plebescite on October 17, 1960 to authorize an $8,000 debenture to complete the fire hall [Ottawa Citizen, July 27, 1960 p.22 photo, Ottawa Journal, September 23, 1960 p.44]
1960 - (June 15) New terminal
opens at Uplands airport. Official opening on June 30th. Construction
had begun in 1957. [Ottawa Journal, June 14, 1960 p.1] View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, June 15, 1960 p.27] View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, June 30, 1960, Ottawa
Airport Section p.1] View News Story Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5, Page 6, Page 7, Page 8, Page 9
1960 - (July) Capital Golf Gardens
opens on Highway 31 adjacent to Kempark. The golf course was abandoned in 2018. [Ottawa Citizen,
June 30, 1960 p.23] View News Story.
1960 - (September 1) The Eastern Parkway opens between Montreal Road and
Ogilvie Road. [Ottawa Citizen, August 31, 1960 p.22] View News Story.
1960 - (September 3) The Ottawa
Transportation Commission (now OC Transpo) opens its new headquarters
on St. Laurent Blvd.[Ottawa Journal, September 2, 1960 p.40] View News Story.
1960 - (October 25) Robert Campeau purchases 500 acres including the Hopkins and Watson farms that will later become the Beacon Hill neighbourhood. [Ottawa Journal,
October 25, 1960 p.1] View News Story. View News Story Page 5.
1960 - (November 21) Bank and Grove waiting room re-opens following 1959 closure serving as the terminus for Alta Vista, Metcalfe Road and Uplands bus routes [Ottawa Journal, November 18, 1960 p.2] View News Story. The waiting room remained in use until December 1973.
1960 - (November 24 3 p.m.) Twinned Riverside Drive between Bank Street and Dunbar Bridge opens. [Ottawa Journal, November 21, 1960 p.5]. View News Story.
1960 - (November 25) Queensway
opens from Hurdman's Bridge to Green's Creek. [Ottawa Journal, November 24, 1960 p.4]. View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, November 24, 1960 p.3] View News Story.
1960 - (December 15) Canadian Tire Store at 248 McArthur Avenue destroyed by fire [Ottawa Journal, December 16, 1960 p.3] View News Clipping.
1960 - (December 23) St. Laurent fire hall officially opened. [Ottawa Journal, December 24, 1960 p.23] View News Story.
1961 - (October 11) National Defense Medical
Centre officially opened. First known as Tri-Services Hospital [Ottawa Journal, October 11, 1961 p.25] View News Story.
1961 - Gloucester Historical Society
founded.
1961 - St. Laurent Boulevard railway overpasses constructed. [Ottawa Jounral, January 31, 1961 p.1] View News Story.
1961 - Billings Bridge rebuilt with a new deck. [Ottawa Jounral, January 31, 1961 p.1] View News Story.
1961 - Riverside Drive twinned between Heron Road and Brookfield Road [Ottawa Citizen, June 8, 1961 p.8]. View News Story.
1961 - (June 29) Elmvale Shopping
Centre opens.[Ottawa Citizen, June 30, 1961 p.3] View News Story.
1961 - (September 22) Aladdin Bowling Lanes opens at 435 Donald Street. It closed in 2000. [Ottawa Journal, September 22, 1961 p.18] View News Story.
1961 - (November 16) First major expansion of Billings Bridge Plaza opens. [Ottawa Citizen, November 15, 1961 p.35] View News Story.
1962 - Carlsbad Springs railway station demolished. The station had been closed for public use since 1916. [Ottawa Journal, May 17, 1962 p.3] View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, December 12, 1961 p.3] View News Story.
1962 - (January 5) Billings Bridge Bowling and Billiards opens. It was located on the second floor (above the stores) of the shopping centre. [Ottawa Journal, December 14, 1961 p.10] View News Story.
1962 - (March 20) Ogilvy's Department Store opens at Billings Bridge Plaza as part of major expansion of the shopping centre [Billings Bridge Plaza, A Swan's Tale, p.12] [Ottawa Journal, March 19, 1962] View News Story Page 18. View News Story Page 27. View News Story Page 28. View News Story Page 29. View News Story Page 30. View News Story Page 31. View News Story Page 32. [Ottawa Citizen, March 19, 1962 p.40] View News Story.
1962 - (March 20) The official opening date for the second expansion of Billings Bridge Plaza. [Ottawa Citizen, March 19, 1962 p.35] View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, March 19, 1962 p.36] View News Story.
1962 - (May 10) Gloucester-Nepean Police Station relocates from the second floor of the Billings Bridge Township Hall to the new Leitrim Township Hall [Ottawa Citizen, May 11, 1962 p.4]. View News Story
1962 - (May 12) New School Area 1 approved to add 6 rooms to Ramsayville School by merging it (School Section 13) with School Section 18 (Carlsbad Springs) and School Section 20 (Piperville) [Ottawa Citizen, May 14, 1962 p.26]. View News Story
1962 - (June 16) New Township
Hall officially opens at Leitrim. Fire and Works Departments also transferred
to Leitrim. The township first moved into the building on May 2nd [Ottawa Journal, June 18, 1962 p.3] [Ottawa Journal, May 2, 1962 p.23] View News Story [Ottawa Journal, June 15, 1962 p.9] View News Story
1962 - (August 8) Shoppers City East opens on Ogilvie Road at Blair Road including Freimart Department Store and Shop-Rite Foodmart. [Ottawa Citizen, August 7, 1962 p.19] View News Story.
1962 - (August 14) Towers Discount Department Store opens on Cyrville Road. [Ottawa Citizen, August 11, 1962 p.18] View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, August 13, 1962 p.25] View News Story. Discount Foods opened on September 19, 1962. [Ottawa Citizen, September 18, 1962 p.22] View News Story.
1962 - (February 25) Clubhouse destroyed by
fire at Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club [Ottawa Journal, February 26, 1962 p.1] View News Story.
1962 - (September 1) Rideau-Carleton Raceway
opens for harness racing. [Ottawa Citizen, August 31, 1962 p.22] View News Story.
1962 - (September 21) McArthur Lanes opens on McArthur Avenue. It opened with 5 pin bowling. [Ottawa Citizen, September 20, 1962 p.22]
1962 - Wind tunnel built at Uplands
Airport. [Ottawa Citizen, February 15, 1962 p.7] View News Story.
1962 - New concrete Riverside Drive bridge over the CPR (Trillium Line) opens replacing a dangerous wooden hump-backed bridge [Ottawa Citizen, July 27, 1962 p.2]. View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, June 8, 1961 p.8] View News Story.
1963 - Gloucester Coat of Arms
designed by Allan Beddoe and approved by council. The coat of arms
was officially put into use on January 1, 1968.
1963 - First Official Plan for
the Township approved.
1963 - (January 1) Eastview incorporated as
a city. [Ottawa Citizen, December 31, 1962 p.1] Read News Clipping.
1963 - (March 9) Riverside Garbage Disposal closes. Effective March 11, 1963, garbage was to be taken to Nepean Bay. [Ottawa Citizen, March 7, 1963 p.9] Read News Clipping.
1963 - (May 5) Direct Dial Long-Distance Telephone Service inaugerated [Ottawa Journal, May 4, 1963 p.16].
1963 - (September 3, official opening November 1) Gloucester High School
opens, the first high school opened in Gloucester Township [Ottawa Journal, September 3, 1963 p.4, November 2, 1963 p.9].
1963 - (June 3) Green's Creek
Pollution Control Centre, now known as the R.O. Pickard Environmental
Centre, opens.
1963 - (July 12) Mooney's Bay pavilion opens [Ottawa Citizen, July 17, 1963 p.9].
1963 - (August 26) Gloucester Professional Fire Fighters Association Local 1484 founded. http://www.ottawafirefighters.org/index.cfm?Section=10&pagenum=242&titles=0
1963 - (August 28) Odeon Queensway drive-in theatre officially opened north of Montreal Road near the Queensway [Ottawa Journal, August 24, 1963 p.32]. It closed in 1986.
1963 - (November 15) Walkley Road Arena opens to the public named 'Walkley Arena' after the pioneer family [Ottawa Journal, November 15, 1963 p.12]. Read News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, April 30, 1963 p.5] Read News Story.
1963 - (December 26) There is a major fire at the McArthur Shopping Plaza [Ottawa Citizen, December 27, 1963 p.1, 3, 34]. Read the News Clipping 1. Read News Clipping 3. Read News Clipping 34
1964 - Rail service stopping at Carlsbard Springs discontinued. [Ottawa Journal, August 18, 1964 p.8] View News Story.
1964 - (January 1) Gloucester
Police Department established and begins with 3 patrol cars. [Ottawa
Citizen, Sept. 24, 1964 p.5, Ottawa Citizen, August 13, 1963 p.3]
1964 - (February 3) Ridge Road Garbage Disposal Area opens. The Nepean Bay disposal area closed on Februay 1, 1964. [Ottawa
Citizen, February 3, 1964 p.31] View News Story.
1964 - (June 4) St. Patrick's Home
for the Aged, first established in 1865, relocates to Riverside Drive
opposite from Mooney's Bay.. The Home was officially opened on October
31, 1964 by Archbishop M. Joseph Lemieux.
1964 - (July 9) Agreement signed to proceed with the Beacon Hill development, which introduced development fees for the first time in Gloucester. Fees funded the extension of water mains, sanitary and storm sewers. Fees ranged from $200 for lots up to 6.000 square feet to $300 for lots greater than 7,500 square feet, $350 for duplexes and $1,200 per acre for multiple units [Ottawa Citizen, July 10, 1964 p.1].
1964 - CPR abandons old
Bytown and Prescott Railway between Sussex Drive and Beechwood Avenue.
1964 - National Aeronautical Collection
amalgamated at Rockcliffe Airport for public display.
1964 - The first Township Recreation
Board, GCCB, is established.
1964 - Uplands Airport renamed
Ottawa International Airport.
1964 - Flying Operations cease
at RCAF Station Rockcliffe.
1964 - The Carleton West-Russell
Historical Society founded, amalgamating local historal groups including
the members of the Gloucester Historical Society.
1964 - The distinctive new CBC
Headquarters (Edward Drake Building) opens at 1500 Bronson Avenue in Confederation Heights. It was CBC Heardquarters from 1964 until 1997. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Drake_Building
1964 - (December 7) The establishment of Gloucester Hydro approved by referendum [Ottawa Citizen, December 10, 1964 p.42]. View News Story.
1965 - National Capital Commission acquires Mer Bleue. [Gloucester Leader, March 1984]
1965 - Johnson's Hotel at Carlsbad Springs is for sale. It first opened in 1900 [Ottawa Citizen, June 12, 1965 p.10]. View News Clipping.
1965 - (January 1) Local school boards replaced by Gloucester Public School Board (elementary schools only).
1965 - Ritchie Feed and Seed Ltd. opens new mill and warehouse on Innes Road [Ottawa Journal, October 9, 1971 p.9].
1966 - (March) Gloucester library
board established.
1966 - (July 31) New Railway Station opens
on Tremblay Road [Ottawa Journal, August 2, 1966 p.3]. Read news story.
1966 - Terminal Avenue Railway
Freight Terminals open [Ottawa Citizen, June 7, 1966 p.33]. Read News Story..
1966 - Morrison-Lamothe Bakery building is completed on St. Laurent Boulevard. This was leased to the federal government in 1967 for the Museum of Science and Technology which became its permanent home. [Ottawa Journal, March 27, 1967 p.2].
1966 - (November 18) Overbrook Community Centre opens [Ottawa Citizen, November 21, 1966 p.23].
1966 - (June 15) CPR abandons the old Bytown
and Prescott Railway (Sussex Street subdivision) between Beechwood Avenue and Hurdman.
1966 - (July 17) CPR abandons the old Bytown
and Prescott Railway (Sussex Street subdivision) between Hurdman and Bank Street.
1966 - Orléans telephone exchange to be completed on Boyer Road. Service to be transferred from Eastview telephone exchange. New '824' service [Ottawa Journal, October 16, 1965 p.1].
1966 - Orléans water system being built [Ottawa Journal, October 4, 1966 p.3].
1966 - Ottawa Municipal tree nursery opens on Leitrim Road opposite the Fred Barrett Arena [Ottawa Citizen, , March 17, 1966 p.1]. Read news story.
1966 - (July) Gloucester approval
allows construction to commence on 650 acre Blackburn Hamlet development
by Costain Estates Limited. [Ottawa Citizen, August 3, 1966
p.13]
1966 - (June 23) Alta Vista Drive re-routed westward and twinned between Caledon Street and the Queensway interchange [Ottawa Journal, June 24, 1966 p.3]. Read News Story.
1966 - (August 2) Gloucester approval allows construction to commence on
700 acre development to become known as Beacon Hill as a joint Minto/Campeau
project. [Ottawa Citizen, August 3, 1966 p. 13] Development
briefly known as Eastgate. [Ottawa Citizen, March 8, 1966
p.20]
1966 - (August 10) Heron Road
Bridge collapses while under construction. 9 killed.
1966 - (August 30) Smyth Road
Bridge opens. Its official name is the George McIlraith Bridge named
after a former Liberal MP, senator and cabinet minister [Ottawa Citizen, August 29, 1966 p.1]. Read News Story. [Ottawa Journal, August 31, 1966 p.3]. Read News Story (photo).
1966 - (November) St. Louis Home for the Aged, Orléans, opened replacing St. Charles Home and is operated by the Grey Nuns of the Cross. It was officially dedicated on September 10, 1967 [Ottawa Journal, September 11, 1967 p.2].
1966 - (November 8) Hurdman Interlock Tower is demolished..
1966 - (December 13) Henry Munro Public School opens, originally with 6 classrooms in Beacon Hill. It is named after the person who obtained the original Crown land grant for the property [Ottawa Journal, December 14, 1966 p.57]. It became a middle school in September 1971 [Ottawa Journal, March 16, 1971 p.36].
1967 - (October 21) Centennial Pool, the first
indoor pool opens on Ogilvie Road, next to Gloucester High School [Ottawa Journal, October 23, 1967 p.39].
1967 - (January 11) Riverside Hospital
opens. [Ottawa Citizen, January 9, 1967 p.1] View News Story. [Ottawa Journal, January 11, 1967 p.4] View News Story.
1967 - (October 4) St. Laurent Shopping Centre
opens.
1967 - St. Laurent Cinemas open
in the St. Laurent Shopping Centre. It closed in 2001 but reopened
as the Rainbow Cinemas later.
1967 - (May 20) Air Canada DC-8
crashes at Uplands airport. 3 crew members die.
1967 - (June 28) Gloucester Ratepayers vote in favour of a "wet" Gloucester allowing the sale of liquor in restaurants, lounges and taverns. [Ottawa Journal, June 29, 1967 p.2].
1967 - (June 29) Heron Road Bridge
opens to traffic [Ottawa Citizen, June 29, 1967 p.2].
1967 - (November 15) Canada Science and Technology
Museum opens on St. Laurent Blvd. [Ottawa Journal, November 15, 1967 p.17]
1967 - Queen Elizabeth II donates
6 pairs of white mute swans to the City of Ottawa for Canada's Centennial.
The "Royal" Swans are housed at the City of Ottawa nursery at Leitrim
each winter. Eight swans were released into the Rideau River on June 28th. [Ottawa Journal, June 29, 1967 p.3]
1967 - (November 15) Memorial unveiled
for men killed in the Heron Road Bridge collapse on August 10, 1966
[Ottawa Citizen, Nov. 16, 1967 p.21].
1967 - (November 17) Orléans
Public Library opens at 4 p.m. above the bank in the Jean Gauthier building at 2744 St. Joseph Boulevard [Ottawa Journal, November 17, 1967 p.36]. In November 1978, the Orléans Branch was renamed the Bériault Branch, in honour of Dolores and Marcel Bériault, founders of the library. It relocates to the Orléans Recreation
Complex in August 1982. A further move occurs in 1993 to 1705 Orléans Boulevard.
1967 - Maple Leaf Almrausch Clubhouse
opens (Almrausch Bavarian Folk Dance Group and Maple Leaf Soccer Club) on Leitrim Road at Farmers Way. It was built as a Centennial project. The club was founded in 1963 when the dance group and Maple Leaf Soccer Club merged. The club history. Their first joint German festival party took place at the Coliseum on October 5, 1963. [Ottawa Citizen, October 5, 1963 p.28] View News Story. The first annual Bavarian music/dance festival was held on May 30, 1964. [Ottawa Journal, May 16, 1964 p.50] View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, May 29, 1964 p.34] View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, May 29, 1964 p.5] View News Story. The clubhouse property, part of the north half of Lot 13, Concession 7, Ottawa Front was purchased by Michael & Renata Grebler for $500 on March 15, 1966 and sold to Maple Leaf Almrausch Club for $1 on June 26, 1967. [Land Records] The building was
destroyed by fire on January 13, 1980 and rebuilt. Details can be found in 1980.
1968 - (December 7) Gloucester Lions Club chartered. [Ottawa Journal, December 9, 1968 p.22] View News Story.
1968 - Russell Road re-routed as some of the springs at the Boyd Hotel, Carlsbad Springs are capped [Ottawa Journal, August 13, 1968 p.3] View News Story.
1968 - (July 30) Grant McIntosh of McIntosh
& Watts China Store is granted a new franchise in the Central Junior A Hockey League with the name Ottawa M & W Rangers [Ottawa Journal, July 31, 1968 p.21 View News Story]. He purchased the dormant Ottawa Montagnards hockey club whose owners were also vying for an Ottawa franchise at the time. [Ottawa Journal, June 18, 1968 p.12 View News Story] View League History, . The team played out of the Leitrim Arena when it opened in September 1969. Originally, the team played at the Bell Arena with their first game taking place on October 18, 1968 with the first home game on October 22, 1968 [Ottawa Journal, October 16, 1968 p.14 View News Story]. The team relocated to the Earl Armstrong Arena with the first game being played on January 21, 1971 [Ottawa Citizen, January 19, 1971 p.18] View News Story.
1968 - Gloucester Hockey Association founded. [Ottawa Journal, October 25, 1968 p.16]
1968 - (January 8) Skead Road renamed Blair Road [Ottawa Journal, January 9, 1968 p.2] View News Story.
1968 - (January 17) Blair Road Queensway Interchange
opens [Ottawa Citizen, January 18, 1968 p.4].
1968 - (March 15) Dominion Bridge Company closes its Charlevoix Street, Eastview plant [Ottawa Citizen, February 20, 1968 p.8].
1968 - (August 26) Eastview Tennis Club opens on the grounds of the White Fathers Seminary in Eastview [Ottawa Journal, August 23, 1968 p.21].
1968 - (September 27) Tender deadline for removal of the two CNR bridges near Hurdman's Bridge [Ottawa Citizen, September 18, 1968 p.58] View News Story. Demolition of the south bridge commenced on November 20th, while the north bridge was already demolished [Ottawa Citizen, November 23, 1968 p.27] View News Story.
1968 - (December 19) Tender deadline for removal of the concrete abutments for the two CNR bridges near Hurdman's Bridge [Ottawa Citizen, December 7, 1968 p.51] View News Story.
1969 - (January 1) Carleton County
dissolved. Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton replaces it.
1969 - Carleton Board of Education formed which includes Gloucester schools. With this ends local school section and school area boards.
1969 - (March 12) Ottawa-Gloucester Guardian starts publication.
1969 - (April 12, 13) 500 tombstones toppled in Notre Dame Cemetery [Ottawa Journal, June 23, 1969 p.4].
1969 - (January 1) City of Eastview renamed
City of Vanier to honour the memory of Governor General Georges Vanier
who died in 1967. [Ottawa Citizen, January 14, 1969 p.3] View News Story. [Ottawa Journal, December 31, 1968 p.1] View News Story. [Ottawa Journal, December 31, 1968 p.3] View News Story.
1969 - (June 9) Construction begins on Highway 417 starting at Ramsayville. [Ottawa Citizen, June 11, 1969 p.5]
1969 - (September 27) Leitrim
Arena opens. It was renamed the Fred G. Barrett Arena July 9, 1984
following his death.
