NAC

~1945
2015
Snowed up Elgin Street in Ottawa around 1945
Snowed up Elgin Street in Ottawa in 2015
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Much wider Elgin Street and lost of several heritage buildings.
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This photo shows how snow removal was done in the streets of Ottawa around 1945.The landscape around Elgin Street was then quite different and the only still standing building in both photo is the Lord Elgin Hotel (1941).  The Laurentian Club, the Grand Union Hotel and the Aylmer Apartments (on...
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1938
2014
Slater Street with the former apartment buildings in Ottawa in 1938
Confederation Park and the concrete wall
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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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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....
1938
2013
Former section of Albert Street East of Elgin Street
West wall of the NCA
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This section of Albert Street, East of Elgin Street, completely vanished when Albert Street and Slater Street were turned into one-way traffic thoroughfare.   The NAC, from which we see one of its walls on the photo, sits now on that area of Centretown. ...
1938
2013
Elgin Street before the NAC
NAC on Elgin and Slater
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