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Lowertown East: Urban Renewal & The Aftermath

Ottawa Public Library Main Branch 120 Metcalfe St., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Mark Aubin, Author, 'Blight' The 1960s were a time when civic leaders were anxious to bulldoze the past to make way for the modern thruways and dazzling glass towers of the future. What chance did the families and businesses of a working class neighbourhood like Lowertown East have of standing in the way of "progress"? […]

Philemon Wright and his Town — The Historical Society of Ottawa

Ottawa Public Library Main Branch 120 Metcalfe St., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Join The Historical Society of Ottawa and Guest speaker Rick Henderson, the author of Walking in the Footsteps of Philemon Wright, and Capital Chronicles blog, and the great-great-great-great-grandson of Philemon Wright. Henderson paints an intimate portrait of the man and his family —  and of his dreams, struggles and successes as they carved a settlement […]

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