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30 jll
2014
Grand Hotel & Former Post Office
2014
Title:
Untitled.
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No reference number provided.
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+3
More density and maturity.
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+2.0
122 votes
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The buildings in the front of the archive photo were the Grand Hotel and the former post office. They were both sacrified to make room for the Rideau Centre....
29 jll
2014
Slater Street and Rideau Canal
2014
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Untitled.
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-3
New-York style apartment buildings replaced by a park which sits empty most of the time.
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-0.4
85 votes
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Back in the day, before Gréber, Slater Street was reaching the Rideau Canal.The apartment buildings, now demolished, were the Bates, Aylmer and Woods Apartments.The direct link between the Queen-Elizabeth Drive and Elgin Street has been removed when the NAC took over....
27 jll
2014
Former Union Station with Corry Block
2014
Title:
Union Station, Ottawa, Ont.
Reference number:
3325401
We gave it a
-2
Train station is now in suburbia. Urban car interchange has replaced the Corry Block.
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Visitors's vote
-1.6
101 votes
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Almost nothing has changed on the building of the former Union Station, besides the "Union Station" words at the top of the main entrance.The building on the left was the Corry Block and it has been demolished to make room for this urban onramp linking Mackenzie Avenue and Colonel By...
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27 jll
2014
Former Union Station with Colonel By Drive
2014
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Untitled.
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We gave it a
+2
The site gain in maturity.
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Visitors's vote
+0.9
152 votes
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When the archival photo was taken, bad things had already happened: the Central Train Station has been moved to the suburbs and the Corry Block had been demolished to provide road link between Mackenzie Avenue and the new Colonel By Drive (formerly Little Sussex). Since those major configuration changes ,...
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