1970 - (May 15) Airport Drive-In opens
on Uplands Drive [Ottawa Journal, May 15, 1970 p.23]. It was converted into airport parking following
the 1997 drive-in season.
1970 - The Blackburn Hamlet Community Association requests bus service.[Ottawa Journal, February 17, 1970 p.16]. View News Story.
1970 - Gloucester Council passes by-law to clarify the name of the Third Line as 'Innes Road' east of Cyrville Road. Other names in use included Blackburn Road, Bearbrook Road, Cyrville-Navan Road and Navan-Cyrville Road [Ottawa Journal, February 4, 1970 p.14]. Innes Road west of Cyrville Road was likely named shortly after the 1950 city annexation.
1970 - Leitrim resident Fred Barrett
joins the NHL. He plays most of his career with the Minnesota North
Stars. He retired in 1984. Brother John also made the NHL in 1980
with the Detroit Red Wings, and played until 1987.
1970 - Gloucester lacrosse organized.
1970 - Youville Farm sold to Costain, which later became the Convent Glen subdivision and the Youville Industrial Park. [Orléans 1950-1960 Saint Joseph Boulevard Remembers, p.18]
1970 - Madonna Retreat House on St. Joseph Boulevard, Orléans sold by the Roman Catholic church and becomes the Madonna Nursing Home [Ottawa Journal, June 5, 1970 p.3].
1970 - The minor seminary on Carson's Road sold by the Roman Catholic church to the federal government and becomes the Language Training Centre [Ottawa Journal, June 5, 1970 p.3].
1970 - (January 1) Ottawa Board of Education founded replacing the Collegiate Institute Board of Ottawa. [Ottawa Journal, September 13, 1969 p.3]
1970 - (August 19) K-Mart in Blossom Park opens. [Ottawa Citizen, August 18, 1970 p.39]
1970 - Bryan Adams lives in Beacon Hill and attends Henry Munro Middle School for Grade 6, 7 and 8 and Colonel By Secondary School before moving to Vancouver with his family in 1974. Class Picture 1971-1972
1970 - (October 5) New main Ottawa
Post Office opens on Alta Vista Drive [Ottawa Citizen, Oct.
7, 1970 p.12].
1970 - (November 22) Gloucester
Police Station opens in the former Leitrim Public School. [Ottawa Journal, November 23, 1970 p.5] View News Story.
1971 - (January) St. Joseph's Orphanage, 71 Rideau Terrace, Rockcliffe was being demolished. It was known as Mount St. Joseph Home for disturbed children since 1966 and operated by the Sisters of Charity since 1968 [Ottawa Journal, January 9, 1971 p.20].
1971 - (April 3) Earl Armstrong Arena officially
opens, including the Ogilvie Road branch of the Public Library [Ottawa Journal, April 5, 1971 p.18] View News Story. The Ottawa M & W Rangers first played here on January 21, 1971 [Ottawa Journal, January 21, 1971 p.18] View News Story.
1971 - (May 22) NCC opens allotment gardens in Ottawa for the first time. The initial sites were on Pleasant Park Road, Baseline Road, and Aylmer Road. [Ottawa Journal, May 21, 1971 p.27] View News Story. [Ottawa Journal, April 3, 1971 p.22] View News Story. [Ottawa Journal, May 4, 1971 p.28] View News Story.
1971 - (September) Colonel By Secondary school
opens. The school was founded in September 1970 but shared the Gloucester High School building until the new school was ready.
1971 - Robert Hopkins Public School opens. Named after a former Gloucester Reeve [Ottawa Journal, August 31, 1971 p.26].
1971 - Lamira Dow Billings Elementary School opens. Named after the wife of Braddish Billings, the first permanent settler of Gloucester Township who was also the township's first school teacher [Ottawa Journal, August 31, 1971 p.26]. The school closed in 2002 [Ottawa Citizen, August 8, 2002 p.A1]
1971 - Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (Tom Cruise) moves to Beacon Hill with father Thomas III (Canadian military consultant), mother Mary Lee Pfeiffer and sisters Lee Anne, Marian and Cass. Tom attends Grade 3, 4 and 5 at Robert Hopkins Public School and Grade 6 at Henry Munro Middle School before returning to the United States in 1974. Read about Tom Cruise's early life.
1971 - (July 5) Beacon Hill Bullet
bus service inaugurated (to and from downtown). [Ottawa Citizen, July 5, 1971 p.3] View News Story [Ottawa Citizen, March 2, 1972 p.12] View News Story. It was taken over
by OC Transpo on March 2, 1973. [Ottawa Citizen, August 17, 1971 p.4] View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, August 27, 1971 p.11] View News Story. [Ottawa Journal, May 31, 1972 p.3] View News Story. [Ottawa Journal, October 3, 1972 p.43] View News Story. [Ottawa Journal, January 9, 1973 p.42] View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, January 12, 1973 p.3] View News Story.
1971 - (July 6) New Edinburgh Swimming Pool closes because it did not meet provincial regulations. The location is now tennis courts [Ottawa Citizen, July 6, 1971 p.3].
1971 - (late) Bearbrook Road running across the north edge of Blackburn Hamlet closed and redirected into the centre of community on the former Parkburn Boulevard [Ottawa Citizen, October 27, 1971 p.40].
1971 - Gloucester
Skating Club started.
1972 - (June 24) Blackburn Hamlet fun fair inaugurated. [Ottawa Citizen, June 15, 1972 p.50] View News Story.
1972 - Gloucester
Ringette Association established. The first teams in Gloucester
were established at the end of 1970. (History
Link)
1972 - (November) Canadian Forces Station
Gloucester closes. The NCC takes over the closed facility in the spring of 1973. [Ottawa Journal, October 29, 1971 p.2] View News Story. [Ottawa Journal, May 3, 1973] View News Story with photo. [Ottawa Journal, November 7, 1973 p.3] View News Story with photo.
1972 - Orléans Minor Softball Association founded by Frank Bender [Ottawa Citizen, August 14, 2003 p.C2].
1972 -Lycée Claudel opens at 1635 Riverside Drive, previously the University of Ottawa High School. Lycée Claudel is a private french language school offering elementary and secondary education. It was first established in 1962.
1972 - (August 9) Tornado touches down along the Dolman Ridge Road causing damage at the Komerani, O'Shea and Greenough residences. The path of the tornado was from Pineglen in Nepean to Billings Bridge via Mooney's Bay and reappeared in the Mer Bleue bog and continued to near the village of Cumberland with touchdowns at Pineglen, Dolman Ridge and Cumberland [Ottawa Citizen, August 10, 1972 p.21].
1972 - (September 21) First section of Highway
417 opens from Ramsayville to Vars. [Ottawa Journal, September 22, 1972 p.3] The final leg at 'the split' was not
completed until 1975.
1972 - (November 6) OC Transpo
extends city bus service into Gloucester Township suburbs of Beacon
Hill (Route 24), Blackburn Hamlet and Pineview (Route 25), Cardinal
Heights, Carson Grove and Beacon Hill North (Route 27), Blossom Park and Windsor Park
(Route 82). Initially, only off-peak service was delivered to North
Gloucester. Private peak hour service continued for the time being.
[Ottawa-Gloucester Guardian, October 31, 1972 p.1] [Ottawa Citizen, November 4, 1972 p.18] View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, October 18, 1972 p.15] View News Story. [Ottawa Journal, November 2, 1972 p.3] View News Story including map.
1972 - Pineview
Golf Course revived as a joint venture between the City of Ottawa,
Gloucester Township and the National Capital Commission to serve as
a membership based municipal golf course.
1972 - (February 3) The Vanier City Hall was
relocated to Dupuis Street. Vanier Police Station and former Vanier Council Chambers and Fire Station on Montreal Road at Cyr Street destroyed by fire. The building was originally a schoolhouse dating to the Janeville era[Ottawa Journal, February 4, 1972 p.1, 3]. View News Clipping. View News Clipping 3. This later became a Police Station. The building was sold on February 18, 1985 [Ottawa Citizen, February 20, 1985 p.C3] View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, February 4, 1972 p.27] View News Clipping.
1972 -(June 24) Gloucester Players (drama club) founded. Founders include Tom and Mary Lee Mapother (parents of Tom Cruise) [Ottawa Journal, June 24, 1972 p.29].
1972 - (August 24) Ottawa-Carleton
Regional Detention Centre opens on Innes Road. [Ottawa Citizen, August 25, 1972 p.29] View News Story.
1972 - (August 26) The first track and field meet takes place at the Mooney's
Bay Sports Complex, now known as the Terry Fox Athletic Facility.
[Ottawa Citizen, August 26, 1972 p.18] View News Story.
1972 - (November 8, 9) Elmvale Shopping
Centre converted to an enclosed mall. [Ottawa Citizen, November 8, 1972 p.60] View News Clipping. [Ottawa Citizen, November 9, 1972 p.37] View News Clipping. This subsequently reverted back
to an open-air mall.
1972 - (November 17) Elmvale Shopping Centre explosion and fire leaves one dead [Ottawa Journal, November 18, 1972 p.1, 5]. View News Clipping 1. View News Clipping 5.
1972 - (November 22) Billings Bridge Plaza opens as an enclosed mall [Ottawa Journal, November 21, 1972 p.16, Ottawa, Citizen, November 21, 1972 p.17-35]. View News Story p.17. View News Story p.20.
1972 - (December 4) Private express bus service inaugurated to Carson Grove. [Ottawa Citizen, December 4, 1972 p.3] View News Story.
1972 - (December 18, Noon) Airport Parkway opens [Ottawa Citizen, December 18, 1972 p.2] View News Story. [Ottawa Journal, February 15, 1973 p.3] View News Story.
1972 - Gloucester Coat of Arms
first appears on Gloucester police cars.
1973 - Blackburn allotment gardens open for the first time. [Ottawa Journal, August 18, 1973 p.33] View News Story.
1973 - Pineland becomes Tudor Inn Banquet Hall (next to Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club). [Ottawa Journal, September 10, 1972 p.19] View First Ad. Pineland re-opened as 'The Pines' on October 7, 1972. [Ottawa Journal, October 6, 1972 p.36] View First Ad.
1973 - (January 15) Information Gloucester
established as a volunteer staffed organization to field questions
about life in Gloucester [The Guardian, January 9, 1974 p.1] [Ottawa Journal, June 8, 1973 p.42] View News Story.
1973 - (May 31) Pine Road (Leitrim Road) municipal dump closes. It was located on the south side of Leitrim Road and west of the Trillium Rail LIne. [Ottawa Journal, October 12, 1973 p.27] View News Story. The dump originally opened in 1957.
1973 - Blackburn Branch of the
public library opens at 2536 Innes Road.
1973 - (May 13) Gloucester Police Force
and the Gloucester Lions Club collaborate with the purchase of 'Lionel',
the talking safety car, which made its debut on this day. [Ottawa Journal, May 12, 1973 p.18] View News Story with photo. [Ottawa Journal, May 14, 1973 p.3] View News Story. [Ottawa Journal, May 17, 1973 p.3] View News Story with photo.
1973 - (August 9) Tele Transpo neighbourhood transit commences service in Rothwell Heights, Cardinal Heights, Beacon Hill South, Pineview, Blackburn Hamlet, Riverside Park, Revelstoke and Bell's Corners. [Ottawa Citizen, August 9, 1973 p.14] View News Story.
1973 - (September 1) The Ottawa M & W Rangers Junior A Hockey team was renamed the Gloucester Rangers
in September 1973 when Grant McIntosh sold the team to Bryant Cougle. [Ottawa Citizen, June 30, 1973 p.31] View News Story [Ottawa Journal, June 30, 1973 p.21] View News Story [Ottawa Citizen, September 13, 1973 p.25 View News Story] [Ottawa Citizen, December 7, 1973 p.21 View News Story].
1973 - (November 30) Overpass opens to access St. Laurent Shopping Centre [The Guardian, December 12, 1973 p.1].
1973 - (December 9) Many bus route changes affecting Gloucester. Bus terminal at Bank and Grove closed. New south end terminus is relocated to Billings Bridge Plaza [Ottawa Citizen, December 6, 1973 p.14].
1974 - (January 1) Gloucester cedes the north
half of Long Island at Manotick to Rideau Township.
1974 - Police Village of St. Joseph
d'Orléans (Orléans) dissolved.
1974 - Blackburn arena opens [Ottawa Citizen, April 30, 1974 p.2, Ottawa Journal, October 22, 1974 p.18].
1974 - (January 7) Le Centre Franco (Centre franco-ontarien de ressources pédagogiques) is founded with Gisèle Lalonde to first director-general. Their location was at St. Joseph School on Joseph Cyr Street (Cyrville) in 1976-1977, 339 Wilbrod Street from 1977 to 1992 (Sandy Hill), 290 Dupuis Street (Vanier) from 1992 to 2002 and 435 Donald Street (Overbrook) since 2002.
1974 - (March 7) Three of a five man Vanier crew are swept to their death while trying to clear ice on the Rideau River [Ottawa Journal, March 8, 1974 p.1, 2, 5] View News Clipping. View News Clipping 2. View News Clipping 5.
1974 - (May 7) Regional council agrees for Gloucester to develop what became the Queensway Industrial Campus (Canotek Road) east of Shefford Road [Ottawa Journal, May 8, 1974 p.2].
1974 - (May 17) Children's Hospital
of Eastern Ontario officially opens on Smyth Road [Ottawa Citizen, May 16, 1974 p.88].
1974 - (July 24) A pair of Australian black
swans are added to the population of "Royal" swans as a result of
a donation by the Montreal zoo. The swans are housed each winter at
Leitrim [Ottawa Journal, July 25, 1974 p.3, picture].
1974 - (February) The South branch
of the public library opens in Blossom Park, initially at the Kmart plaza at Bank and Queensdale. This branch closed in
2006 and was replaced with a larger library in Greenboro.
1974 - (April 17) $165,000 (later
valued at as much as $750,000) in gold is stolen in an armed robbery
at Ottawa International Airport. Involved in the crime were Patrick
"Paddy" Mitchell, Stephen Reid and Lionel Wright but the
trio were equally well known for eluding police across North America
and for escaping from prison on a number of occasions. [Ottawa
Citizen, April 18, 1974 p.1, March 8, 1976 p.27, November 18,
1980 p.59]
1974 - (September) Gloucester Rangers Junior A Hockey team was sold to Alf Taylor in September 1974. He set a limited company and asked for members of the community to buy shares. Community investors included Fred Barrett, George Nicholson, Grant McIntosh, Harold Clark and others. [Ottawa Citizen, September 19, 1974 p.23] View News Story. [Ottawa Journal, August 29, 1975 p.12] View News Story.
1974 - (December 22) Major bus route changes affecting various parts of Gloucester. Route 27 inaugerated to Orléans [Ottawa Citizen, December 20, 1974 p.22, detailed charts].
1975- Gloucester
Fair opens for the first time at the Earl Armstrong Arena. It
relocated to Rideau-Carleton Raceway in 1997.
1975- (September) Cairine Wilson Secondary School opens in Orléans [Ottawa Journal, June 28, 1975 p.66, October 16, 1975 p.21]..
1975 - (May) J.B. Potvin arena opens on Shefford Road in Beacon Hill North. [Ottawa Journal, April 29, 1975 p.3, Ottawa Citizen, November 28,
2012 pg. D5]
1975 - (September) The first phase of the
Vanier Parkway opens between Beechwood Avenue and McArthur Avenue.
[Ottawa Journal, September 18, 1975 p.1]
1975 - (September 2) Lester B. Pearson Catholic
Junior High School opens [Ottawa Citizen, August 27, 1975 p.77].
1975 - (November 6) Vanier opens new Fire Hall and Public Works
building on McArthur Avenue [Ottawa Journal, November 7, 1975 p.21].
1975 - (November 25) The last
section of Highway 417 within Gloucester opens.
1975 - (December 4) Vanier City Council agrees to expropriate White Fathers property for a park.
[Ottawa Journal, December 5, 1975 p.37]
1976 - (February) Alta Vista branch of Ottawa Public Library opens. The official opening took place on July 15, 1976. [Ottawa Journal, February 21, 1976 p.28]. Read Clipping. [Ottawa Journal, July 8, 1976 p.31] View News Story.
1976 - (March 2) Gloucester Block
Parent program commences [Ottawa Citizen, February 18, 1976 p.47].
1976 - (April) The monthly Gloucester
Guide was first published in order to distribute Gloucester Township
information and community news. It became the Gloucester Leader in September 1981 and ceased publication in April 1994, when the City
of Gloucester decided to cancel its contract to publish city proceedings
with the Leader.
1976 - (May 8)
Sawmill Creek Pool officailly opens [Ottawa Citizen, April 30, 1976 p.24] Read Clipping.
1976 - (June 20) Vanier Public Library officially opens at its new location at 300 avenue Pères-Blancs on the White Fathers property [Ottawa Citizen, June 21, 1976 p.5]. Read Clipping.
1976 - (July 15) Olympic flame
arrives at Gloucester Place (Earl Armstrong Arena) on way to Montreal.
1976 - Rideau
Skating Club founded based in the Manotick Arena with some activities
also taking place in the Fred Barrett Arena.
1976 - (October 8) Ottawa
Athletic Club opens at 2525 Lancaster Road [Ottawa Citizen, October 7, 1976 p.11].
1977 - (March) New Township garage opens
south of Innes Road near Cyrville Road [Ottawa Citizen, March 3, 1977 p.4].
1977 - (February 1) Clubhouse at Pineview Golf
Course destroyed by fire [Ottawa Journal, February 2, 1977 p.2].
1977 - (January) Gloucester Synchro
Swim club is formed.
1977 - (May 1) The Ridge Road Garbage Dump closes. Effective on this date, garbage was to be transported to the Regional Dump on Trail Road in Nepean.[Ottawa Journal, April 25, 1977 p.16]. View News Clipping.
1977 - (July 5) The new Hog's
Back swing bridge opens [Ottawa Journal, June 29, 1977 p.49]. View News Clipping.
1977 - (August 8) The new Hog's
Back fixed span bridge opens [Ottawa Journal, August 5, 1977 p.21].
1977 - (October 15) Gloucester resident
Tracey Clark named Miss Ottawa Rough Rider [Ottawa Journal, Oct. 17, 1977 p.39].
1977 - (December 9) Gloucester Community
Police Committee established. [Ottawa Citizen, December 12, 1977 p.4] View News Story.
1978 - (May 14) Gloucester Police
headquarters re-opens at Leitrim after the former Leitrim Public School
was partially demolished and expanded to triple its size. The official opening date was July 22, 1978. The station had temporarily been located
in the former Johnston's Corners Public School building on Rideau
Road since June 1977. [Ottawa Citizen, May 31, 1978 p.6] View News Story with photo. [Ottawa Journal, May 10, 1978 p.57] View News Story with photo.
1978 - (May) Gloucester Historical
Society re-established.
1978 - (January 14) Gloucester Senior Songsters (choir)
established [Ottawa Journal, January 14, 1978 p.26]. View News Clipping
1978 - Eastern Driveway built from St. Joseph Boulevard to Blair Road but
remains closed because of the lack of access roads. [Ottawa Citizen,
June 14, 1988 p.C1]
1978 - (September 29) Richelieu Community Centre opens in the renovated east wing of the White Fathers Seminary. The centre block of the seminary, built in 1938 was demolished. [Ottawa Citizen,
September 28, 1978 p.6] 1978">View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, May 5, 1978 p.4] View News Story.
1978 - (November 13) Rockcliffe Park residents vote to go 'wet', however existing by-laws prohibit liquor lounges. [Ottawa Citizen,
November 14, 1978 p.61].
1979 - (March 12) Gloucester Centre
for Community Resources (social services) opens.
1979 - (May 8) Quota Club of Gloucester
chartered. This was a women's service club.
1979 - Gloucester resident Pat
Messner wins Gold Medal in women's slalom water skiing at World Championships.
Pat also won a Bronze medal for the same event in the 1972 Summer
Olympics, amongst many other achievements in the same sport.
