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Christopher Ryan: Ceappy’s Connor Court

A weekly feature by Christopher Ryan, a local photographer, blogger and researcher. The entrance to the Connor Court Apartments, 250 O’Connor St. Photo: April 2014. O’Connor Street today is not normally one where we stop and smell the roses. The one-way street tends to be much quicker than Metcalfe, its counterpart to the east and as much of the traffic is bound for the Queensway, speed is the key. ...

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Christopher Ryan: A Wolf on Elgin Street (The Park Square apartments at 425 Elgin)

The entrance to the Park Square apartments, November 2013. A weekly feature by Christopher Ryan, a local photographer, blogger and researcher. It appears every Friday on our blog. It would be safe to suggest that Ottawa, at the national capital, experienced the depths of the Depression differently than much of the remainder of the country. ...

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Christopher Ryan: CD Howe books a permanent suite at the Belle Claire (Part 2)

A weekly feature by Christopher Ryan, a local photographer, blogger and researcher. It appears every Friday on our blog. There’s an old joke that goes something like “An official from Public Works and one from the National Capital Commission walk into a bar…” As with any number of establishments in Ottawa’s downtown in the immediate postwar period, by hook or by crook, the federal government’s insatiable appetite for office space shouldered them out of the picture. ...