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_ A weekly feature from Christopher Ryan , a local photographer, blogger and researcher. It appears every Friday on our blog. _ [  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/01-Dundonald-Sign-2013-.jpg) Somerset entrance to Dundonald Park (June 2013) Although Centretown cannot be characterized as a neighbourhood that is stuffed with green space, it is blessed with two well-used historic parks (among a number of others), roughly equidistant from either side of Bank Street. ...

A weekly feature from Christopher Ryan, a local photographer, blogger and researcher. It appears every Friday on our blog. Ask anyone in Centretown if they can name one apartment building, and chances are that a majority of them will come up with The Elphin. ...

_ A weekly feature from Christopher Ryan , a local photographer, blogger and researcher. It appears every Friday on our blog. _ [  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/01.jpg) Beer Store Detail. Photo by Christopher Ryan. [ ](http://ottawastart. ...

_ Here’s a guest post from Andrew King, artist, historian and storyteller. You can read more on this topic on his web site, Andrew King Studios . _ A restored World War II DeHavilland Mosquito will become the world’s second-only flying example, and it’s from Ottawa! ...

A weekly feature from Christopher Ryan, a local photographer, blogger and researcher. It appears every Friday on our blog. This apartment building, named The Gilbert Apartments, is located at 293 Lisgar Street and has lead a lonely life. Surrounded by surface parking lot since the 1970s, and currently boarded up, derelict, it is only a matter of time until it would face the same fate as the surrounding buildings. ...

Editor’s note: Here’s the first of a regular weekly feature on our blog from Christopher Ryan. I first encountered him earlier this summer on Instagam, where he has a very creative style of photography that usually eatures Ottawa buildings and landmarks . ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Club747_1.jpg) ** From the OttawaStart Community News feed : ** Club 747 will be holding its 30th Anniversary Reunion Dance Party Thanksgiving weekend, Saturday, October 12th, 2013, starting at 10:00 PM in Ottawa's unique city of Vanier at 333 Montreal Road (Concorde Motel). ...

From the OttawaStart Community News feed: It all started in 1963, with black-and white vignettes about the loon, the moose, the gannet and the beaver… Over five decades, Hinterland Who’s Who has inspired thousands of Canadians to connect with wildlife in many different ways. ...

Lots of history posts on our blog this week! Here’s an old newspaper ad from the Ottawa Journal on December 2, 1940. Hat tip to Christopher Ryan for digging this up! [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/BVCtEYWCEAEC3EO.jpg) CITIZENS OF OTTAWA TAKE NOTE: Any rumor that steel for the Lord Elgin Hotel will not be available until after the war is FALSE. ...

[  ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/15609463@N03/9942812543/) (Click image for full size.) UPDATE: I think it’s solved. OttawaStart reader David Adair (and several others) identified the building in the distance as the Dominican College at 96 Empress Avenue. ...