1979 - (August 28) Place d'Orléans Shopping Centre opens [Ottawa Journal, August 24, 1979 p.18].
1980 - (January 13) Maple Leaf Almrausch Clubhouse destroyed by fire [Ottawa Citizen, January 14, 1980 p.12] View News Story. [Ottawa Journal, January 14, 1980 p.5] View News Story. The clubhouse re-opened on November 8, 1980. [Ottawa Citizen, November 7, 1980 p.10 TGIF] View First Ad.
1980 - (February 5) Gloucester Township and Cadillac-Fairview Ltd. drop Ontario Muncipal Board appeal ending a four year battle with the City of Ottawa over the location of the south-end regional shopping centre and giving the green light to proceed with the construction of South Keys Shopping Centre [Ottawa Citizen, February 6, 1980 p.4]. View News Clipping. View News Clipping from 1974 View News Clipping from 1975
1980 - (February 19) CF-101 Voodoo
Jet Fighter crashes at Ottawa International Airport. Pilot Captain
Robert Abbott of Ottawa and navigator Captain Albert Oostenbrug of
Stratford, Ontario are killed [Ottawa Citizen, Feb. 20, 1980
p.1, p.41].
1980 - (September 12) Orléans Recreation Complex officially opened. It had been open for use since the spring of 1980.
1980- (November 24) Gloucester Arts
Council established. It was renamed Arts Ottawa East after city amalgamation
in 2001.
1980- (December 8) Blackburn Library relocates to 199 Glen Park Drive, Commons Shopping Centre. [Ottawa Citizen, November 28, 1980 p.4]
1980 - (August 3) Ottawa General Hospital
opens on Smyth Road [Ottawa Citizen, July 19, 1980 p.2].
1980 - (October 9) Vanier Cineplex opens on
Montreal Road just east of the Vanier Parkway [Ottawa Citizen, October 9, 1980 p.78]. It closed in 2000.
1980 - (June ) Gloucester Rangers Junior A Hockey Club changes coach, manager and obtains new shareholders. [Ottawa Journal, May 30, 1980 p.15 View News Story, May 31, 1980 p.18 View News Story, Ottawa Citizen, May 30, 1980 p.23 View News Story, June 5, 1980 p.25 View News Story, Ottawa Journal, June 17, 1980 p.18 View News Story.]
1980 - (April 14) Developer Dorothea Athans
proposes a movie studio as part of a 126 acres development at the
corner of Hawthorne and Blais Roads [Ottawa Citizen, April 15, 1980 p.58]. It was never built.
1980 - (June) Gloucester Volunteer Awards
established. [Ottawa Citizen, June 16, 1980 p.6] View News Story.
1980 - (October 31) Second phase of Vanier
Parkway opens between McArthur Avenue and Coventry Road. [Ottawa
Citizen, October 16, 1980 p.4] View News Story. The final phase connecting
to the MacDonald-Cartier Bridge was never built.
1981 - (January 1) Township of Gloucester
incorporated as a City. [Ottawa Citizen, December 8, 1980 p.4] View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, April 9, 1980 p.22] View News Story.
1981 - (November 30) Gloucester Achievement
Awards established. [Ottawa Citizen, November 24, 1981 p.23] View News Story.
1981 - (November 15) Passenger service discontinued
on CPR short line between Hurdman's Bridge and Blackburn and Rigaud,
Quebec. This was part of the Transcontinental rail service that ran from Montreal to Vancouver via Ottawa. [Ottawa Citizen, July 28, 1981] View News Story Page 1. View News Story Page 5.
1981 - (October 6) Gloucester
Allotment Garden Association established, taking over discontinued
NCC program. 250 garden plots are located in Blackburn Hamlet (Orient Park) and
on Anderson Road. [Ottawa Citizen, October 9, 1981 p.47] View News Story.These allotment gardens were originally an NCC program that was transferred to the City of Gloucester for the 1981 season. News stories regarding the transition from the NCC to the City of Gloucester to the Gloucester Allotment Garden Association. [Ottawa Citizen, May 15, 1980 p.22] View News Story. [Ottawa Journal, August 18, 1980 p.27] View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, April 7, 1981 p.2] View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, May 27, 1981 p.5] View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, June 4, 1981 p.5] View News Story.
1981 - (February 2) Gloucester Meals on Wheels
established. [Ottawa Citizen, January 16, 1981 p.4] View News Story.
1981 - (October) Gloucester North Police
sub-station opens in a trailer at Shoppers City East on Ogilvie Road. [Ottawa Citizen, October 29, 1981 p.6] View News Story.
1981 - Gloucester City Crews begin
to replace volunteers in maintaining municipal parks and outdoor rinks.
[Ottawa Citizen, January, 20, 1981 p.4] View News Story.
1981 - (June 17) Ottawa City Council
approves to fill in Gloucester Quarry on Montreal Road with construction
site excavation material. This followed a 1978 drowning of a child.
[Ottawa Citizen, June 18, 1981 p.4] View News Story.
1981 - (July 3) The Mooney's Bay Sports Complex is renamed the Terry Fox
Athletic Facility to honour runner Terry Fox who passed away on June
28, 1981. [Ottawa Citizen, July 4, 1981 p.4] View News Story.
1981 - (August 12) Herongate Mall opens. [Ottawa Citizen, August 6, 1981 p.13] View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, August 11, 1981] View News Story Page 21. View News Story Page 22. View News Story Page 23. View News Story Page 24. View News Story Page 25. View News Story Page 26. View News Story Page 27. View News Story Page 28. View News Story Page 29. View News Story Page 30. View News Story Page 31. View News Story Page 32. View News Story Page 33.
1982 - (January 30) Gloucester South (Edward D. Jones Branch) Public Library opens at 2721 Bank Street. [Ottawa Citizen, January 29, 1982 p.22] View News Story.
1982 - (July) Orléans Public Library (Bériault branch of Gloucester Public Library) relocates from 1744 St. Joseph Boulevard to the Orléans Recreation Complex at 1490 Youville Drive.[Ottawa Citizen, July 14, 1982 p.78 View News Story, August 10, 1982 p.46 View News Story.]
1982 - (Fall) Gloucester Leisure
Service Guide first published.
1982 - (December 1) Billings Bridge
Plaza bus terminal opens [Ottawa Citizen, November 26, 1983 p.79]. View News Story.
1983 - (May) TV Gloucester first
broadcast on Skyline Cablevision.
1983 - (September 7) Old Hurdman's Bridge closed to cyclists and pedestrians [Ottawa Citizen, September 17, 1983 p.45] View News Story.
1983 - (September 24) Gloucester flag
designed by Harold Diceman first flown [Ottawa Citizen, September 23, 1983 p.23]. View News Story.
1983 - Gloucester Resident Horst
Bulau finishes second overall in World Cup Ski Jumping Final Standing.
Horst is a prominent world ski jumper from 1978 until 1988. He is
named Ontario Athlete of the Year for 1983.
1983 - (October) Gloucester South Seniors'
Club established. It met at the E.D. Jones Library in Blossom Park
starting on January 9, 1984 and in 1988 relocated to the former township
hall at 4550 Bank Street in Leitrim.[Ottawa Citizen, October 24, 1983 p.12] View News Story.
1983 - École élémentaire Séraphin-Marion originally opened using temporary facilities at Lamira Dow Billings Elementary School. In 1985, it relocated to the former Fairfield Public School. In 2004, it took over a renovated former Lamira Dow Billings School, which had closed in 2002. The school is named after Franco-Ontarian Séraphin Marion (1896-1983) who was a supporter of francophone minorities.
1983 - (December 11) Hurdman Station and Transitway link to downtown opens via Hurdman Transitway Bridge [Ottawa Citizen, December 9, 1983 p.22].
1984 - Gloucester Council approves
a City Centre concept for the area at Blair and Ogilvie Road.
1984 - Ontario government extends separate school funding to Grade 13. Grade 11 added in September 1985, Grade 12 in September 1986 and Grade 13 in September 1987 [Ottawa Citizen, April 15, 1986 p.C3].
1984 - Development of 155 acre
Ottawa Business Park commences with extension of St. Laurent Boulevard
south of Walkley Road. [Ottawa Citizen, July 4, 1987 p.E7]
1984 - (January 14 2 p.m.) Cyrville community
centre opens, 4355 Halmont Drive. [Ottawa Citizen, January 13, 1984 p.67] View News Story.
1984 - (June) Innes Road water
tower put into service.
1984 - (June 8) Ronald McDonald House opens next to the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO). It provides inexpensive accommodation for out of town families whose children are being treated at CHEO [Ottawa Citizen, June 9, 1984 p.81].
1984 - (June 18) North Gloucester Branch of Public Library opens at 2036 Ogilvie Road. The former location in the Earl Armstrong Arena closed on May 15, 1984. [Ottawa Citizen, June 5, 1984 p.19] View News Story.
1984 - (July 3) Mayor Fred G.
Barrett dies in office [Ottawa Citizen, July 3, 1984 p.1] View News Story. Leitrim Arena renamed in his honour on August 16, 1984. [Ottawa Citizen, August 16, 1984 p.49] Read News Story.
1984 - CPR abandons old Bytown
and Prescott Railway between Ellwood (near Walkley Road) and Bank
Street.
1984 - (October 15) Gloucester
Council approves Ward System for electing city councillors. [Ottawa
Citizen, Oct. 15, 1984 pB2. View News Story & Nov. 14, 1984 p.C2 View News Story ]
1984 - Bearbrook soccer fields
renamed Hornet's Nest Park.
1985 - (January 1) Vanier Police Department merged with the Ottawa Police Department. [Ottawa Citizen, December 29, 1984 p.A8] View News Story.
1985 - (March 28) Ontario Municipal Board rules that a 4 ward system be adopted for future municipal elections. The 4 wards are Gloucester North (3 aldermen to be elected) (Beacon Hill, Rothwell Heights, Cardinal Heights, Carson Grove, Cyrville, Pineview), Gloucester Centre (1 alderman to be elected) (Blackburn Hamlet), Gloucester East (2 aldermen to be elected) (Orléans), and Gloucester South (2 alderman to be elected) (everything south of the former Canadian Pacific Railway Line) [Ottawa Citizen, March 29, 1985 p.C1] View News Story.
1985 - (July 1) Vanier Fire Department closes with service in Vanier offered by the Ottawa Fire Department. [Ottawa Citizen, August 23, 1985 p.C3] View News Story.
1985 - (August 14) Regional development fees phased in. Full rates begin January 1, 1987 amounting to $3,090 for single family and semi-detached homes, $2,250 for row houses and $1,500 for apartment and condominium units [Ottawa Citizen, August 15, 1985 p.B1].
1985 - (October 25) Hunt Club
Road bridge (Michael J. E. Sheflin Bridge) opens. [Ottawa Citizen,
October 28, 1985 p.C3]
1985 - (June 1) Vanier City Hall relocated
to 300 avenue Pères-Blancs in the Richelieu Centre on the former site
of the White Fathers Seminary. [Ottawa Citizen, February 20, 1985 p.C3] View News Story.
1986 - (July 2) Hope cemetery
at Leitrim approved.
1986 - (August) Gloucester Chamber of Commerce
established. [Ottawa Citizen, August 13, 1987 p.C10] View News Story.
1986 - CPR abandons short line
railway between Hurdman's Bridge and Blackburn and beyond. VIA Rail
retains rights to convert this line into a high speed rail link to
Montreal.
1986 - (Summer) Historic Hurdman's Bridge
demolished [Ottawa Citizen, March 12, 1986 p.B3, April 14, 1986 p.C19]. View News Story.
1986 - Orléans Star commences publication.
1986 - Riverside Drive and Alta Vista Drive re-aligned south of the Queensway. Alta Vista Drive no longer has a direct connection to the Queensway. Riverside Drive is also twinned between Smyth Road and Industrial Avenue [Ottawa Citizen, September 3, 1986 p.C9]. View News Story.
1986 - Hunt Club Road extended east to Conroy Road [Ottawa Citizen, November 13, 1986 p.6].
1987 - Telesat Canada and the
National Sport and Fitness Administration Centre both open headquarters
in the Gloucester City Centre.
1987 - (January 5) New City Hall opens at
1400 Blair Place. [Ottawa Citizen, January 9, 1987 p.C2] View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, January 10, 1987 p.E8] View News Story.
1987 - (April 2) Official opening of Fire Station #13 (now #56) at 275 Coventry Road [Ottawa Citizen, March 28, 1987 p.E15] View News Story.
1987 - (April 14 -18) The Air Canada Cup, the National Midget AAA Hockey Championship tournement is hosted by the Gloucester Rangers at the Earl Armstrong Arena. The championship game had the Riverains de Richelieu win 6 to 2 over the Notre Dame Hounds. The final game was televised on CTV [Ottawa Citizen, April 14, 1987 p.D2, April 15, 1987 p.D2, April 16, 1987, p.E3, April 17, 1987 p.F3, April 20, 1987 p.B5].
1987 - (May 20) New Minto Skating Club facility officially opened on Lancaster Road. The clubs longstanding rink located on Waller Street near Laurier Avenue East was destroyed by fire on November 3, 1949. It was replaced by an arena located on Henderson Avenue north of Mann Avenue which opened on January 29, 1952. It was sold to the University of Ottawa in 1959. Between 1959 and 1987, the club rented various rinks. [Ottawa Citizen, January 30, 1952 p.19, May 8, 1987 p.B1]
1987 - (June 28) Bus Route 144 opens Greenboro busway between Cahill Drive to Lorry Greenberg Drive next to the Greenboro Community Centre [Ottawa Citizen, June 27, 1987 p.F5] View news clipping
1987 - (November 17) Transitway between Hurdman Station and St. Laurent Shopping Centre opens. [Ottawa Citizen, November 17, 1987 p.C1]
1987 - (November 21) First Gloucester Santa Claus Parade held on St. Joseph Boulevard in Orléans. The original sponsors were the Gloucester Chamber of Commerce and the Gloucester and Cumberland Fire Fighters Association. It was later renamed the Orléans Santa Claus Parade of Light. [Ottawa Citizen, November 20, 1987 p.B3]
1987 - (December 8) New Ottawa Fire Station Number 6 officially opened at Beechwood and Marquette [Ottawa Citizen, December 8, 1987 p.C2].
1988 - (May 16) Gloucester South Community Services Centre officially named, which used to be the Gloucester City Hall. The Centre included the Gloucester South 50's Seniors Club, Gloucester Centre for Community Services, Gloucester Family Day Care and the Gloucester Historical Society. The historical society was to move in the summer of 1988 from its preious location at the former Johnston's Corners Public School on Rideau Road. [Ottawa Citizen, May 20, 1988 p.C2] View News Story.
1988 - (June
13) Rockcliffe Parkway (formerly known as the Eastern Driveway) opens
between Mile Circle and St. Joseph Boulevard. [Ottawa Citizen,
June 14, 1988 p.C1]
1988 - (June
13) Aviation Parkway (formerly known as the Eastern Parkway) opens
between Montreal Road and Rockcliffe Parkway. [Ottawa Citizen,
June 14, 1988 p.C1]
1988 - (June 17) National
Museum of Aviation opens on former site of Rockcliffe Airport. [Ottawa
Citizen, June 14, 1988 p.C1]
1988 - (January 15) Gloucester
"Splash" Wave Pool, the first indoor wave pool in Eastern Canada
opens. This was formerly Centennial Pool. [Ottawa Citizen, April 2, 1988 p.A14]
1988 - Handcrafted "Gold Chain
of Office" was accepted by the Mayor from the Gloucester Chamber of
Commerce
1988 - Gloucester Resident Elizabeth
Manley wins Silver Medal in Ladies' Figure Skating at Olympics in
Calgary, Alta.
1988 - Hope Roman Catholic cemetery
opens on Bank Street at Leitrim.
1988 - (November 9) Gloucester Centre opens
in City Centre (Ogilvie and Blair Road). The Loblaws store opened October 24th [Ottawa Citizen, October 21, 1988 p.D7, November 9, 1988 p.C9]
1988 - (January) Gloucester Senior Adults Centre opens at Earl Armstrong Arena. [Ottawa Citizen, January 13, 1988 p.C2]
1988 - (June 22) 911 emergency
telephone is inaugerated in Gloucester. [Ottawa Citizen,
June 22, 1988 p.B1]
1988 - (November 9) Gloucester 5 Cinemas open
at Gloucester Centre. It closed in 2001 following the opening of the
neighbouring Silver City complex.[Ottawa Citizen, October 22, 1988 p.C1]
1989 - (February 6) Gloucester Council approves 29.4% tax increase.[Ottawa Citizen, February 7, 1989 p. C1] View News Story.
1989 - (February 20) Gloucester Museum opens.[Ottawa Citizen, February 16, 1989 p. B2] View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, February 19, 1989 p.D2] View News Story.
1989 - (April 9) Gloucester Rangers (1973s) hockey club hosts & wins the All-Ontario Major Bantam AAA Championship - The Canadian Tire Cup - at the Earl Armstrong Arena. [Ottawa Citizen, April 10, 1989 p. E5]
1989 - (June 10 10 a.m.) Auction Sale at Boyd's Hotel, Carlsbad Springs. The hotel was slated to be demolished soon afterward.[Ottawa Citizen, June 8, 1989 p.B20]. View News Story.
1989 - (June 23) Blair Transitway Station opens as well as the Transitway between St. Laurent Shopping Centre and Blair Road. Originally named Gloucester Centre Station. [Ottawa Citizen, June 23, 1989 p.C3]
1990 - La Cité Collégiale,
Ottawa's french language college, opens on St. Laurent Blvd near Conroy
Road. Its permanent campus opens in 1995 on the Aviation Parkway.
1990 - (October 16 3 p.m.) Blackburn Hamlet Bypass opens. [Ottawa Citizen, October 15, 1990 p.E2] View News Story.
1991 - Gloucester Pottery School
founded at the Cyrville Community Centre. It relocated to the Shenkman
Arts Centre in June 2009. School
History.
1991 - (January 1) Pineview Golf
Course ceases to be a membership golf course and becomes a 'pay as
you go' public course. [Gloucester Leader, November 1990,
p.4]
1991 - (April 7)
Gloucester Rangers (1975s) hockey club wins the All-Ontario Major Bantam AAA Championship - The Canadian Tire Cup. [Ottawa Citizen, April 8, 1991 p.D9]
1991 - (June 9) Gloucester High School alumnus and Cairine Wilson Secondary School alumnus and former Blackburn Hamlet resident Aaron Ward is selected fifth overall in the 1991 NHL draft by the Winnipeg Jets. Aaron played for the Detroit Red Wings from 1993 to 2001, the Carolina Hurricanes from 2001 to 2006, the New York Rangers from 2006 to 2007, the Boston Bruins from 2007 to 2009, the Carolina Hurricanes from 2009 to 2010 and the Anaheim Ducks in 2010. Following his retirement from the NHL, he became a hockey analyst on TSN. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Ward_(ice_hockey)
1991 - (July 21) 1st Annual Lebanese
festival takes place while St. Elias Church was still under construction
across from Mooney's Bay.
1991 - (October 20) Blackburn Hamlet Fire and Training Station opens. [Ottawa Citizen, October 21, 1991 p.C2] View News Story.
1991 - (November 2, 2 pm) The newly twinned Walkley Arena is officially named the Jim (James A.) Durrell Recreation Complex. Jim Durrell was the former Mayor of Ottawa and the new Ottawa Senators president. One of the ice pads was also officially named for Ottawa native Jim Peplinski, who had a 10 year career with the NHL Calgary Flames, retiring in 1990. The arena had re-opened in September 1991 with two ice rinks. [Ottawa Citizen, October 30, 1991 p.E2]. Read News Story.
1992 - Regional Road 8 renamed Mitch Owens Road to honour the former Gloucester mayor and councilor after a year long naming battle with Osgoode Township. [Ottawa Citizen, September 13, 1992 p.A8]
1992 - (May) Edward D. Jones (Gloucester South) Public LIbrary relocates to 2950 Bank Street from 2721 Bank Street. [Ottawa Citizen, May 8, 1992 p.A8] View News Story.
