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** UPDATE (JANUARY 25, 2014): ** Mystery revealed! Andrew has uncovered the name and the history of this ship. You can read about it here… [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/photo.jpg) Just before noon today, Andrew King sent me an email: _ “It’s not the beer train under Lebreton flats, but I have found something on Google Maps that could be very interesting. ...

Update: David Reevely has a bit more about the “Queen Street boneyard” on his blog . Work on Ottawa’s Light Rail Transit tunnel came to halt yesterday after workers found bones underground. https://twitter.com/OttawaCitizen/status/380739461552013312 https://twitter.com/onthebeat1/status/380713111080038400 https://twitter.com/onthebeat1/status/380740346314911744 https://twitter.com/ctvottawa/status/381020286671286273 This morning, local history buff Andrew King went to work, scouring Google for old maps and documents that might give some clues about where the bones came from. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/lcbo.png) I really like this photo of the LCBO warehouse on Bank Street near Walkley. Photographer Christopher Ryan researched a bit of history too: Ottawa's shiny new warehouse for the Liquor Control Board of Ontario opened at the end of April 1959. ...

We visited Pinhey’s Point on the weekend. It’s a historic site in Dunrobin, north of Kanata along the Ottawa River. What a great place to take some photos. Here are a few pics that I snapped in the parking area, before we even got near the old stone house. ...

Did you know that there’s an old movie theatre hidden above the Home Hardware building in the Glebe? The Avalon Theatre (later the Glebe Theatre) was open from 1928 to 1956. It has the distinction of being the first movie theatre in Ottawa to show films with sound . ...

[  ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/ottawastart/9380169726/) "Top of the World" Photo by [ Glen Gower ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/ottawastart/9380169726/in/pool-ottawastart) ** See also: ** Ottawa Tourism Guide If you liked this post, you should ** subscribe to etcetera , ** our free email newsletter. ...

Thanks to our Twitter follower Kokololamo who sent along this photo of street signs in New Edinburgh. Each sign gives some information about who the streets were named for. Here’s a photo showing the street signs for Dufferin Street (named after Canada’s Governor General from 1872-1878 ) and Chrichton Street, named for Anne Christine Chrichton, wife of Thomas Mackay , a stone mason and builder who was involved in the construction of the Rideau Canal. ...

I was driving down Slack Road in Nepean on the weekend and saw that the old schoolhouse is up for sale. Approx 2,000 square feet on a big lot, yours for only $950,000. ( Here’s the listing. ) A faded stone above the door has a name “S. ...

This note came in the other day from Ottawa sports historian Jim McAuley: _ Hi Folks, _ _ _ _ Our friend Glen Richardson is in a bit of a dilemma. _ _ You may know that Glen has a hobby of making mini chairs out of wooden hockey sticks. ...

[  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/talisman1.jpg) Japanese style garden at the center of the mystically-named Talisman Hotel on Carling Avenue. Source: [ CardCow.com ](http://www.cardcow.com/221344/talisman-motor-inn-ottawa-canada-ontario/) _ _ _ _ _ Do you follow Andrew King on Twitter ? ...