Aylmer Apartments

~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....
1940
2013
Parking lot behind Aylmer Appartments
Slater Street Ottawa
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Density and New-York Styke apartments replaced by a sterile park.
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1940
2013
Bates Appartments on Slater Street in Ottawa
Confederation Park and the concrete wall
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Apartments offering some density replaced by a boulevard and concrete.
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24 votes
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