1992 - (June 7) Sunday shopping becomes fully legal. [Ottawa Citizen, June 8, 1992 p.A1]
1993 - Ottawa International Airport
renamed Ottawa MacDonald-Cartier International Airport.
1993 - A major expansion of Ottawa
City Hall on Green Island is completed. It was designed by Moshe Safdie.
City Hall relocates to the former Regional Headquarters on Laurier
Avenue upon amalgamation in 2001, and the old building is sold to
the federal government.
1993 - (April 17) Ottawa Baseball Stadium
opens at the corner of the Vanier Parkway and Coventry Road. The official opening of the stadium was on May 28, 1993. The Ottawa
Lynx of the International League played there until 2007. The Ottawa
Rapids of the Can-Am League played there in 2008, which was to be
renamed the Ottawa Voyageurs for 2009 but the new team never played.
Starting in 2010, the Ottawa Fat Cats played in the Intercounty Baseball
League. The Lynx were the triple A affiliate of the Montreal Expos
during the early years and the Baltimore Orioles in the last seasons. In 2022, it was known as RCGT Park.[Ottawa Citizen, April 18, 1993 p.B1, B2] View News Story. View News Story B2. [Ottawa Citizen, May 29, 1993 p.G3] View News Story.
1993 - Gloucester High School alumnus and comedian Norm MacDonald joins Saturday Night Live. He remains part of the cast until early 1998. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_Macdonald
1993 - (June 26) Cairine Wilson Secondary School & Colonel By alumnus, and former Orléans resident, Steve Washburn is selected 78th overall in the NHL entry draft by the Florida Panthers.[Ottawa Citizen, June 27, 1993 p.C3]. He played for the Panthers from 1995 to 1998, the Vancouver Canucks in 1999, and the Philadelphia Flyers from 1999 to 2001. Washburn was a standout with the Ottawa 67s of the OHL from 1991 to 1995, and played Gloucester Rangers Jr A in 1990-91. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Washburn
1993 - (June 26) Children's Aid Society of Ottawa opens its new administration building at 1602 Telesat Court. It had previously been at 1370 Bank Street. [Ottawa Citizen, June 25, 1993 p.B5] View News Story.
1993 - (November 8) Lester Road
extension to airport opens. [Ottawa Citizen, November 4, 1993 p.D1] View News Story. The official opening took place on November 19th [Ottawa Citizen, November 18, 1993, p.A15] View News Story.
1993 - (November 28) $2.5 million fire at A.G.I. McNaughton Building, Montreal Road National Research Council campus. [Ottawa Citizen, November 4, 1993 p.B1] View News Story.
1994 - Military presence at Rockcliffe
is terminated.
1994 - The Ontario Geographic Names Board officially decides that Orléans
is to be spelt with an accute accent.
1994 - (September) Henry Munro Middle School, Colonel By Secondary School. Cairine Wilson Secondary School and Alqonquin College alumnus and comedian Tom Green starts the Tom Green Show on Rogers Cable 22, and in 1997 on The Comedy Channel and on MTV in January 1999. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Green
1995 - Uplands military facility
decommissioned but the VIP transport unit of No. 412 Squadron continues
to use airport.
1995 - Ottawa, Gloucester and
Nepean Police amalgamated as Ottawa-Carleton Regional Police Service.
This was renamed as Ottawa Police Service in 2001.
1995 - CSIS (Canadian Security
Intelligence Service) opens headquarters on Ogilvie Road. [Ottawa Citizen, September 23, 1995 p.A2] View News Story.
1995 - Cairine Wilson Secondary School alumnus and former Orléans resident, Marc Savard is selected 91st in the NHL entry draft by the New York Rangers. He played for the Rangers from 1997 to 1999, the Calgary Flames from 1999 to 2002, the Atlanta Thrashers from 2002 to 2006, and the Boston Bruins from 2006 to 2011. His NHL career ended prematurely due to concussion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Savard
1995 - (February 20) Gloucester North Lions Club chartered. The Charter President was
Lion Ken Macdonald.
1995 - (September 2) Greenboro busway between Cahill Drive and Lorry Greenberg Drive is closed.
1995 - (September 3) Greenboro transit
station opens along with the Southeast Transitway from Billings Bridge to Hunt Club Road [Ottawa Citizen, September 2, 1995 p.C2] View news clipping. [Ottawa Citizen, September 3, 1995 p.A8] View News Story.
1995 - (October 21) The Perley and Rideau Veterans Health Centre opens for patients on Russell Road with the first residets from the Rideau Veterans Home. Residents from the Perley Hospital were transferred on March 23 and 24, 1996. The Rideau Veterans Home relocated from Smyth Road. The Perley, originally known as the Perley Home for the Incurables, was originally located in the former home built by William Perley on Wellington Street opposite from the Nicholas Sparks house. It opened on January 21, 1898 and the name honours the Right Honourable Sir George Halsey Perley, son of William Perley, who allowed the use of his father's home for this purpose after William's death. The home relocated to the corner of Aylmer Avenue and Barton Street in June 1915. The cornerstone had been laid by Sir Robert Borden on June 26, 1914. [Ottawa Citizen, September 3, 1995 p.B7, Ottawa Citizen, January 28, 1956 p.26, Ottawa Citizen, October 22, 1995 p.A7 View News Story. Ottawa Citizen, March 24, 1996 p.A1, A3 View News Story p.A1 View News Story p.A3]
1996 - South Keys Shopping Centre opens.
1996 - (April) The Orléans branch of the Gloucester Public Library relocates to 1705 Orléans Boulevard from 1490 Youville Drive.
1996 - (June) New Leitrim Fire Station 3 officially opened replacing the 1962 station at the same location (now Ottawa Fire Station 32). View Plaque
1996 - (June 11) Suspected tornado touches down at the former site of the Queensway Drive-In causing a trailer to flip several times [Ottawa Citizen, June 12, 1996 p.C8].
1996 - (June 12) Airport Parkway corridor transferred from National Capital Commission to the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton. The Airport Parkway is no longer a federal parkway [Land Records].
1996 - (November 2) Southeast Transitway opens between Riverside Hospital and Billings Bridge [Ottawa Citizen, November 3, 1996 p.4].
1997 - (January 2) Gloucester City Hall relocates
to 1595 Telesat Road. This was its final location. [Ottawa Citizen, December 23, 1996 p.C2] View News Story.
1997 - (June 10) Gloucester Fair relocates
to Rideau-Carleton Raceway on Albion Road. [Ottawa Citizen, June 3, 1997 p.D6] View News Story.
1997 - (December 19) South Keys cinemas open
at South Keys Shopping Centre, Bank Street.[Ottawa Citizen, November 28, 1997 p.E1]
1998 - Gloucester High School and Carleton University alumnus James Duthie joins TSN after being a sports reporter on CJOH (CTV Ottawa). He became the host of the 'NHL on TSN'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Duthie_(sportscaster)
1998 - (January 1) Highway 17
and 31 cease to be provincial highways. Highway 17 east of 'the split'
becomes Regional Road 174 while Highway 31 briefly becomes Regional
Road 85 before being renumbered more appropriately Regional Road 31.
Regional Road 174 has become a bit of a political football as a result
of suggestions that it be widened as far east as Rockland in the 2007
provincial election and because of ongoing maintenance problems that
are more expensive than municipal budgets allow.
1998 - (January 5th to 9th) Great
Ice Storm causes widespread blackouts in Eastern Ontario and Southern
Quebec. Hydro towers collapse near Navan Road and Edwards, the latter
being an area that experienced power outages lasting several days.
Armed Forces called in to assist in repairs.
1998 - (January 1) Carleton Board of Education and Ottawa Board of Education almagamated into the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board. [Ottawa Citizen, November 15, 1997 p.B1 and p.B2] View News Story. View News Story B2.
1998 - (March) Gloucester City Council decrees that only Gloucester licensed taxis may pick up fares at MacDonald-Cartier International Airport [Ottawa Citizen, June 19, 1999 p.C1 Read news clipping, p.C2 Read news clipping ].
1998 - (April 1) Civic, General and Riverside Hospitals amalgamate as Ottawa Hospital. [Ottawa Citizen, April 6, 1998 p.A10] View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, April 2, 1999 p.D16] View News Story.
1999 - CPR abandons old Bytown
and Prescott Railway between Leitrim Road and Manotick Station and
beyond.
1999 - City of Gloucester becomes
sole owner of Pineview Golf Course.
1999 - Hunt Club Road access ramps to Airport Parkway open.
1999 - (February 24) Tudor Hall, originally Pineland burns down. A new building has been built [Ottawa Citizen, February 25, 1999 p.C3].
1999 - (May 19) Silver City cinemas
open on City Park Drive. [Ottawa Citizen, May 14, 1999 p.B3]
2000 - (January 1) Management of the Gloucester Museum transferred from the Gloucester Historical Society to the City of Gloucester.
2000 - (February 16) Slots open at Rideau-Carleton
Raceway.[Ottawa Citizen, February 17, 2000 p.F1] View News Story.
2000 - (November 1) Gloucester Hydro amalgamated
with Hydro Ottawa. [Ottawa Citizen, August 29, 2000 p.B3] View News Story.
2001 - (January 1) City of Gloucester
amalgamated with the City of Ottawa. [Ottawa Citizen, December 23, 2000 p.D3] View News Story.
2001 - (January 1) Gloucester Professional Fire Fighters Association Local 1484 merged with Ottawa Professional Fire Fighters Association Local 162, an affiliate of the International Association of Fire Fighters.
2001 - (July 14) Julie Boileau, 15, electrocuted when a hot air balloon is blown into power lines on Leitrim Road east of Bank Street. [Ottawa Citizen, July 15, 2001 p.A8]
2001 - (October 15 2 p.m.) O-Train opens
between Greenboro (formerly Ellwood) and Bayview via Carleton University.
This uses the rail line opened in 1871. [Ottawa Citizen, October 15, 2001 p.B1 View News Story p.B2 View News Story. p.B4 View News Story]
2001 - (December 12) Rideau Tennis Club clubhouse destroyed by fire. [Ottawa Citizen, December 13, 2001 p.C1]
2002 - (December) Albion Road
is closed to through traffic at Lester Road amidst ongoing controversy.
The intersection was re-opened on November 28, 2007.
2003 - (June 7) O-Train closed for installation of welded rail. [Ottawa Citizen, June 1, 2003 p.A9] View News Story. Re-opening delayed until June 30th [Ottawa Citizen, June 21, 2003 p.C2] View News Story. [Ottawa Citizen, July 1, 2003 p.D4] View News Story.
2003 - (August 14 4:11 p.m.) Major power failure affects Ontario and much of the northeast of the United States. [Ottawa Citizen, August 15, 2003 p.A1 View News Story, p.A2 View News Story, p.A3 View News Story, p.A4 View News Story, p.A5 View News Story, p.A6 View News Story, p.A7 View News Story, p.A8 View News Story, p.A9 View News Story, p.A10 View News Story, p.A11 View News Story, p.A12 View News Story, p.A13 View News Story, p.A14 View News Story]
2003 - (October 12) New terminal
opens at MacDonald-Cartier International Airport, formerly known as
Uplands Airport. [Ottawa Citizen, October 13, 2003 p.B5]
2004 - (July 4) Most of McArthur Shopping Plaza is destroyed by fire. Arson suspected. [Ottawa Citizen, July 5, 2004 p.D1, D2]. Read News Clipping D1. Read News Clipping D2. [Ottawa Citizen, July 6, 2004 p.B1, B5] Read News Clipping B1. Read News Clipping B5 [Ottawa Citizen, July 7, 2004 p.B3] Read News Clipping. [Ottawa Citizen, July 10, 2004 p.B2] Read News Clipping. [Ottawa Citizen, July 13, 2004 p.C1, C2] Read News Clipping C1. Read News Clipping C2. [Ottawa Citizen, August 12, 2004 p.D7] Read News Clipping.
2004 - St. Jerome Catholic Elementary School opens in Riverside South. [Ottawa Citizen, December 26, 2004, p.C4].
2004 - (September 5) O-Train service upgraded from 20 minute to 15 minute frequency. [Ottawa Citizen, September 4, 2004, p.E10] View News Story.
2004 - (October) Superdome (originally named Thunderdome) opens as an indoor sports field facility on Bearbrook Road in Blackburn Hamlet. It is the home of the Gloucester Soccer Association. Superdome was created as a result of a Public-Private Partnership between the City of Ottawa and Thunderbird Management Services Inc. http://ottawa.ca/en/business/doing-business-city/public-private-partnerships-p3s/superdome
2004 - Gloucester Museum closes.
[Ottawa This Week - South Edition May 26, 2011 p.11][Ottawa Citizen, July 17, 2004 p.E4] View News Story 1. View News Story 2.
2005 - Gloucester Chamber of Commerce
renamed Eastern Ottawa Chamber of Commerce. [Ottawa Citizen, November 2, 2005 p.D2] View News Story.
2005 - The Gloucester Rangers Junior A hockey team was renamed the Orléans Blues for the 2005-2006 season with new ownership [Ottawa Citizen, May 26, 2005 p.C4 View News Story].
2006 - Innes Road widened east of Orléans Boulevard. Construction had begun in 2005 [Ottawa Citizen, April 29, 2007 p.A7].
2006 - (March 30) 10 digit telephone dialing inaugerated. It became mandatory on October 21, 2006 [Ottawa Citizen, March 30, 2006 p.D1 View News Story p.D7 View News Story]. [Ottawa Citizen, June 11, 2006 p.A2] View News Story.
2006 - (April 21) Roger's House opens, a pediatric palliative care facility located adjacent to the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario. It was named in honour of former Ottawa Senators assistant coach, Roger Nielson [Ottawa Citizen, April 22, 2006 p.E1 View News Story p.E4 View News Story].
2006 - (August 23) Ottawa Council passed a resolution to rename the Orléans Recreation Complex to Bob MacQuarrie Recreation Complex in recognition of his service to Gloucester and Orléans.
2006 - (October 11) Vanier Museopark
opens at the former Vanier City Hall, 300 des Pères Blancs Avenue. [Ottawa Citizen, October 11, 2026 p.B3] View News Story.
2006 - With considerable controversy
because of a Avian flu scare, the "Royal" Swans spend the
entire summer in captivity at the Leitrim swan house. They were again
released on the Rideau River in 2007. [Ottawa Citizen, June 3, 2006 p.A1 View News Story, p.A14 View News Story]
2006 - (June 7) Greenboro District
Library opens replacing the Blossom Park Library.[Ottawa Citizen, July 1, 2006 p.E7] View News Story including picture.
2007 - (June 28) Rideau Canal
is announced as an UNESCO World Heritage Site. [http://www.rideau-info.com/canal/notice-worldheritage.html]. [Ottawa Citizen, June 29, 2007 p.F2] View News Story.
2008 -The Orléans Blues was unable to negotiate the use of the Bob MacQuarrie Recreation Complex, and continued to play out of the Earl Armstrong Arena. With 2008 being the 40th anniversary of the Gloucester Rangers, it was decided to return to that name for the 2008-2009 season. [Ottawa Citizen, November 14, 2008 p.B5 View News Story].
2008 - (April 1) Champlain Local
Health Integration Network (LHIN) founded and located in Gloucester
[EMC - Ottawa South, Feb. 24, 2011 p.1].
2008 - (September 24) Richard
and Annette Bloch Cancer Survivors Park opens at Alta Vista Drive
and Industrial Avenue.
2008 - (November) Rotary
Club of Orléans chartered.
2008 - First ash trees killed
by Emerald bark beetle in the vicinity of St. Laurent Blvd. and Ogilvie
Road. This imported pest is expected to eliminate all ash trees in
the Ottawa area over the next 10 years. [Ottawa Citizen, July 26, 2008 p.D7] View News Story.
2009 - (May) Ottawa Rotary Home
opens at Leitrim. This is a respite facility for those with disabilities
and under 21.
2009 - (July 31) The former Canadian
Forces Base Rockcliffe (RCAF Station Rockcliffe) is closed to the
public and fenced off.
2009 - (September) The Eastern Ottawa
Chamber of Commerce, originally the Gloucester Chamber of Commerce
merges with the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce.
2009 - (December 18) Orléans Empire
theatres open on Innes Road. [Orléans Star - Nov. 30, 2009]
The Centrum Orléans cinemas had closed the previous day. [Orléans
Star - Dec. 16, 2009]
2010 - (November) The first double
lane traffic circle in Ottawa opens at St. Joseph Blvd. and Jeanne
d'Arc in Orléans.
2011 - (May) Canada Lands Company
purchases former Canadian Forces Base Rockliffe from the Department
of National Defence for future redevelopment. [Ottawa Citizen,
May 26, 2011, Page C2]
2011 - (November) The Cancer Survivorship
Centre at Maplesoft House opens on Alta Vista Drive adjacent to the
Cancer Survivors Park. It offers counceling and other services to
those who have been diagnosed with Cancer. [EMC Ottawa South,
November 10, 2011, Page 1]
2011 - (December 20) New Cyrville Road bridge over Highway 417 opens. [Orléans Star, December 19, 2011]
2011 - (December 27) Capital Exhibition
(CE) Centre hosts its first event and is located on Uplands Drive
near MacDonald-Cartier International Airport.
2012 - (August 24) Harry Allen Bridge officially named. Located on St.
Joseph Boulevard where it crosses Green's Creek, this honours the
former Gloucester mayor.
2012 - (November 1) CE Centre renamed the Ernst & Young Centre on Uplands Drive [Ottawa Citizen, November 2, 2012 p.F1].
2013 - (May 9) Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health opens at 299 Montreal Road in Vanier. The building was designed by Douglas Cardinal.
2013 - (May 27) Herongate Mall demolition begins and is completed with the exception of cleanup on July 26. The former Zellers Store was demolished in 2012.
2013 - (August 21) Braddish Billings plaque unveiled in Linda Thom Park at the north end of Billings Bridge. It commemorated the 200th anniversary of his arrival as first permanent settler of Gloucester Township.
2013 - (October 19) John Innes plaque unveiled at the former township hall at Leitrim. Mr. Innes was Gloucester Reeve from 1931 to 1939 and had also served as Carleton Country Warden. This plaque replaced a 1940 cairn formerly located at the intersection of Walkley Road and Russell Road.
2013 - (October 20) The Société franco-ontarienne du patrimoine et de l'histoire d'Orléans releases the book titled "Orléans 1950-1960 Saint Joseph Boulevard Remembers" with the intention of installing 26 plaques in 2014 on Saint Joseph Boulevard to remember 32 different historic locations.
2014 - (March 18) The arrival of an air transport plane accompanied by two fighter jets at MacDonald-Cartier International Airport represented the return of the final military personnel from Afganistan conflict.
2014 - (April 14) Gloucester Fair renamed The Capital Fair and expanded to a 10 day event in August at Rideau-Carleton Raceway. http://www.gloucesterfair.ca/about.html
2014 - (June 7) Sawmill Creek Cycling Path opens.http://ottawa.ca/en/news/sawmill-creek-pedestrian-and-cycling-pathway-opens-saturday
2014 - (July 12 1:00 p.m.) Strandherd-Armstrong Bridge officially opened connecting Riverside South and Barrhaven.
2014 - (August 5) Richcraft Sensplex opens on Shefford Road in Beacon Hill which includes the original J.B. Potvin Arena.
2014 - (August 21 9:00 a.m.) Hunt Club Road interchange and extension between Hawthorne Road to Highway 417 opens.
2014 - (September 6) Rockcliffe Parkway renamed the Georges-Etienne Cartier Parkway on the 200th anniversary of his birth. [Ottawa Citizen, September 8, 2014 p.A3].
2014 - (September 11, 3:00 p.m.) Museum of Science and Technology evacuated and closed because of unacceptable air quality [Ottawa Citizen, September 12, 2014 p.A1 View News Story, p.A9 View News Story.]. On November 18th, it was decided that the building would require a major reconstruction. [Ottawa Citizen, December 3, 2014 p.A1 View News Story p.A6 View News Story ].
