Woods Buildings

29 jll
2014
Slater Street and Rideau Canal

Centretown

Slater Street, Elgin Street, NAC, Woods Buildings, Aylmer Apartments, Bates Apartments, Confederation Park

1938

2014

Confederation Park and the concrete wall

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National Capital Commission

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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....

29 avr
2014
Former Woods and Bates Apartments

Centretown

Woods Buildings, Confederation Park, Bates Apartments

~1950

2014

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Library & Archives Canada

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Apartments offering some density replaced by a boulevard and concrete.

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Bates Apartements, on the right-hand side on the photo, were sacrificed in order to connect both sides of the Rideau Canal. To increase car traffic in to core, Slater and Albert Streets were turned into one-way streets and united in triangular fashion to form the Mackenzie-King bridge.Jacques Gréber who was...

26 nov
2013
Slater Street & Elgin Street

Centretown

Postcard, Confederation Park, Woods Buildings, Slater Street, Elgin Street

~1910

2013

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Attic Postcards

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Demolition of New-York style apartment buildings. Widening of Elgin Street.

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The two towers that are shown on the postcard are the Wood Apartments which were located on Slater Street (unlike what is written on the postcard).In 1938, Elgin Street was widen which sacrificed the first row of buildings East of Elgin Street. About twenty years later, the implementation of the...