Dave Allston

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Early Days: How women’s hockey was started in Westboro

By Dave Allston The movie A League of Their Own brought to life the story...

Early Days: When Holland and Byron was mostly railways

By Dave Allston The intersection of Holland and Byron was for many years known...

Early Days: From Klondike to Westboro:How coal and lumber shaped western Ottawa

By Dave Allston Twenty years have passed since ground was broken for the Metropole...

Early Days: The forgotten legacy of Hintonburg’s first thrift store

By Dave Allston Ottawa Neighbourhood Services was once a Hintonburg mainstay. For nearly 90...

Early Days: Wartime history: Tracking down the “Hintonburg Howitzer”

By Dave Allston Somerset Square is in the heart of Hintonburg, a landmark meeting point...

The history of Mechanicsville: Forged through hard work for 50 years

By Dave Allston This year marks an incredible milestone in the history of Mechanicsville: 150...

The doctor is in: Meet Israel Goldwin Smith, Kitchissippi’s first doctor

By Dave Allston Like out of an old movie or storybook, late-Victorian era Hintonburg was...

Hampton-Iona’s history: Standard Bread and a community on the rise

by Dave Allston As shared in part one, by 1909, the future Hampton-Iona neighbourhood had...
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The early history of Hampton-Iona

By Dave Allston One of the historic hidden gems of Kitchissippi is the neighbourhood of...

Night soil and honey wagons: Kitchissippi’s role in early Ottawa sanitation

By Dave Allston Every home in Kitchissippi has a bathroom. Most probably have two or...

The tail of the Hampton Park lynx

By Dave Allston For a brief period a century ago, excitement—and probably a little bit...

Westboro’s renowned gun club of the early 1900s

By Dave Allston Some of the lesser-known events of the summer Olympics are the shooting...