2014 - (September) Confederation and Trillium O-Train lines receive their names. [Ottawa Citizen, September 11, 2014 p.A4] View News Story.
2014 - (November 29) South Keys (Airport Parkway) pedestrian bridge opens [Ottawa Citizen, December 1, 2014 p.A4] View News Story.
2015 - (February 9) The Coventry Pedestrian and Cycling Bridge opens over the Queensway connecting the Baseball park and the Eastern Transitway [Ottawa Citizen, February 10, 2015 p.A4]. View News Story.
2015 - (June 12) First track laid for Confederation LRT Line at Belfast Maintenance Yard. [Ottawa Citizen, June 13, 2015 p.A3] View News Story.
2015 - (March 2) Trillium O-Train line re-opens with increased frequency but a switch problem arises on the first day of service. The official launch time was 9:30 a.m. [Ottawa Citizen, March 3, 2015 p.A3] View News Story [Ottawa Citizen, March 4, 2015 p.A1 View News Story, p.A6 View News Story.]
2015 - (June 28) Eastern Transitway closes for conversion to LRT [Ottawa Citizen, June 27, 2015 p.A4] View News Story.
2015 - (December 4) Adawe Pedestrian Bridge opens between Donald Street in Overbrook and Somerset Street East in Sandy Hill. [Ottawa Citizen, December 5, 2015 p.A4] View News Story.
2015 - (December 20) Transitway permanently closed between Hurdman and Lees Station for bridge repairs and LRT construction.
2016 - (May 11) The pedestrian bridge across the Queensway at the baseball park is named the Max Keeping Bridge for the late CTV Ottawa News Anchor and community activist. The bridge was originally known as the Coventry Pedestrian and Cycling Bridge [Ottawa Citizen, May 12, 2016 p.A2]. View News Story.
2017 - Following another change of ownership, the Gloucester Rangers relocated to Rockland and was renamed as the Rockland Nationals for the 2017-2018 season. Team history.
2017 - (Summer) A new specially designed playground is completed at Mooney's Bay. The $2M project was half paid for by by Sinking Ship Entertainment for a TVOntario series [Ottawa Citizen, June 23, 2017 p.A1].
2017 - (August 21) Rideau Lawn Tennis Club closes and is purchased by the Rideau Sports Centre.
2017 - (November 17) A completely rebuilt Museum of Science and Technology re-opens on St. Laurent Boulevard [Ottawa Citizen, November 16, 2017 p.A3] View News Story.
2018 - (September 21 approx. 6 p.m.) A tornado follows a path along the north side of the Hunt Club, South Keys and Greenboro neighbourhoods causing considerable damage. The tornado first touched down in the Bruce Pit/Arlington Woods part of Nepean. There were a total of 6 tornados that touched down in the greater Ottawa area that day.
2019 - (June 2) EF-0 or EF-1 tornado strikes Orléans on a line just north of Highway 174 starting near Jeanne d'Arc boulevard running east then vearing slightly north to skirt the south side of Petrie Island [Ottawa Citizen, June 4, 2019 p.A3].
2019 - (September 14) Confederation Line LRT opens for service. The trains run from Tunney's Pasture to Blair Stations via downtown and Hurdman station.
2019 - (October 6) Bus service running parallel to the Confederation Line LRT is cancelled.
2019 - (November 8) The South Keys (Airport Parkway) Pedestrian Bridge is renamed the Juno Beach Memorial Bridge in honour of Canada's involvement in the D-Day invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944.
2020 - (March 11) COVID-19 pandemic declared by World Health Organization. First case found in Ottawa.
2020 - (May 3) O-Train Line 2 closes for major upgrade. [Ottawa Citizen, May 2, 2020 p.A5] View News Story.
2020 - (September 11) Ottawa Athletic Club closes.
2021 - (October 4) Orléans Health Hub officially opened on Mer Bleue Road at Brian Coburn Boulevard. The facility opened in June [Ottawa Citizen, October 5, 2021 p.A7].
2022 - (May 21) Derecho storm with the strength of an EF tornado affects Ottawa area. Some of the worst affected Gloucester locations included the Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club, Blossom Park south of Hunt Club Road, the Conroy Road. [Ottawa Citzen, May 24, 2022 p.A1 View News Story, p.A2 View News Story, p.A3 View News Story, p.A4 View News Story, p.A7 View News Story, p.A9 View News Story]
2023 - (August 1) The NCC River House opens as a renovation of the century old Ottawa New Edinburgh Canoe Clubog Park (Conroy Pit), Pinegrove (Davidson Side Road and Hawthorne Road, and Russell Road just west of Carlsbad Springs clubhouse. [Ottawa Citizen, August 1, 2023 p.A2] View News Story.
2024 - (March 19) Rideau River pedestrian bridge opens at Carleton University. The bridge was not supposed to be open for public use and reclosed the same day. The official opening took place on June 15, 2024 at 11 a.m. View News Story.
2024 - (October 25) Grace Johnston History Room at 4550 Bank Street, the office of the Gloucester Historical Society was was officially closed by the City of Ottawa. The contents were removed between November 21st and 28th to the City of Ottawa Archives.
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Index
Numbers A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
|
|
| Q |
1941 |
| #1 Station HMCS Bytown |
1943 |
| 10 Digit telephone dialing |
2006 |
| 24 Sussex Drive |
1868, 1943 |
| 824 telephone exchange |
1966 |
| 911 |
1988 |
|
| Abbott, Captain Robert |
1980 |
| Aboriginals |
1793 |
| Adams, Bryan |
1970 |
| Adawe Pedestrian Bridge |
2015 |
| Aerial photography |
1920 |
| A.G.I. McNaughton Building |
1993 |
| Ahearn, Thomas |
1893 |
| Ahearn & Soper Company Ltd. |
1959 |
| Air Canada Cup, The |
1987 |
| Air Force Day |
1947 |
| Air Raid Precautions (ARP) |
1941 , 1943 , 1944 |
| Air Raid sirens |
1941 |
| Air shows |
1934 |
| Airport Drive-In |
1970 |
| Airport Parkway |
1972 , 1996 1999 |
| Airport Parkway Pedestrian Bridge |
2014 , 2019 |
| Airports |
1919, 1920, 1927, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1951, 1954, 1959, 1964, 1993, 1995, 2003 |
| Afganistan |
2014 |
| Akwasasne Mohawk tribe |
1783 |
| Aladdin Bowling Lanes |
1961 |
| Aladdin Drive-In Theatre |
1951 |
| Albion Road |
1951, 1997, 2002 |
| Algonquin College |
1994 |
| Algonquian tribes |
1783 |
| All-Ontario Major Bantam AAA Championship (hockey) |
1989 , 1991 |
| Allan Cup |
1949 |
| Allen, Harry |
2012 |
| Allotment gardens |
1971, 19731981 |
| Alta Vista bus route |
1953 , 1960 |
| Alta Vista Drive |
1940, 1941, 1948, 1950, 1966, 1969, 1986, also see Churchill
Avenue |
| Alta Vista fire hall |
1958 |
| Alta Vista Queensway Interchange |
1959 |
| Alta Vista Library |
1976 |
| Alta Vista water tower |
1953 |
| Amalgamation |
2001 |
| American Ambassador's Residence (Lornado) |
1935 |
| American Revolution |
1783 |
| Anderson, James Ward |
1941 |
| Anderson Road |
1981 |
| Annexation |
1887, 1889, 1944, 1947, 1949, 1950 |
| Apostolic Nunciature |
1838 |
| Archibald, Captain Thomas |
1950 |
| Arenas |
1963, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1984, 1991, 2014 |
| Armour, Honourable Norman |
1935 |
| Army |
1939 |
| Arundel Avenue |
1948 |
| Arts Ottawa East |
1980 |
| Ash trees |
2008 |
| Ashbury College |
1910 |
| Assessment lists |
1825, 1834 |
| Athans, Dorothea |
1980 |
| Auctions |
2006 |
| Avian flu |
2006 |
| Aviation Parkway |
1990 , Also see Eastern Parkway |
| Aylmer Road allotment gardens |
1971 |
|
| balloon |
2001 |
| Bank and Grove bus waiting room |
1951 , 1953 , 1959 , 1960 , 1973 |
| Bank Street |
1844, 1849, 1865, 1875, 1948, 1953, 1957, Also see Highway
31, Metcalfe Road, Prescott
Road |
| Bank Street telephone exchange building |
1956 |
| Bank streetcar |
1951 |
| Banks |
1920 |
| Bannermount |
1911, 1941, also see Eastway
Gardens |
| Bantam AAA Championship, All-Ontario Major (hockey) |
1989 , 1991 |
| Barker, William George |
1930 |
| Barracks |
1946 |
| Barrett, Fred |
1970 |
| Barrett, Fred G. Arena |
1969, see also Leitrim
Arena |
| Barrett, Fred G. Sr. |
1974 , 1984 |
| Barrett, John |
1970 |
| Barrhaven |
2014 |
| Baseball |
1957, 1993 |
| Baseline Road allotment gardens |
1971 |
| Base Line Road |
See also St. Laurent Boulevard |
| Baseline Road |
See also Ramsayville Road |
| Bathurst District |
1838 |
| Bay of Quinte |
1783 |
| Bayview |
2001 |
| Beaches |
1936, 1952 |
| Beacon Hill |
1860 , 1960 , 1964 , 1966 , 1972, 1973, 2014 |
| Beacon Hill Bullet |
1971 |
| Bearbrook |
1897 |
| Bearbrook Road |
1970 , 1971 |
| Bearbrook Soccer Fields |
1984 |
| Beauchamp, Wilfred |
1944 |
| Beddoe, Allan |
1963 |
| Beechwood Avenue |
1947 |
| Beechwood Cemetery |
1873, 1904, 1929 |
| Belanger, Lieutenant Mark |
1950 |
| Belfast Maintenance Yard |
2015 |
| Belfast Road |
1959 |
| Bell, Robert |
1849 |
| Bell's Corners |
1973 |
| Bellwood (Bellewood) |
1908 |
| Bender, Frank |
1972 |
| Bennett, Sergeant George |
1943 |
| Bériault, Delores and Marcel |
1967 |
| Besserer Estate |
1910 |
| Besserer's Grove |
1887 , 1897 , 1910 |
| Bilingual employees |
1923 |
| Billings Avenue flag station |
1957 |
| Billings Bridge |
1830, 1834, 1847, 1852, 1854, 1857, 1862, 1874, 1876, 1878, 1880, 1882, 1888, 1890, 1896, 1902, 1907, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1920, 1926, 1928, 1931, 1937, 1942, 1944, 1947, 1948, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1972, 1996, 2013 |
| Billings Bridge Bowling and Billiards |
1962 |
| Billings Bridge Horticultural Society |
1930 , 1937 |
| Billings Bridge Orange Lodge |
1890 |
| Billings Bridge Plaza |
1954, 1961, 1962, 1972, 1973, 1982 |
| Billings Estate |
1892 , 1926 , 1949 |
| Billings family |
1815, 1829 |
| Billings, Braddish |
1812, 1813, 1823, 1825, 1864, 2013 |
| Billings, Hugh Braddish |
1927 |
| Billings, Sabra |
1815 |
| Billingswood Manor |
1959 |
| Bingham, Samuel |
1893 |
| Bingham's Bridge |
1893 |
| Birch, William |
1920 |
| Birch Avenue |
1955 |
| Bishopric Wall Board Company, Billings Bridge |
1913 |
| Blackburn |
1834, 1902, 1940, 1946, 1972, 1981 |
| Blackburn Arena |
1974 |
| Blackburn allotment gardens |
1973 |
| Blackburn Corners |
1917 , 1954 |
| Blackburn family |
1939 |
| Blackburn Fun Fair |
1972 |
| Blackburn Hamlet |
1966, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1990, 1991, 2004 |
| Blackburn Hamlet Bypass |
1990 |
| Blackburn Hamlet Community Association |
1970 |
| Blackburn Hamlet Fire Sation |
1991 |
| Blackburn Public Library |
1973 , 1980 |
| Blackburn Road (now Innes Road) |
1970 |
| Blair Road |
1962 , 1968 |
| Blair Transitway Station |
1989 |
| Blair LRT Station |
2019 |
| Blair, Bessie |
1901 |
| Bloch, Richard & Annette, Cancer Survivors Park |
2008 |
| Block Parents |
1976 |
| Blossom Park |
1849, 1911, 1970, 1972, 1983, 2022 |
| Blossom Park Library |
1974, 2006 |
| Bob MacQuarrie Recreation Complex |
1980 |
| Boehler, Constable Willard |
1953 |
| Boer War |
1902 |
| Boileau, Julie |
2001 |
| Bombing |
1942 |
| Borden, Sir Robert |
1911 |
| Bowesville |
1834, 1913, 1940, 1951 |
| Bowesville Road |
1920 |
| Bowling alley |
1902, 1961, 1962 |
| Boyd, Kenneth |
1953 |
| Boyd's Hotel, Carlsbad Springs |
1968, 1989 |
| Boyer Road |
1966 |
| Bradley, R.A. |
1875 |
| Brickyards |
1882, 1958 |
| Bridges |
1830, 1837, 1846, 1847, 1852, 1854, 1862, 1865, 1866, 1867, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1878, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1889, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1901, 1902, 1904, 1906, 1911, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1921, 1922, 1928, 1930, 1932, 1936, 1938, 1949, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1973, 1977, 1983, 1985, 1986, 2012, 2014 , 2015, 2016, 2019, 2024 |
| Bridge collapses |
1898, 1902, 1908, 1913, 1967 |
| Briggs, Francis Evan Robert |
1941 |
| British Commonwealth Air Training Plan |
1940, 1941 |
| Bronson Avenue streetcar/trolley bus line |
1951 , 1959 |
| Bronson Avenue Swing Bridge |
1938 |
| Brookfield |
1912 |
| Brouse, R.P. farm |
1941 |
| Buena Vista loop |
1932 |
| Bulau, Horst |
1983 |
| Burrows, Frank |
1941 |
| Bus services |
1923, 1924, 1926, 1928, 1931, 1940, 1942, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1987, 1995 |
| Bus stations |
1951, 1959, 1960, 1973, 1982, 1995 |
| Bytown |
1834, 1837, 1854 |
| Bytown & Prescott Carriage Road |
1834 |
| Bytown and
Prescott Railway |
1854, 1957, 1964, 1966, 1984, 1999,
also see Canadian Pacific Railway, Ottawa and Prescott Railway |
| Bytown Bridges |
1953 |
| Bytown Cricket Club |
1865 |
|
| Cadillac-Fairview Ltd. |
1980 |
| Cagney, James |
1941 |
| Cairine Wilson Secondary School |
1975 , 1991, 1994, 1998 |
| Camp Fortune |
1910 |
| Campsites |
1948 |
| Campeau, Robert |
1960 |
| Canada Atlantic Railway |
1882 |
| Canada Land Company |
2011 |
| Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation |
1952 |
| Canada Science and Technology Museum (also see Science and Technology Museum) |
1967 |
| Canada Temperance Act |
1878 |
| Canada Theatre |
1923 |
| Canadian
Forces Base Rockcliffe |
2009, 2011 see also Rockcliffe Air Station, RCAF
Station Rockcliffe, Ottawa Air Station, Rockcliffe Airport |
| Canadian Forces Station Gloucester |
1943, 1972 |
| Canadian Forces Station Leitrim |
1941 |
| Canadian Jumping Championships |
1910 |
| Canadian National
Railway |
1939, 1942 |
| Canadian National
Railway bridges |
1968 |
| Canadian Northern Railway |
1909, 1913, 1914, 1939, 1952, see also Canadian
National Railway |
| Canadian Pacific
Railway |
1854, 1898, 1909, 1957, 1964, 1966, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1999,
see also Bytown and Prescott
Railway, Ottawa and Prescott
Railway |
| Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission |
1933 |
| Canadian Security Intelligence Service |
1995 |
| Canadian Tire Corporation |
1960 |
| Canadian Tire Cup, The |
1989 , 1991 |
| Cancer Survivors Park |
2008 |
| Cancer Survivorship Centre |
2011 |
| Canoe clubs |
1883, 1904, 1913, 1923, 2023 |
| Canotek Road |
1974 |
| Cantin, Leo |
1947 |
| Capital Carbon and Ribbon Company |
1944 |
| Capital Exhibition Centre |
2011 |
| Capital Fair, The |
2014 |
| Capital Golf Gardens |
1960 |
| Capital Lumber Company, 255 Montreal Road, Eastview |
1947 |
| Captains of the Clouds |
1941 |
| Cardinal, Douglas |
2013 |
