Alexandra Bridge

14 oct
2013
Streetcars, Rails & Locks

Byward Market

Major Hill Park, Alexandra Bridge, Ottawa River, Rideau Canal, locks, streetcar

~1915

2013

Locks of the Rideau Canal when rails were still running along Major Hill Park.

Locks of the Rideau Canal without the rails

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Removal of the rail road link between Ottawa & Hull.

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This photo shows the rails that were going underneath Sappers and Dufferin Bridges before reaching Union Station. The rails are long gone and it really looks like they have left it "as is" (abandoned) since then....

10 mai
2013
Hull from Nepean Point - II

Hull

Ottawa River, Alexandra Bridge, Notre-Dame Church

~1910

2013

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The church on the right is the Notre-Dame Church which was demolished in 1971....

09 mai
2013
Alexandra Bridge from the Nepean Point Footbridge

Byward Market

Alexandra Bridge, Hull, Nepean Point

1938

2013

Hull and the Alexandra Bridge from the former pedestrian bridge

St. Patrick street and Alexandra Bridge.

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This comparison is not the best we have ever done for a reason as simple as that the footbridge from which the original photo had been taken has been demolished decades ago....