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Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Live Presentation "Ottawa's Shoreline ... Built from Garbage?" this Saturday!

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I am honoured to be making a live presentation this Saturday for the Historical Society of Ottawa. The talk can only be heard in-person at t...
Friday, January 12, 2024

The Story of Sam Gordon - Memorable Early Westboro Teacher

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(This is the first of what I hope will be a series of articles about life in Westboro in the 1850s) Today Westboro is home to many large sch...
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Tuesday, December 12, 2023

A 1940s Christmas at Byron House

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For the December issue of the Kitchissippi Times, I've written about a local history story that has unfortunately become lost to time.  ...
Sunday, December 3, 2023

Kitchissippi's Heritage over the last 20 years & the urgency of what's coming next

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My November article for the Kitchissippi Times is an important one. I usually cover a single topic or event for the Times, but this month, a...

How garbage helped build the parkway and saved Mechanicsville

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This fall, I wrote a two-part column for the Kitchissippi Times on how garbage was used to fill in three bays on the Ottawa River, between M...
Thursday, September 14, 2023

Creating land: How the City's garbage became the new Ottawa River shoreline

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lookng east from Bayview, November 1962 (source: City of Ottawa Archives, CA-8684) While conducting research for my book on Mechanicsville, ...
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Monday, June 12, 2023

Goodbye 226 Carruthers Avenue - A profile

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October 2020 - Google Streetview My recent article on 50-52 Armstrong was quite popular, so I thought I might do another similar write-up on...
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