| Cardinal Heights |
1956, 1972, 1973 |
| Carillon Street |
1953 |
| Carleton Board of Education |
1969, 1998 |
| Carleton County |
1838, 1969 |
| Carleton County fire |
1870 |
| Carleton County Police Force |
1871, 1938 |
| Carleton County Wardens |
1876 |
| Carleton Cricket Club |
1865 |
| Carleton Health Unit |
1948 |
| Carleton Tennis Club |
1914 , 1927 , 1935 |
| Carleton University |
1998 , 2001 , 2024 |
| Carleton University Pedestrian Bridge |
2024 |
| Carleton West-Russell Historical Society |
1964 |
| Carling Avenue |
1959 |
| Carlsbad Springs |
1852, 1870, 1882, 1902, 1935, 1948, 1962, 1965, 1968, 1989, see also Eastman's
Springs |
| Carlsbad Springs Railway Station |
1962 , 1964 |
| Carriere, Gerald |
1955 |
| Carson Grove |
1970 , 1972 |
| Carson Road |
1955 , 1970 |
| Cartier, George-Etienne Parkway |
2014 |
| Cartier Square |
1865 |
| Casa Loma |
1911 , 1944 |
| Casselman |
1897 |
| Castle, The |
1838 |
| CBC Headquarters |
1964 |
| CBO Radio transmitter towers |
1933 , 1955 |
| CE Centre |
2011, 2012 |
| Cemeteries |
1872, 1873, 1902, 1986, 1988 |
| Centennial Pool |
1967, 1988 |
| Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation |
1952 |
| CEntral Telephone Exchanges |
1956 |
| Centre franco-ontarien de ressources pédagogiques |
1974 |
| Chain of Office |
1988 |
| Chamber of Commerce |
1986, 1988, 2005, 2009 |
| Champlain Local Health Integration Network |
2008 |
| Charlevoix Street, Eastview |
1968 |
| Chateau Laurier |
1941 |
| Chaudiere Junction |
1871 |
| Child, first Caucasian |
1815 |
| Children's Aid Society of Ottawa |
1959 , 1993 |
| Childrens' Hospital of Eastern Ontario |
1974 , 1984 , 2006 |
| Choirs |
1978 |
| Churches |
1834 , 1860 |
| Churchill Avenue |
1939, also see Alta
Vista Drive |
| City Crews |
1981 |
| City Halls |
1958, 1972, 1985, 1988, 1993, 1997, 2006, also see Town halls, Township Halls |
| Clairson Lumber Company |
1953 |
| Clandeboye |
1908 |
| Clark, Harold |
1974 |
| Clark, Tracey |
1977 |
| Clark, W. Clifford, Memorial Recreation Centre |
1959 |
| Clarkstown |
1907, 1908, 1950,
also see Ward 6 |
| Cloverdale Loop |
1924 |
| First Cloverleaf |
1959 |
| Coat of Arms |
1963, 1972 |
| Codd's Road |
1908 |
| Colleges |
1955 , 1990 |
| College of Bytown |
1858 |
| Collegiate Institute Board of Ottawa |
1970 |
| Colonel By Secondary School |
1970 , 1971 , 1994 |
| Comedians |
1993 , 1994 |
| Commandeurs de l'ordre de Jacques Cartier |
1926 |
| Common Schools Act |
1851 |
| Community Centres |
1966 , 1984 |
| Commuter service |
1945 |
| Company of Mary Novitiate (Cyrville) |
1904 |
| Confederation Heights |
1950, 1958, 1964 |
| Confederation Line |
2013, 2015, 2019 |
| Connaught Rifle Range |
1921 |
| Connor, William H. (Rockcliffe Councillor) |
1926 |
| Conroy Dog Park (Conroy Pit) |
2022 |
| Constables |
1850, 1909, 1915 |
| Convents |
1904, 1915, 1916, 1941, 1950, 1956 |
| Cornwall |
1954 |
| Coronation Park |
1874 |
| Cosy Theatre |
1919 |
| Cougle, Bryant |
1973 |
| Coventry Pedestrian and Cycling Bridge |
2015, 2016 |
| Coventry Road |
1993 |
| Covid-19 Pandemic |
2020 |
| Cowan Ice House |
1944 , 1947 , 1953 |
| Crawford Purchase |
1793 |
| Crawford, Captain William Redford |
1793 |
| Crichton Street |
1905 , 1954 |
| Cruise Mapother, Tom |
1971 , 1973 |
| Cumberland Township |
1936 |
| Cumberland village |
1972 |
| Cummings Bridge |
1837, 1866, 1887, 1893, 1908, 1922 |
| Cummings, Charles |
1837 |
| Cummings, Robert |
1876 |
| Cunningham, John |
1832 |
| Curling Clubs |
1959 |
| Currier, Joseph Merrill |
1866 |
| Customs and Immigration |
1954 |
| Cycling Paths |
2014 |
| Cyclone |
1888 |
| Cyrville |
1850, 1868, 1904, 1909, 1916, 1928, 1933, 1936, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1957, 1958, 2011 |
| Cyrville Bus Lines |
1950 |
| Cyrville Community Centre |
1984 |
| Cyrville Fire Hall |
1958 |
| Cyrville Road |
1958 , 1970 |
| Cyrville Road Bridge |
2011 |
| Cyrville-Navan Road (now Innes Road) |
1970 |
|
| Dalhousie District |
1842 , 1844 |
| Daughters of Wisdom |
1904 |
| Dawson |
1928 |
| Dawson, H.N. |
1941 |
| Daylight Savings Time |
1919 |
| Delorme |
1850, see also Cyrville |
| Department of National Defense |
1940, 1941 |
| Department of Transport |
1938 |
| Derailments and railway collisions |
1922, 1941, 1942 |
| Derecho storm |
2022 |
| Development fees |
1964 , 1987 |
| Dickinson, Sergeant F.M. |
1859 |
| Dickinson's Grist Mill |
1859 |
| Dolman Ridge |
1972 |
| Dominion Bridge Company |
1912 , 1968 |
| Dominion Bureau of Statistics |
1928 |
| Dominion of Canada Rifle Association |
1898, 1900, 1921, 1937 |
| Dominion Police |
1920 |
| Dominion Springs Company |
1870 |
| Dominion Store |
1956 |
| Donald Street |
1961, 1974, 2015 |
| Dority, J.R. (Earl) |
1941 |
| Dow, Lamira |
1813 |
| Dow's Lake |
1871 |
| Dowler, Bert H. farm |
1941 |
| Drake, Edward, Building |
1964 |
| Draper, Mr. E.J. |
1919 |
| Drew, Hon. George S. |
1950 |
| Drive-In theatres |
1951, 1963, 1970 |
| Drowning |
1901 |
| Dufferin Road |
1905 |
| Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh |
1793 |
| Dunbar Bridge |
1955 |
| Dunbar, Hon. George |
1955 |
| Dundas County |
1793 |
| Dupuis Street (Vanier) |
1974 |
| Durell, Jim (James A.) Recreation Complex |
1991 |
| Dutch Elm Disease |
1957 |
| Duthie, James |
1998 |
| Dynamite factories |
1901 |
|
| Earl Armstrong Arena |
1968, 1971, 1975, 1976, 1987, 1988, 1989 |
| Eastern District |
1793 |
| Eastern Driveway |
1978 , 1988 , see also Rockcliffe
Parkway |
| Eastern Ottawa Chamber of Commerce |
2005 , 2009 |
| Eastern Parkway |
1960 , 1988 , see also Aviation
Parkway |
| Eastman, Daniel |
1852 |
| Eastman's Springs |
1870, 1887, 1902, see also Carlsbad
Springs |
| Eastview |
1908, 1909, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1938, 1940, 1943, 1944, 1947, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1963, 1968, 1969,
see also Janeville, Vanier |
| Eastview Broadcasting Corporation |
1953 |
| Eastview Bus Company |
1924, 1943, 1950 |
| Eastview Center |
1913 |
| Eastview Chamber of Commerce |
1940 |
| Eastview Fire Department |
1909 , 1914 |
| Eastview Hotel |
1918
|
| Eastview incorporated |
1908, 1913, 1963 |
| Eastview Police Commission |
1929 |
| Eastview Police Force |
1909 , 1914 |
| Eastview Telephone Exchange |
1951 , 1966 |
| Eastview Tennis Club |
1968 |
| Eastview Theatre |
1946 |
| Eastview Town Hall |
1909, 1914, 1915 |
| Eastway Gardens |
1911, see also Bannermount |
| Edwards |
1898 , 1941 |
| Edwards Co. Ltd Mills, W.C. |
1907 , 1928 |
| Ellwood |
1922, 1926, 1949, 1953, 1955 |
| Ellwood School |
1955 |
| Elmvale Acres |
1956 |
| Elmvale Shopping Centre |
1961, 1972 |
| Elmwood School |
1915 , 1925 |
| Embrun |
1933 |
| Emerald Bark Beetle |
2008 |
| Emergency shelters |
1946 |
| Enemy attack |
1941 |
| Epstein Hotel |
1948 |
| Ernst & Young Centre |
2012 |
| Explosions |
1901 , 1929 , 1955 |
| Expropriations |
1947 , 1950 |
|
| Fairfield Public School |
1956 |
| Fairs |
1854, 1874, 1975, 1997, 2014 |
| Farmer, George |
1923 |
| Farmer's Bridge |
1830, see also Billings
Bridge |
| Federal District Commission |
1958 |
| Fencing |
1917 |
| Ferries |
1843 , 1868 |
| Festivals |
1991 |
| Figure skating |
1988 |
| Fine's Flowers (Harry Fine) |
1958 |
| Finter |
1946 |
| Fire boxes |
1959 |
| Fire services |
1909, 1930, 1941, 1943, 1944, 1950, 1962, 1985, 1991 |
| Fire Stations |
1907 , 1914 , 1938 , 1944 , 1956 , 1957 , 1958 , 1959 , 1960 , 1962 , 1975 , 1987 , 1991 |
| Fire Training Station |
1991 |
| Fire trucks |
1921 |
| Fires |
1870, 1887, 1897, 1906, 1907, 1916, 1923, 1926, 1927, 1932, 1934, 1937, 1943, 1944, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1953, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1980, 1993, 1999, 2001 |
| Flag |
1983 |
| Flat Rock Swimming Hole |
1951 |
| Floods |
1887 , 1896 , 1926 , 1947 |
| Floraville |
1908 |
| Flying clubs |
1928 |
| Foodmart |
1962 |
| Footbridge at Rideau Lawn Tennis Club |
1911, 1916, 1928, 1949, 1952 |
| Foster's sandpits |
1948 |
| Fox, Terry |
1972 , 1981 |
| Franco-Ontario rights |
1914 |
| Fraser, James |
1837 |
| Fred G. Barrett Arena |
1969, 1976 see also Leitrim
Arena |
| Frederickburgh |
1908 |
| Fredville |
1908 |
| Freimart |
1962 |
| French Embassy |
1939 |
| Front Road (Riverside Road) |
1873 |
|
| Garbage Dumps |
See Sanitary Disposal Facilities |
| Gateville |
1874 |
| Gatineau Point |
1843 , 1868 |
| Gauthier, Jean Building |
1967 |
| Gauvin Road |
1954 |
| General Explosive Company |
1908 |
| George-Etienne Cartier Parkway |
2014 |
| George McIlraith Bridge |
1966 |
| Gladman, W.J. greenhouses |
1947 |
| Glen Ogilvie |
1919 |
| Gloucester 5 Cinemas |
1988 |
| Gloucester Achievement Awards |
1981 |
| Gloucester Adult Seniors Centre |
1988 |
| Gloucester Agricultural Fair |
1874 |
| Gloucester Agricultural Society |
1854 |
| Gloucester Allotment Gardens Association |
1981 |
| Gloucester and Cumberland Fire Fighters Association |
1987 |
| Gloucester Arts Council |
1980 |
| Gloucester Centre |
1988 |
| Gloucester Centre for Community Resources |
1979, 1988 |
| Gloucester Chamber of Commerce |
1986, 1987, 1988, 2005, 2009 |
| Gloucester City Centre |
1984, 1987, 1988 |
| Gloucester City Hall |
1987 , 1997 |
| Gloucester Community Police Committee |
1977 |
| Gloucester Fair |
1854, 1874, 1975, 1997, 2014 |
| Gloucester Family Day Care |
1988 |
| Gloucester Gardens |
1914 |
| Gloucester Glen |
1952 |
| Gloucester Guide |
1976 |
| Gloucester High School |
1963 , 1991 , 1993 , 1998 |
| Gloucester High School District |
1948
|
| Gloucester Historical Society |
1961, 1964, 1978, 1988, 2000, 2024 |
| Gloucester Horticultural Society |
1925 , 1940 |
| Gloucester Hockey Association |
1968 |
| Gloucester Hydro |
1964, 2000 |
| Gloucester incorporation |
1850, 1981 |
| Gloucester Lacrosse |
1970 |
| Gloucester Leader |
1976 |
| Gloucester Leisure Service Guide |
1982 |
| Gloucester Library Board |
1966 |
| Gloucester Lions Club |
1968, 1973 |
| Gloucester Museum |
1989 , 2000, 2004 |
| Gloucester named |
1793 |
| Gloucester North Lions Club |
1995 |
| Gloucester Players |
1973 |
| Gloucester Police |
1964, 1973, 1995 |
| Gloucester Police Headquarters |
1978 |
| Gloucester Police Station |
1970 |
| Gloucester Pottery School |
1991 |
| Gloucester Professional Fire Fighters Association |
1963 , 2001 |
| Gloucester Public School Board |
1965 |
| Gloucester Quarry |
1981 |
| Gloucester Rangers Junior A Hockey Club (also see Ottawa M & W Rangers, Orléans Blues, Rockland Nationals) |
1973 , 1974 , 1980 , 1993 , 2005 , 2008 , 2017 |
| Gloucester Rangers AAA Bantam Hockey Club |
1987 , 1989 , 1991 |
| Gloucester Recreation Board |
1964 |
| Gloucester Ringette Association |
1972 |
| Gloucester Road (now Bank Street) |
1875 |
| Gloucester Santa Claus Parade |
1987 |
| Gloucester Senior Songsters |
1978 |
| Gloucester Skating Club |
1971 |
| Gloucester Soccer Association |
2004 |
| Gloucester South Community Services Centre |
1988 |
| Gloucester South Public Library |
1982, 1992 |
| Gloucester South Seniors' Club (Gloucester South 50's Seniors' Club) |
1983, 1988 |
| Gloucester Splash Wave Pool |
1988 |
| Gloucester Station |
1854 |
| Gloucester Synchro Swim Club |
1977 |
| Gloucester Volunteer Fire Commission |
1950 |
| Gloucester Volunteer Awards |
1980 |
| Gloucester-Nepean Police Department |
1957 , 1962 |
| Gold |
1974 |
| Golden, George |
1944 |
| Golf courses |
1922, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1972, 1977, 1991, 1999 |
| Gorffwysta |
1866 |
| Gorman, Mrs. M. |
1926 |
| Gould, A.R. |
1950 |
| Governor Generals |
1865, 1901, 1909, 1969 |
| Governor's Bay |
1883 |
| Gravel pits |
1913 |
| Gréber Plan |
1947 , 1950 |
| Gréber, Jacques |
1947 |
| Green Island |
1846, 1887, 1928, 1953, 1958, 1993 |
| Green, Tom |
1994 |
| Green Shoal Light |
1860 |
| Green's Creek |
1870, 1887, 1901, 1918, 1933, 1959, 1960 |
| Green's Creek Pollution Control Centre |
1963 |
| Greenbelt |
1958 |
| Greenboro |
1974 , 2018 |
| Greenboro busway |
1987 , 1995 |
| Greenboro District Library |
2006 |
| Greenboro Transitway Station |
1995, 2001 |
| Greenhouses |
1958 |
| Greenough residence |
1972 |
| Grey Nuns of the Cross |
1885, 1915, 1941, 1950, 1956 |
| Grey, Lord |
1909 |
| Guerin, J.A.J. |
1929 |
| Guilbault, Adolph |
1906 |
|
| Hailstorms |
1933 , 1935 , 1936 |
| Hamilton, Lord Frederick |
1887 |
| Hamilton Powder Company |
1908 |
| Hardscrabble |
1827 |
| Harness racing |
1962 |
| Hardy, Caleb |
1917 |
| Harrington, Allan |
1950 |
| Harper, Bert |
1901 |
| Hawthorne |
1882, 1888, 1898, 1913, 1925, 1933, 1951 |
| Hawthorne Cemetery |
1902 |
| Hawthorne School |
1955 |
| Health Unit, Carleton |
1948 |
| Heath, Richard Wallace |
1941 , 1967 |
| Henry Munro School |
1966 , 1994 |
| Heron Road |
1934 , 1948 |
| Heron Road Bridge |
1966 , 1967 |
| Herongate Mall |
1981 , 2013 |
| Hiawatha Park |
1910 |
| Hiawatha Station |
1910 |
| High speed railway |
1986 |
| Highway 17 |
1920, 1952, 1998 also see Regional Road 174, Montreal
Road, St. Joseph Blvd. |
| Highway 31 |
1936 , 1998 , also see Prescott Road, Metcalfe
Road, Bank Street, Regional
Road 85, Regional Road 31 |
| Highway 417 |
1969, 1972, 1975, 2011, 2014 |
| Hillsdale Road |
1955 |
| Hockey championships |
1949, 1987, 1989 , 1991 |
| Hockey Clubs |
1949, 1968, 1971 , 1973 , 1974 , 1987 , 1989 , 1991 , 2005 , 2008 , 2017 |
| Hockey players |
1949, 1970, 1991, 1993, 1995 |
| Hodgins, Rooney Alexander |
1948 |
| Hog's Back |
1815, 1829, 1920, 1953 |
| Hog's Back Bridge |
1886, 1904, 1921, 1930, 1936, 1977 |
| Hog's Back Dam |
1829, 1862, 1882, 1891, 1910 |
| Hog's Back Park |
1955 |
| Holy Rosary Novitiate and Scholasticate |
1949, 1988 |
| Hope Cemetery |
1986, 1988 |
| Hope, Donald |
1955 |
| Hope, Murray |
1955 |
| Hopewell, Mayor Charles |
1908 |
| Hopewell Hospital |
1913 |
| Hopewell Field |
1919 , also see Hopewell
Field, Hunt Club
Field, Uplands Airport, Ottawa
International Airport, MacDonald-Cartier
International Airport |
| Hopkins farm |
1960 |
| Hornet's Nest Park |
1984 |
| Hospitals |
1913, 1918, 1941, 1950, 1953, 1961, 1967, 1974, 1980, 1995, 1998 |
| Hot air balloon |
2001 |
| Hotels |
1897, 1906, 1910, 1918, 1948, 1965, 1968, 1989 |
