Grand Union Hotel

07 mar
2015
Snowed up Elgin Street

Centretown

Aylmer Apartments, Laurentian Club, Grand Union Hotel, NAC, Elgin Street

~1945

2015

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National Capital Commission

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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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Former Union Station with Corry Block

Centretown

Union Station, Corry Block, Grand Union Hotel

~1915

2014

Former Union Station in Ottawa with Corry Block

Former Union Station in Ottawa without Corry Block

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Library & Archives Canada

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Title: Union Station, Ottawa, Ont. Reference number: 3325401

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Train station is now in suburbia. Urban car interchange has replaced the Corry Block.

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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...