Category: Articles
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John Howard Society’s new building – plans progress
By Sue Stefko (Appeared in the Glebe Report, October 2019) The initial goal of starting construction in fall 2019 will not be met, but there has been plenty of progress on 289 Carling Avenue, the site of the future supportive-housing building and headquarters for the Ottawa John Howard Society (JHS). One major step was the…
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Community Engagement for the Ottawa Hospital Campus Expansion
By Bhagwant Sandhu and Sue Stefko, Campus Engagement Group members (Appeared in the Glebe Report, September 2019) After many years of back and forth decision-making, the three levels of government jointly announced in 2016 that The Ottawa Hospital’s Civic campus would be replaced by a new facility at the eastern side of the Central Experimental…
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The original annexation of the Glebe Annex
By Sue Stefko(Appeared in the Glebe Report, October 2018) What Ottawa looked like in 1889, in the aftermath of the annexation and introduction of the newly created Dalhousie Ward. Source: Ottawa: An Illustrated History by John T Taylor, Lorimer Publishing Jan. 1986, page 114. While the term the “Glebe Annex” is a relatively recent one,…
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The History of Ottawa’s streetcars in the Glebe Annex Neighbourhood
By Sue Stefko (Appeared in the Glebe Report, June 2018) Ottawa’s first electric streetcars were launched in 1891 and were soon to replace the system of horse drawn cars and sleighs which had served Ottawa’s transportation needs since 1870. The electric streetcar lines started quite modestly – on the system’s inception in 1891, there were just…
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Ottawa’s Great Fire of 1900 – Another Close Call for what is now the Glebe Annex
By Sue Stefko (Appeared in the Glebe Report, May 2018) An earlier article explained how what is now the Glebe Annex area was spared the great fire of 1870. (In essence, the waters of Dow’s Lake were allowed to flow to the Ottawa River at Preston St., creating a moat type of effect, helping to…
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The Ottawa Valley’s Great Fire of 1870 –or– How Dow’s Lake saved Ottawa
By Sue Stefko (Appeared in the Glebe Report, April 2018) When the people of Ottawa reflect upon the great fire, the vast majority think of the 1900 fire that started in Hull and tore through Lebreton flats down to Dow’s Lake. However, many people do not realize that an earlier, much larger fire, the Ottawa…
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History of Dalhousie South Park
By Sue Stefko (Printed in the Glebe Report January 15, 2016) It started as many projects do – with the effort and enthusiasm of a small group of dedicated, hard-working people. And, like many other opportunities, it was an opportunity borne out of a crisis. The crisis arrived in the form of a delinquent landlord,…