| Hudson, John |
1901 |
| Hull |
1908 |
| Hull, Wesley |
1902 |
| Hunt Club Field |
1927, also see Hopewell
Field, Lindbergh
Field, Uplands Airport, Ottawa
International Airport, MacDonald-Cartier
International Airport |
| Hunt Club Road |
1986 , 1999 , 2014 |
| Hunt Club Road Bridge |
1985 |
| Hunt Club neighbourhood |
2018 |
| Hurdman's Bridge |
1874, 1882, 1895, 1898, 1902, 1906, 1907, 1909, 1914, 1915, 1926, 1931, 1939, 1941, 1947, 1949, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1960, 1968, 1981, 1983, 1986 |
| Hurdman Interlock Tower |
1966 |
| Hurdman Station |
1983, 1987, 2015, 2019 |
| Hurdman's Transitway Bridge |
1983 |
| Hydro Ottawa |
2000 |
| Hydro service |
1891 |
| Hydro towers |
1931 |
|
| Ice houses |
1944, 1947, 1953 |
| Ice skating |
1901 |
| Ice storms |
1931, 1998 |
| Incorporations |
1850, 1867, 1908, 1922, 1925, 1963, 1981 |
| Indigenous peoples |
1783 |
| Indoor Sports Fields |
2004 |
| Industrial development |
1947 |
| Industrial Parks |
1959 |
| Information Gloucester |
1973 |
| Innes Road |
1918, 1933, 1959, 1965, 1970, 1984, 1991, 2006 |
| Innes, John (Jack) |
1939 , 1940 , 2013 |
| International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) |
2001 |
|
| J. H. Parkin Building |
1941 |
| J.B. Potvin Arena |
1975, 2014 |
| Jails |
1972 |
| Janeville |
1837, 1854, 1887, 1890, 1896, 1904, 1907, 1908,
see also Eastview, Vanier |
| Jeanne d'Arc Boulevard |
2010 |
| Jet aircraft |
1945 |
| Jim (James A.) Durrell Recreation Complex |
1991 |
| John Street |
1827 |
| Johnson, Lieut. Thad |
1927 |
| Johnson's Hotel, Carlsbad Springs |
1965 |
| Johnston, Grace History Room |
2024 |
| Johnston, James |
1827 |
| Johnston's Corners |
1913 |
| Johnston's Corners Public School |
1978 |
| Jones, Edward D. Public Library |
1982, 1992 |
| Joseph Cyr Street |
1974 |
| Jubilee House |
1897 , 1910 |
| Juliana, Crown Princess of the Netherlands |
1940 |
| Junction Gore |
1831 |
| Juno Beach Memorial Bridge |
2019 |
|
| Kars |
1935 |
| Keefer, Alan |
1914 |
| Keefer, Charles H. |
1922 |
| Keeping, Max Bridge |
2016 |
| Kemp Farm |
1940 |
| Keefer, Thomas Coltrin |
1864 |
| Kilborn allotment gardens (see Pleasant Park Road allotment gardens) |
|
| Kilborn Avenue |
1957 |
| King's Highways, The |
1930 |
| K-Mart |
1970 |
| Komerani residence |
1972 |
|
| L'association canadienne-française de
l'Ontario |
1914 |
| La Cité Collégiale |
1990 |
| Lacrosse |
1901, 1970 |
| Lady Alexander Driveway |
1952, 1955 |
| Lajoie Street, Eastview |
1950 |
| Lalonde, Gisèle |
1974 |
| Lamira Dow Billings Elementary School |
1971 |
| Lancaster Road |
1903, 1976, 1987 |
| Landriault Shopping Plaza, Eastview |
1956 |
| Langstaff farm |
1913 |
| Language Training Centre, Carson Road |
1970 |
| Lavertue, Emile (and family) fire |
1959 |
| Le Centre Franco |
1974 |
| Leader of the Opposition residence |
1950 |
| Lebanese Festival |
1991 |
| Lebreton Flats |
1871 |
| Leeds County |
1783 |
| Lees Station |
2015 |
| Leitrim |
1834, 1907, 1926, 1940, 1941, 1945, 1962, 1966, 1967, 1974, 1978, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1996, 2009 |
| Leitrim Arena |
1969, 1984 |
| Leitrim Fire Station 3 (now Ottawa Fire Station 32) |
1962 , 1996 |
| Leitrim Public School |
1970 |
| Leitrim Road |
1950 , 1973 , 2001 |
| Lemieux, Marie-Joseph Archbishop of Ottawa |
1955 , 1957, 1959, 1964 |
| Les Soeurs Antioniennes de Marie |
1951 |
| Lester B. Pearson Catholic High School |
1974 |
| Lester Road |
1951, 1993 |
| Limoges (formerly South Indian) |
1897 |
| Libraries |
1948, 1958, 1966, 1967, 1971, 1973, 1976 , 1980 , 1982 , 1984, 1992, 1996, 2006 |
| Lighthouses |
1860 |
| Linda Thom Park |
2013 |
| Lindbergh Field |
1927, 1928, see also Hunt
Club Field, Uplands Airport, Ottawa
International Airport, MacDonald-Cartier
International Airport |
| Lindbergh, Charles |
1927 , 1931 |
| Linden Theatre |
1947 |
| Lindenlea |
1889, 1925 |
| Lionel, the talking safety car |
1973 |
| Lions Club |
1968, 1973, 1995 |
| Liquor votes |
1911, 1919, 1921, 1924, 1954, 1957, 1967, 1978 |
| Local Health Integration Network |
2008 |
| Local Option (Failed Prohibition) |
1911 |
| Long Island |
1849, 1854, 1859, 1862, 1867, 1974 |
| Long Island Bridge |
1865 |
| Long-Distance Telephone Service |
1963 |
| Lornado |
1908, 1935 |
| Long Island Village |
1833, 1834, 1859 |
| Lourdes |
1850, see also Cyrville |
| Lowertown |
1901 |
| LRT (Light Rail Transit) |
2015 , 2019 |
| Lunenburg District |
1788 |
| Lycée Claudel |
1972 |
|
| MacDonald-Cartier International Airport |
1993, 1995, 1998, 2003, 2014,
see also Hunt Club Field, Lindbergh
Field, Uplands Airport, Ottawa
International Airport |
| MacDonald, Norm |
1993 |
| MacLaren's Bridge (Green Island) |
1885 |
| MacNab, Duncan Rynier |
1838 |
| MacQuarrie, Bob, Recreation Complex |
2006 |
| Madonna Care Community |
1959 |
| Madonna Retreat House |
1959 , 1970 |
| Madonna Nursing Home |
1970 |
| Mail delivery, rural |
1911 |
| Mail flights |
1918 |
| Major, Asconio J. |
1914 |
| Major, Luc |
1858 |
| Manley, Elizabeth |
1988 |
| Manor Park |
1911 , 1948 , 1950 , 1955 |
| Manor Park Shopping Centre |
1957 |
| Manotick |
1859, 1862, 1889, 1935, 1938, 1942, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1974 |
| Manotick Back Channel bridge (north of Dickenson Mill) |
1938, 1958 |
| Manotick bridge |
1885, 1910 |
| Manotick High Level bridge |
1956 |
| Manotick Public School |
1941 |
| Manotick Station |
1854 |
| Manotick Swing Bridge |
1932 , 1956 , 1960 |
| Maple Leaf-Almrausch Club |
1967 , 1980 |
| Maplesoft House |
2011 |
| Mappin Block (Rideau Hall) |
1913 |
| Mapother, Mary Lee (née Pfeiffer) |
1971 , 1972 |
| Mapother, Thomas III |
1971 , 1972 |
| Margriet, Princess |
1940 |
| Marguerite Avenue |
1947 |
| Marion, Séraphin |
1983 |
| Marlborough Township |
1783 |
| Mayors |
1984 , 2012 |
| McArthur Avenue |
1868 , 1950 , 1960 , 1962 , 1975 |
| McArthur Lanes |
1962 |
| McArthur Shopping Plaza |
1959 , 1963 , 2004 |
| McDiarmid, Don |
1940 , 1946 |
| McEvoy, C.P. |
1955 |
| McIlraith, George, Bridge |
1966 |
| McIntosh, Grant |
1968 , 1973 . 1974 |
| McInstosh & Watts China Store |
1968 |
| McKay Estate |
1864 |
| McKay, Thomas |
1827, 1831, 1833, 1838, 1854, 1855 |
| McKay/Keefer Estate |
1873 |
| McKeand, Major David Livingstone (first Reeve of Rockcliffe) |
1926 |
| McLaren's bridge (see MacLaren's bridge) |
|
| McLaren's dam |
1876 |
| McLaurin Farm, Ellwood |
1926 |
| McPhail Farm |
1873 |
| McWhinney, Constable John Derrie |
1953 |
| Meals on Wheels |
1981 |
| Mer Bleue |
1887 , 1942 , 1965 , 1972 |
| Mercer, Lieutenant George |
1919 |
| Merivale Road |
1920 |
| Merkley brickyard |
1882, 1958 |
| Messner, Pat |
1979 |
| Metcalfe |
1935 |
| Metcalfe Road |
1873, 1907, 1913, 1920 , 1921, 1923, 1926, 1936, 1942, 1949, see also Prescott
Road, Highway 31, Bank
Street, Regional Road 31, Regional
Road 85 |
| Metcalfe Road bus route |
1951 , 1960 |
| Methodist Church |
1834 |
| Michael J.E. Sheflin Bridge |
1985 |
| Midget AAA Championship, National (hockey) |
1987 |
| Mile Circle (also known as the Rockcliffe Speedway) |
1955 |
| Minor Seminary |
1955 , 1970 |
| Minto Bridge |
1901 |
| Minto Cup (Lacrosse) |
1901 |
| Minto Cup (Figure skating) |
1903 |
| Minto Challenge Cup (Figure skating) |
1903 |
| Minto, Earl of |
1901 , 1903 |
| Minto Skating Club |
1903 , 1987 |
| Minto Wing (Rideau Hall) |
1899 |
| Miscampbell, Squadron Leader George V. |
1943 |
| Mississauga tribe |
1783 |
| Miss Ottawa Rough Rider |
1977 |
| Mitch Owens Road |
1992 |
| Mitchell, Patrick "Paddy" |
1974 |
| Monck, Viscount |
1866 |
| Monck Wing (Rideau Hall) |
1866 |
| Montfort Hospital |
1953 |
| Montgomery Street, Eastview |
1950 |
| Montreal Road |
1868, 1908, 1909, 1920, 1923, 1929, 1941, 1946, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1956, 1957, 1972, 1980,
also see Highway 17 |
| Monuments |
1901, 1902 |
| Mooney's Bay |
1936, 1947, 1952, 1958, 1963, 1964, 1972, 1981, 1991, 2017 |
| Mooney's Bay Beach |
1952 |
| Mooney's Bay Sports Complex |
1972 , 1981 |
| Morrison-Lamothe Bakery |
1966 |
| Motion pictures |
1941 |
| Mount St. Joseph's Home for disturbed children |
1971 also see St. Joseph's Orphanage |
| Movie studio |
1980 |
| Mud Creek Bridge |
1918 , 1933 , 1959 |
| Municipal Affairs Act |
1935 |
| Municipal Government |
1849 |
| Municipal Isolation Hospital |
1913 |
| Municipal Reform Act |
1832 |
| Munro, Henry Middle School |
1966 , 1970 , 1971 , 1994 |
| Munro, Henry |
1966 |
| Munro, Jack W. |
1941 |
| Murphy, John R. |
1941 |
| Museums |
1957, 1964, 1967, 1988, 1989, 2004, 2006, 2014, 2017 |
| Musical Ride |
1912 |
| Mynass, Chief |
1783 |
|
| National Aeronautical Collection |
1964 |
| National Capital Commission (NCC) |
1958 , 1965 , 1971 , 1973 , 1981 |
| National Capital Planning Committee |
1947 |
| National Capital Region |
1947 |
| National Defense Medical Centre |
1961 |
| National Museum of Aviation |
1988 |
| National Museum of Science and Technology |
1966 , 1967 , 2014 , 2017 |
| National Research Council |
1917, 1928, 1941, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1993 |
| National Sport and Fitness Administration Centre |
1987 |
| Navan Road |
1936 |
| Navan-Cyrville Road (now Innes Road) |
1970 |
| NCC River House |
2023 |
| Nepean |
1854 |
| New Edinburgh |
1831, 1833, 1837, 1846, 1854, 1867, 1868, 1875, 1883, 1887, 1891, 1893, 1896, 1901, 1905, 1907, 1929, 1938, 1954 |
| New Edinburgh Bridge |
1872 , 1893 |
| New Edinburgh Canoe Club |
1904 , 1913 |
| New Edinburgh Cinema |
1947 |
| New Edinburgh Streetcar |
1954 |
| New Edinburgh Swimming Pool |
1951 , 1971 |
| New Edinburgh (Tennis) Club |
1960 |
| Newspapers |
1969, 1976, 1986 |
| NHL players |
1970 , 1991 , 1993 , 1995 |
| Nicholson, George |
1974 |
| Nielson, Roger |
2006 |
| Nordic Circle |
1956 |
| North Bay |
1941 |
| North Gloucester Little League Baseball |
1957 |
| Notre Dame Cemetery |
1872 , 1969 |
| Notre Dame de Lourdes Grotto |
1911 |
| Notre Dame Hounds hockey club |
1987 |
| Novitiate of the Grey Nuns of the Cross |
1915, 1941 |
| Novitiate of the Sisters of Wisdom |
1909 |
|
| Oblates of Mary Immaculate |
1959 |
| OC Transpo |
1971, 1972, see also Ottawa
Transportation Commission |
| Official plan |
1963 |
| Ogilvie Road |
1954, 1962, 1971, 1981, 1984, 1995 |
| O'Hagan, James |
1843 |
| Olmstead Street |
1956 |
| Olympic Flame |
1976 |
| Olympics |
1988 |
| Ontario Athlete of the Year |
1983 |
| Ontario Hydro |
1924 |
| Ontario Liquor Control Act |
1927 |
| Ontario Provincial Police |
1948 |
| Ontario Temperance Act |
1916 , 1919 , 1924 , 1927 |
| Oostenbrug, Captain Albert |
1980 |
| Orange Hall |
1902 |
| Orange Lodges |
1849, 1876, 1890 |
| Orléans |
1858, 1860, 1885, 1887, 1897, 1909, 1910, 1915, 1922, 1929, 1935, 1939, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1966, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1979, 1994, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2019, see also St. Joseph, St. Joseph d'Orléans |
| Orléans Blues Junior A Hockey Club (also see Ottawa M & W Rangers, Gloucester Rangers, Rockland Nationals) |
2005 , 2008 |
| Orléans Boulevard |
1993 , 2006 |
| Orléans bus service |
1974 |
| Orléans Fire Hall |
1956, 1959 , 1960 |
| Orléans Health Hub |
2021 |
| Orléans Minor Softball Association |
1972 |
| Orléans Public Library |
1958, 1967 , 1982 , 1996 |
| Orléans Recreation Complex |
1967, 1980, 2006 |
| Orléans Santa Claus Parade of Lights |
1987 |
| Orléans Star |
1986 |
| Orléans Station |
1910 |
| Orléans Telephone Exchange |
1966 |
| Osgoode Township |
1897 |
| O'Shea residence |
1972 |
| Oswegatchie Onodaga tribe |
1897 |
| O-Train (also see Trillium Line, O-Train Line 2, Confederation Line, O-Train Line 1) |
2001 , 2003 , 2004 , 2014 , 2015 |
| O-Train Line 2 |
2020 |
| Ottawa |
1865 |
| Ottawa 67s |
1993 |
| Ottawa Air Station |
1920, 1924, see also Rockcliffe
Airport |
| Ottawa Athletic Club |
1976 , 2020 |
| Ottawa and Gloucester Road Company |
1865 , 1873 , 1874 , 1875 , 1878 |
| Ottawa and Morrisburgh Electric Railway |
1913 |
| Ottawa and New York Railway |
1898, 1900, 1908, 1954, 1957 |
| Ottawa and
Prescott Railway |
1854, 1865, 1871,
see also Bytown and Prescott
Railway, Canadian Pacific
Railway |
| Ottawa and Russell Road Company |
1871 |
| Ottawa Baseball Park |
1993 |
| Ottawa Board of Education |
1970, 1998 |
| Ottawa Brick & Terra Cotta Limited |
1914 |
| Ottawa Business Park |
1984 |
| Ottawa Canoe Club |
1883 , 1913 |
| Ottawa City Hall |
1958, 1993 |
| Ottawa City Passenger Railway Company |
1870, 1893 |
| Ottawa Civic Hospital |
1940 , 1998 |
| Ottawa Cricket Club |
1865 |
| Ottawa Dairy Ice House |
1953 |
| Ottawa District |
1816 |
| Ottawa Electric Railway |
1893, 1894, 1919, 1924, 1925, 1933, 1937, 1948 |
| Ottawa Electric Street Railway |
1893 |
| Ottawa Expansion Committee |
1944 |
| Ottawa Fat Cats |
1993 |
| Ottawa Flying Club |
1928 |
| Ottawa General Hospital |
1980 , 1998 |
| Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club |
1922, 1959, 1962, 2022 |
| Ottawa Hunt and Motor Club |
1919 |
| Ottawa Hunt Club |
1907 , 1909 , 1911, 1919 |
| Ottawa International
Airport |
1964, 1974, 1980, 1993, see also Hunt
Club Field, Lindbergh Field, Uplands
Airport, MacDonald-Cartier
International Airport |
| Ottawa Lynx |
1993 |
| Ottawa M & W Rangers Junior A Hockey Club (also see Gloucester Rangers, Orléans Blues, Rockland Nationals) |
1968 , 1971 , 1973 |
| Ottawa Montagnards Hockey Club |
1968 |
| Ottawa Motor Club |
1919 |
| Ottawa Municipal Tree Nursery |
1948 , 1957 , 1966 |
| Ottawa New Edinburgh Canoe (Aquatic) Club |
1883, 1913, 1923, 1925, 2023 |
| Ottawa Planning Area Board |
1947 |
| Ottawa Police Service |
1985 , 1995 |
| Ottawa Powder Company Dynamite Factory, Green's Creek |
1901 |
| Ottawa Post Office |
1970 |
| Ottawa Professional Fire Fighters Association |
2001 |
| Ottawa Railway Station |
1966 |
| Ottawa Rapids |
1993 |
| Ottawa River |
1901, 1904, 1930 |
| Ottawa Rotary Home |
2009 |
| Ottawa Senators |
1949 |
| Ottawa Ski Club |
1910 |
| Ottawa South |
1926, 1942 |
| Ottawa Street, Orléans |
1957 |
| Ottawa Street Bridge |
1873, see also St.
