Early Days

Making way for the highway: How the Queensway came to Kitchissippi (plus bonus photos)

By Dave Allston - For the past fifty years, the Queensway has been a...

Top 10 Kitchissippi sites to visit during Doors Open Ottawa 2015

Editor's note: We asked local historian Dave Allston to come up with a top...

Did you know that Ottawa’s first mall was built in Kitchissippi?

By Dave Allston - As Westgate Shopping Centre turns 60 years old this week, it...

Did you know that Wellington Village was born under a circus tent?

By Dave Allston - Like most of Kitchissippi, Wellington Village began in its earliest days...

What does the future hold for Kitchissippi’s corner stores?

Earlier this year a new zoning amendment was proposed by the City of Ottawa...

Loss of life, loss of jobs

By Bob Grainger - On the morning of November 1, 1871, the residents of the...

All Saints’ Church celebrates 150? years in the heart of the village (plus bonus photos)

By Bob Grainger - On the second Tuesday of June 1865, there was a...

The devastation of early fires in Kitchissippi and the region

By Bob Grainger - Fire was a serious and ever-present fact of life in the...
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Home heating history in Kitchissippi, part two (plus bonus web-only content)

By Bob Grainger - Last month’s column was about the use of wood as a...

Home heating history in early Kitchissippi: Deadheads, house fires, and exploding chimneys

By Bob Grainger - In the latter part of the nineteenth century and the first...

This 101-year old company began with one great idea

It is hard to remember what used to exist on the northwest corner of...

A shaky start for Parkdale Market, 90 years ago

This summer the Parkdale Market became a nonagenarian; 90 years old and as lively...