Patrick Street Bridge |
| Ottawa Suburban Roads Commission |
1919 , 1920 |
| Ottawa Tennis and Lawn Bowling Club |
1912 |
| Ottawa
Transportation Commission |
1928, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1958, 1960, see also OC
Transpo |
| Ottawa Voyageurs |
1993 |
| Ottawa Wine Vault Co. |
1911 |
| Ottawa Wireless Station |
1941 |
| Ottawa-Carleton District School Board |
1998 |
| Ottawa-Carleton Regional Detention Centre |
1972 |
| Ottawa-Carleton Regional Police Service |
1995 |
| Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality |
1969 |
| Ottawa-Gloucester Expansion Committee |
1944 |
| Ottawa-Gloucester Guardian |
1969 |
| Overbrook |
1911, 1912, 1919, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1930, 1941, 1943, 1944, 1947, 1948, 1950 , 2015 |
| Overbrook Community Centre |
1950, 1966 |
| Overbrook Community Hall |
1923 |
| Overbrook Public School |
1916, 1950 |
| Overbrook Volunteer Fire Brigade |
1930, 1944 |
| Owens, Mitch Road |
1992 |
|
| Paardeburgh Park |
1911 |
| Parachutists |
1943 |
| Parades |
1987 |
| Park Hill |
1829 |
| Parkburn Boulevard |
1971 |
| Parking meters |
1951 |
| Parks |
1874, 1893, 1945 , 2008 |
| PArkway Telephone Exchanges |
1956 |
| Parliament Hill |
1901 |
| Parry, W.J. |
1880 |
| Parson's Dairy Farm |
1934 |
| Pedestrian bridges |
1911, 1916, 1928, 1949, 1952, 2015, 2016, 2024 |
| Pension Plan |
1948 |
| Peplinski, Jim |
1991 |
| Pères Blancs Avenue, Vanier |
1976 |
| Perley and Rideau Veterans Health Centre |
1995 |
| Phelan, D.F. (Donny) |
1941 |
| Pickard, R.O., Environmental Centre |
1963 |
| Pine Road (Leitrim Road) |
1973 |
| Pineglen, Nepean |
1972 |
| Pinegrove |
2022 |
| Pineland |
1945, 1973, 1999 |
| The Pines (formerly Pineland) |
1973 |
| Pineview |
1972, 1973 |
| Pineview Golf Course |
1959, 1972, 1977, 1991, 1999 |
| Piperville |
1898 1962 |
| Place d'Orléans Shopping Centre |
1979 |
| Plane crashes |
1927, 1930, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1946, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1967, 1980 |
| Plaques |
1940, 2013 |
| Plastics and Chemicals Company Limited |
1947 |
| Pleasant Park Road allotment gardens (also known as Kilborn or Urbandale allotment gardens) |
1971 |
| Police |
1871, 1909, 1929, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1948, 1957, 1962, 1964, 1972, 1977, 1978, 1984, 1995 |
| Police Stations |
1890, 1914, 1957, 1962, 1970, 1972, 1981 |
| Police Villages |
1908, 1922, 1974 |
| Porter's Island |
1888, 1894, 1913, 1946 |
| Post offices |
1970 |
| Pottery School |
1991 |
| J.B. Potvin Arena |
1975 |
| Powell, Montague G. (Rockcliffe Councillor) |
1926 |
| Power failures |
2003 |
| Prescott |
1834 |
| Prescott Road |
1844, see also Metcalfe
Road, Highway 31, Bank
Street, Regional Road 31, Regional
Road 85 |
| Preston Streetcar Line |
1913 , 1959 |
| Prime Minister's residence |
1943 |
| Prince of Wales Drive |
1920 |
| Prince of Wales Falls |
1920 |
| Princess Juliana |
1940 |
| Princess Margaret |
1958 |
| Princess Margriet |
1940 |
| Prohibition |
1878 , 1911 , 1916 , 1918 , 1919 , 1921 , 1924 , 1927 |
| Provincial Highways |
1920, 1930 |
| Proving Grounds |
1940 |
| Provost Company |
1939 |
|
| Quarries |
1908, 1981 |
| Quarries School |
1955 |
| Quebec City |
1904 |
| Queen Elizabeth |
1957, 1967 |
| Queen Mother |
1954 |
| Queensway |
1955, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1968 |
| Queensway Drive-In Theatre |
1963 , 1996 |
| Queensway Industrial Campus |
1974 |
| Quinn, James farm |
1941 |
| Quota Club of Gloucester |
1979 |
|
| R.A. Centre |
1958 , 1959 |
| Radio |
1953 |
| Radio transmitter towers |
1933 , 1955 |
| Railway bridges |
1913 |
| Railway collisions and Derailments |
1922 , 1942 |
| Railway freight terminal |
1966 |
| Railway overpasses |
1953 |
| Railway stations |
1910 , 1957 , 1966 |
| Railways |
1854, 1871, 1875, 1882, 1893, 1898, 1900, 1908 1909, 1913, 1914, 1922, 1939, 1940, 1947, 1949, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1964, 1966, 1984, 1999, 2001 , 2003, 2004, 2014, 2015, 2019, 2020
|
| Rainbow Cinemas |
1967 |
| Ramsayville |
1888, 1898, 1913, 1925, 1950, 1962, 1969, 1972 |
| Ramsayville Road (formerly
Baseline Road) |
1897 , 1950 |
| Rankin, John (Police Chief) |
1957 |
| RCAF Station Rockcliffe |
1934, 1945, 1957, 1964, 2009, see also Rockcliffe Air Station, Canadian
Forces Base Rockcliffe, Ottawa Air
Station, Rockcliffe Airport |
| RCAF Station Uplands |
1957 |
| Real estate boom |
1910 |
| Reeves |
1850, 1930, 1939 |
| Reid, Stephen |
1974 |
| Recreation associations |
1948 |
| REgent 3 telephone exchange |
1956 |
| Regional government |
1947, 1969 |
| Regional Road 8 |
1992 |
| Regional Road 31 |
1998 also see Prescott
Road, Metcalfe Road, Bank
Street, Regional Road 85, Highway
31 |
| Regional Road 85 |
1998 also see Prescott
Road, Metcalfe Road, Bank
Street, Highway 31, Regional
Road 31 |
| Regional Road 174 |
1998 also see Highway
17, |
| Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton |
1969 |
| Relief |
1931 |
| Resorts |
1887, 1897, 1910, 1948 |
| Retail Merchants' Association of Eastview |
1918 |
| Retirement Homes |
1959 |
| Revelstoke |
1973 |
| Richards, Wallace |
1941 |
| Richcraft Sensplex |
2014 |
| Richelieu Centre |
1978 , 1985 |
| Richmond Road |
1920 |
| Rideau Annex |
1950 |
| Rideau Branch, Royal Canadian Legion |
1947 |
| Rideau Bridge (see also Cummings Bridge) |
1866 |
| Rideau Canal |
1826, 1832, 1853, 1883, 2007 |
| Rideau Falls |
1830, 1846, 1876 |
| Rideau Hall |
1838, 1865 , 1866, 1868 , 1887, 1899, 1913 |
| Rideau Hotel, Hurdman's Bridge |
1906 |
| Rideau
Health and Occupational Centre |
1944 , 1945 , see also Rideau
Veteran's Home |
| Rideau Lawn Tennis Club |
1912 , 1919 , 1940 , 1946 , 2001 , 2017 |
| Rideau Lawn Tennis Club footbridge |
1912 , 1949 , 1952 |
| Rideau Military Hospital |
1941, 1950 |
| Rideau Park |
1892 , 1948 |
| Rideau River |
1926, 1931, 1947, 1954, 1960 |
| Rideau River accidents |
1974 |
| Rideau River floods |
1896, 1907, 1913, 1926, 1947 |
| Rideau Skating Club |
1903 , 1976 |
| Rideau Sports Centre |
2017 |
| Rideau Terrace |
1955 |
| Rideau Township |
1974 |
| Rideau Veterans' Home |
1944, 1945, 1947, 1995, see also Rideau
Health and Occupational Centre |
| Rideau-Carleton Raceway |
1962, 1975, 1997, 2000 |
| Rideau-Wurtemburg/Charlotte Bus Waiting Room |
1951, 1959 |
| Ridge Road Garbage Disposal Area |
1964, 1977 |
| Rifle ranges |
1898, 1900, 1904, 1905, 1908, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1923, 1937 |
| Ringette |
1972 |
| Ritchie Feed and Seed Ltd |
1965 |
| River House |
2023 |
| River Road |
1874 , 1913 |
| Riverdale Tennis Club |
1924 |
| Riverains de Richilieu hockey club |
1987 |
| Riverside Campsite |
1964 |
| Riverside Drive |
1873, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1986 |
| Riverside Garbage Disposal Area |
1948, 1963 |
| Riverside Hospital |
1967 , 1996 , 1998 |
| Riverside Park |
1973 |
| Riverside South |
2004 , 2014 |
| Riverview Park |
1950 , 1953 |
| Road maintenance |
1901 |
| Robert Hopkins Public School |
1971 |
| Robberies |
1974 |
| Robillard Quarries |
1908 |
| Rochester, George H. |
1941 |
| Rockcliffe |
1831, 1843, 1864, 1870, 1889, 1893, 1894, 1897, 1898, 1900, 1901, 1904, 1905, 1908, 1910, 1911 1914, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1931, 1933, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1944, 1945, 1953, 1954, 1957, 1964, 1971, 1978, 1994, see also RCAF
Station Rockcliffe, Canadian
Forces Base Rockcliffe, Ottawa Air
Station, Rockcliffe Airport, Rockcliffe Air Station, Rockcliffe Aerodrome |
| Rockcliffe Aerodrome |
1931 , 1934 , see also RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Canadian
Forces Base Rockcliffe, Ottawa Air
Station, Rockcliffe Airport, Rockcliffe Aerodrome |
| Rockcliffe Air Station |
1929 , 1943 , 1950 , see also RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Canadian
Forces Base Rockcliffe, Ottawa Air
Station, Rockcliffe Airport |
| Rockcliffe Airport |
1930, 1940, 1943, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1964, 1988, see also Ottawa
Air Station, Rockcliffe Air
Station, RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Canadian Forces Base Rockcliffe |
| Rockcliffe Bus Service |
1931, 1953, 1954 |
| Rockcliffe Emergency Shelter |
1946 |
| Rockcliffe Lawn Tennis Club |
1922 |
| Rockcliffe Lookout |
1923 |
| Rockcliffe Manor House |
1838 |
| Rockcliffe Park Crown Game Reserve |
1929 |
| Rockcliffe Park incorporated |
1926 |
| Rockcliffe Parkway |
1910 , 1952 , 1955 , 1988 , 2014 , see also Eastern Driveway |
| Rockcliffe Preparatory School |
1915 |
| Rockcliffe Pavilion |
1893 , 1917 |
| Rockcliffe Police Village |
1908 |
| Rockcliffe Rifle Range |
1898 , 1904, 1916, 1921, 1923 |
| Rockcliffe Ski Jump |
1910 , 1915 , 1920 , 1937 |
| Rockcliffe Streetcar |
1889, 1893, 1894, 1899, 1900, 1913, 1916, 1924, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1937, 1953 |
| Rockcliffe Streetcar Barn |
1900, 1907, 1927, 1932, 1937, 1940 |
| Rockeries Park, The |
1937 |
| Rockland Nationals Junior A Hockey Club (also see Ottawa M & W Rangers, Gloucester Rangers, Orléans Blues) |
2017 |
| Rockville |
1908 |
| Roger's House |
2006 |
| Roman Catholic |
1860 , 1988 , see also Convents, Seminaries |
| Ronald McDonald House |
1984 |
| Rotary Club of Orléans |
2008 |
| Rothwell Heights |
1951 , 1973 |
| Royal Air Force |
1918 |
| Royal Canadian Air Force |
1924 |
| Royal Canadian Legion |
1947 |
| Royal Canadian Mounted Police |
1912, 1920, 1939, 1948, 1953 |
| Royal Northwest Mounted Police |
1920 |
| Rural Routes |
1913 |
| Russell |
1933 |
| Russell County |
1800 |
| Russell Road |
1871 , 1920 , 1924 , 1933 , 1936 , 1940 , 1944 , 1948 , 1955, 1968, 1995 , 2022 |
|
| Safdie, Moshe |
1993 |
| St. Charles Home |
1966
|
| St. Charles Parish |
1909, 1926 |
| St. Charles Tennis Club |
1951 |
| St. Elias Church |
1991 |
| St. George's |
1902 |
| St. Jean, Ovide farm |
1946 |
| St. Jean Baptiste |
1929 |
| St. Jean Baptiste Society |
1909 |
| St. Jerome Catholic Elementary School |
2004 |
| St. Joseph |
1858, 1915, see also Orléans, St. Joseph d'Orléans |
| St. Joseph Boulevard |
1957, 1959, 1967, 1970, 1987, 2010, 2013, see also Highway
17 |
| St. Joseph d'Orléans |
1860, 1922, 1974, see also Orléans, St. Joseph |
| St. Joseph School (Cyrville) |
1974 |
| St. Joseph School (Orléans) |
1958 |
| St. Joseph's Orphanage known as Mount St. Joseph's Home for Disturbed Children from 1966 to 1970 |
1898, 1955, 1971 |
| St. Laurent Blvd.
(formerly Base Line Road) |
1948, 1950, 1960, 1961, 1967, 1984, 1990 |
| St. Laurent Cinemas |
1967 |
| St. Laurent Fire Hall |
1960 |
| St. Laurent Shopping Centre |
1967 , 1973 , 1987 , 1989 |
| St. Laurent, Louis |
1943 |
| St. Lawrence & Ottawa Railroad Bridge, New Edinburgh |
1875 |
| St. Lawrence River |
1783 |
| St. Lawrence and Ottawa Railway |
1887 |
| St. Louis Marie de Montfort Hospital |
1953 |
| St. Louis, Jean-Baptiste |
1830 |
| St. Louis Home for the Aged |
1966 |
| St. Patrick Street
Bridge |
1873, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1889, 1893, 1921 |
| St. Patrick's Home for the Aged |
1887 , 1964 |
| St. Regis |
1783 |
| St. Thomas Aquinas Separate School |
1906 , 1944 |
| Ste. Anne Avenue, Eastview |
1948 |
| Sand piles |
1941 |
| Sandpits |
1948 |
| Sandy Hill |
1898 , 2015 |
| Sandy Hill Bridge |
1865 |
| Sanitary Disposal Facilities |
1947 , 1948 , 1963 , 1964 , 1973 , 1977 |
| Sarsfield |
1945 |
| Savard, Marc |
1995 |
| Sawmills |
1823, 1830 |
| Sawmill Creek |
1823 , 1960 |
| Sawmill Creek Cycling Path |
2014 |
| Sawmill Creek Pool |
1976 |
| School boards |
1936 , 1965 , 1969 , 1998 |
| Schools |
1837, 1904, 1906, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1925, 1940 , 1941, 1944, 1945, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1983, 1991, 2004 |
| School Section Area 1 |
1945, 1962 |
| School Section Area 2 |
1945 |
| School Section 3 |
1945 |
| School Section 6 |
1945 |
| School Section 7 |
1945 |
| School Section 9 |
1945, 1956 |
| School Section 10 |
1945 |
| School Section 13 |
1962 |
| School Section 18 |
1962 |
| School Section 20 |
1962 |
| School Section 25 |
1916, 1945 |
| Science and Technology Museum |
1966, 1967, 2014, 2017 |
| Scott Act |
1863, 1878 |
| Scott, Richard William |
1863, 1878 |
| Seeman, T.A. |
1946 |
| Seguin, Jean |
1955 |
| Seminaries |
1938, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1970, 1975, 1978, 1985 |
| Séminaire des Père Blancs, Le |
1938 |
| Separate School Act |
1863 |
| Separate School Funding |
1984 |
| École élémentaire Séraphin-Marion |
1983 |
| Service clubs |
1968 , 1973, 1979, 1995, 2008 |
| Settler, first permanent |
1812 |
| Sewer explosion |
1929 |
| Sewer services |
1920 |
| Shaw, Grenville Hammerton |
1940 |
| Shefford Road |
1974 , 1975 , 2014 |
| Sheflin, Michael J.E. Bridge |
1985 |
| SHerwood 6 telephone exchange |
1952 |
| Shirley's Bay |
1921 |
| Shoppers City East |
1962 |
| Shopping centres |
1954, 1956, 1957, 1961, 1962, 1967, 1972, 1979, 1980, 1988, 1996 |
| Shop-Rite Foodmart |
1962 |
| Short, Samuel (Rockcliffe Councillor) |
1926 |
| Sidewalks |
1905 , 1919 , 1948 |
| Sieveright, James |
1850 |
| Silly Billy |
1793 |
| Silver City Cinemas |
1999 |
| Sinking Ship Entertainment |
2017 |
| Sir Galahad |
1901 |
| Sir Leonard Tilley Building |
1950 |
| Sisters of Wisdom Convent, Cyrville |
1916 |
| Skating clubs |
1903 , 1971, 1976 |
| Skead Road |
1929 , 1968 |
| Ski jumping |
1910, 1915, 1920, 1937, 1983 |
| Skiing |
1887, 1910 |
| Skyline Cablevision |
1983 |
| Smallpox |
1913 |
| Smiths Falls |
1935 |
| Smyth Road |
1844, 1944, 1948, 1974, 1980 |
| Smyth Road Bridge |
1966 |
| Snow family |
1905 |
| Snowstorms |
1869 |
| Social services |
1979 |
| Société franco-ontarienne du patramoine et de l'histoire d'Orléans
| 2013 |
| Softball |
1972 |
| Somerset Street East |
2015 |
| Soper, Warren J. |
1893 , 1908 |
| South Gloucester |
1834, 1865, 1913 |
| South Indian (now Limoges) |
1897 |
| South Keys |
2018 |
| South Keys Cinemas |
1997 |
| South Keys Pedestrian Bridge |
2014 , 2019 |
| South Keys Shopping Centre |
1980 , 1996 |
| Southam, Mr. & Mrs. H.S. |
1911 , 1944 |
| Southeast Transitway |
1996 |
| Southmount |
1928 |
| Spratt, Thomas Andrew |
1930 |
| Stagecoach services |
1834, 1880 |
| Stanley Avenue |
1827 , 1905 |
| Star-Top Drive-In Theatre |
1951 |
| Statues |
1901, 1902 |
| Statute labour |
1901 |
| Steinhardt, Laurence (U.S Ambassador) |
1950 |
| Storms |
1888 , 1909 , 1933 , 1936 , 1947 , 2018 , 2022 |
| Stornoway |
1914, 1940, 1950 |
| Strandherd-Armstrong Bridge |
2014 |
| Strathcona Park |
1898 |
| Street lights |
1912 , 1924 , 1948 |
| Streetcars |
1889, 1891, 1893, 1894, 1899, 1900, 1912, 1913, 1916, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1937, 1946, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1958, 1959 |
| Streetcar, first red |
1924 |
| Streetcar, last green |
1933 |
| Streetcar Route letters |
1931 |
| Strikes |
1919 |
| Stroud, Ray |
1955 |
| Suicide Hill |
1910 |
| Sunday shopping |
1992 |
| Sunday Streetcar service |
1899 |
| Superdome |
2004 |
| Survey completed |
1820 , 1849 |
| Survey, first |
1792 |
| Sussex Drive |
1837, 1870, 1893, 1907, 1939, 1954 |
| Sussex Drive Streetcar |
1954 |
| Sussex Street Subdivision |
1966 |
| Swans |
1967, 1974, 2006 |
| Swimming pools |
1951, 1967, 1971, 1976 |
| Synchronized swimming |
1977 |
|
| TAlbot 2 Telephone Exchange |
1958 |
| Tally-Ho Water and Soft Drinks |
1911 |
| Talmud Torah Hall |
1935 |
| Taverns |
1905 |
| Tax increase |
1989 |
| Taxis |
1941, 1998 |
| Taylor, Alf |
1974, 1998 |
| Tel-Aviv Tennis Club |
1935, 1936, 1958 |
| Telephone services/exchanges |
1907, 1911, 1922, 1937, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1956, 1958, 1963, 1966, 1988, 2006 |
| Telesat Canada |
1973 |
| Tele Transpo |
1987 |
| Temperance |
1878, 1911, 1916, 1918 , 1919, 1921, 1924, 1927 |
| Tenebaum Hotel |
1948 |
| Tennis |
1940, 1946 |
| Tennis clubs |
1912, 1914, 1919, 1922, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1935, 1936, 1942, 1951, 1952, 1958, 1968, 1971, 2001, 2017 |
| Terminal Avenue |
1948, 1923 |
| Terry Fox Athletic Facility |
1972, 1981 |
| Theatres |
1919, 1923, 1946, 1947, 1951, 1965, 1967, 1970, 1980, 1988, 1997, 1999 |
| Third Line |
1970 |
| Thunderbird Management Services Inc. |
2004 |
| Thunderdome |
2004 |
| Tilley, Sir Leonard, Building |
1950 |
| Timber raft |
1904 |
| Tollgates |
1871 , 1920 |
| Topographic mapping |
1920 |
| Tornados |
1972 , 1996 , 2018 , 2019 |
| Towers Discount Department Store |
1962 |
| Town Halls |
1909, 1915, 1950,
see also Township Halls, City
Halls |
| Towne Cinema |
1947 |
| Township B |
1792 |
| Township garage |
1977 |
| Township Halls |
1875, 1937, 1962, 2013, see also Town
Halls, City Halls |
| Township meeting, first |
1832 |
| Traffic circle |
2010 |
| Traffic lights |
1950 |
Trains |
see Railways |
| Tramway |
1889 |
| Transitway |
1983, 1987, 1989 , 1995 , 1996 , 2015 |
| Trans-Canada Airlines |
1938, 1939 |
| Tree Nurseries |
1948 , 1957 , 1966 |
| Trenton |
1941 |
| Tri-Services Hospital |
1961 |
| Trillium O-Train Line (also see O-Train, O-Train Line 2) |
2014 , 2015 |
| Trolley buses |
1951 , 1959 |
| Trueblood, Lt.Col W.F. |
1950 |
Tudin, Cornel "Connie/Conny" |
1949 |
| Tudor Hall (orignally Tudor Inn) |
1973 , 1999 |
| Tunney's Pasture |
1928 |
| TV Gloucester |
1983 |
| TV Ontario |
2017 |
| Typhoid epidemic |
1911 |
|
| UNESCO |
2007 |
| Unions |
1963 , 2001 |
| United Empire Loyalists |
1783 , 2001 |
| Uplands |
1948 , 1957 |
| Uplands Aerodrome |
1927 |
| Uplands Airport |
1927, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1950, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1967,
see also Hunt Club Field, Lindbergh
Field, Ottawa International
Airport, MacDonald-Cartier
International Airport. |
| Uplands Bus Lines |
1940, 1942, 1947, 1950 |
| Uplands Bus Route |
1951, 1960 |
| Uplands Emergency Shelter |
1947 |
| Upper Duck Island |
1860 |
| Upton farm |
1913 |
| Urbandale allotment gardens (see Pleasant Park Road allotment gardens) |
|
|
| Vachon, Alexandre, Archbishop of Ottawa |
1949 |
| Vachon, Marius |
1947 |
| Vanier |
1938, 1969, 1974, 1975, see also Janeville, Eastview |
| Vanier Cineplex |
1980 |
| Vanier City Hall |
1972, 1985, 2006 |
| Vanier Fire Department |
1985 |
| Vanier Museopark |
2006 |
| Vanier Parkway |
1975 , 1980 , 1993 |
| Vanier Police Department |
1985 |
| Vanier Public Library |
1948, 1976 |
| Vanier, Governor General Georges |
1969 |
| Vars |
1972 |
| Victoria Tennis Club |
1927 , 1928 , 1935 , 1942 , 1952 |
| Villa Madonna Retreat House |
1959 , 1970 |
| Villa St. Louis Convent |
1956 |
| Vincent Massey Park |
1958 |
| Viscount Monck |
1866 |
| Vrooman, George |
1951 |
|
| W. Clifford Clark Memorial Recreation Centre |
1959 |
| Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health |
2013 |
| Walkley Railway Yards |
1949, 1953, 1955 |
| Walkley Arena |
1963, 1991 |
| Walkley Road |
1940 |
| Ward 6 |
1950 , see also Clarkstown |
| Ward, Aaron |
1991 |
| Ward System |
1984 , 1985 |
| Washburn, Steve |
1993 |
| Wass Junction |
1914 , 1940 , 1953 |
| Water services |
1904, 1910, 1919, 1966 |
| Water skiing |
1979 |
| Water towers |
1953, 1984 |
| Watson farm |
1960 |
| Watson, Andrew D. (Rockcliffe Councillor) |
1926 |
| Whale bones |
1948 |
| Weatherall, Charles |
1930, 1948 |
| White bridge |
1913 |
| White, Howard Edward |
1922 |
| White Fathers Seminary |
1938, 1975, 1978, 1985 |
| White, L. |
1930 |
| Whiten, William |
1880 |
| Wilbrod Street |
1974 |
| William Frederick |
1793 |
| Willowdale Telephone Company |
1911 |
| Wind Tunnel |
1962 |
| Windsor Park Village |
1972 |
| Wireless |
1941 |
| Wolff, Mr. J.C.S. |
1924 |
| Women's Institutes |
1919 , 1952 |
| Wood, H.O. |
1919 |
| World Heritage Site |
2007 |
| World Records |
1943 |
| World War II |
1939 |
| Wright, Lionel |
1974 |
| Wright, Philamon |
1815 |
| Wrightville |
1908 |
|
| Young, Donald Sidney Thomson |
1940 |
| Youville Farm |
1885 |
|
| Zoning |
1956, 1959 |
|
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