Jacques Greber

Comparisons: LeBreton Flats old and new: http://en.alexandrelaquerre.com/tag/lebreton-flats/288/

7 Lost Tourist Attractions 

Stop 8: Old Wellington past Booth Street

JR Booth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:City_of_Ottawa_Insurance_Plan_1888-1901_2_of_113.jpg

Stop 9: Albert Street and (former) Broad Street

Thomas Wilson – Profile: http://inventorsassociation.homestead.com/IAOSuccessful.html

http://www.westsideaction.com/actual-treasure-map-to-the-beer-train-tunnel-under-albert-street/

http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2012/11/22/graphic-brewery-train-discovered-in-tunnel/

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Thomas Ahearn

http://inventorsasso

ciation.homestead.com/IAOSuccessful.html

Stop 11: Site of old Wellington Street Viaduct – near O-Train

http://urbsite.blogspot.ca/2012/11/wellington-viaduct-scott-street.html

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Character: E.P. Taylor

Biography  - Full Book on Google Books

Stop 5: Pooley’s Bridge – near Fleet Street Waterworks

http://www.ottawagraphy.ca/bayfpeople/pooley-henry

Stop 6: Old Wellington and Commissioner Street

NannyGoat Hill

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorne_Greene

Lisgar Student’s reminiscences of Greene.

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Section 1: Downtown Wellington

• Stop 1: Corner of Bank and Wellington Street
  • Colonel John By
• Stop 2: Corner of Wellington Street and Lyon
  • Nicholas Sparks
• Stop 3: Wellington Street near Bay Street – Garden of the Provinces and Territories
  • Edward Bennett

Section 2: Escarpment – “Victoria Terrace”

• Stop 4: Old Wellington Street – bottom of Sparks Street alignment
  • Eddy Plunkett Taylor
• Stop 5: Pooley’s Bridge – near Fleet Street Waterworks
  • Lieutenant Henry Pooley
• Stop 6: Old Wellington and Commissioner Street
  • Lorne Greene

Section 3: Lebreton Flats

• Stop 7: Old Wellington and Transitway
  • Jacques Greber
• Stop 8: Old Wellington past Booth Street
  • JR Booth
• Stop 9: Albert Street and (former) Broad Street
  • Thomas Wilson

Section 4: The Missing Link

• Stop 10: Albert Street and City Centre
  • Thomas Ahearn
• Stop 11: Site of old Wellington Street Viaduct – near O-Train
  • You

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Stop 2: Corner of Wellington Street and Lyon

Stop 3: Wellington Street near Bay Street – Garden of the Provinces and Territories

Bennet Plan for Ottawa from 1915

Growth of Ottawa Urban Area: animated http://denvan.ca/wp/growth-of-ottawa-1810-1945/

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Section 1: Downtown Wellington

• Stop 1: Corner of Bank and Wellington Street
  • Colonel John By
• Stop 2: Corner of Wellington Street and Lyon
  • Nicholas Sparks
• Stop 3: Wellington Street near Bay Street – Garden of the Provinces and Territories
  • Edward Bennett

Section 2: Escarpment – “Victoria Terrace”

• Stop 4: Old Wellington Street – bottom of Sparks Street alignment
  • Eddy Plunkett Taylor
• Stop 5: Pooley’s Bridge – near Fleet Street Waterworks
  • Lieutenant Henry Pooley
• Stop 6: Old Wellington and Commissioner Street
  • Lorne Greene

Section 3: Lebreton Flats

• Stop 7: Old Wellington and Transitway
  • Jacques Greber
• Stop 8: Old Wellington past Booth Street
  • JR Booth
• Stop 9: Albert Street and (former) Broad Street
  • Thomas Wilson

Section 4: The Missing Link

• Stop 10: Albert Street and City Centre 
  • Thomas Ahearn
• Stop 11: Site of old Wellington Street Viaduct – near O-Train
  • You

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Okay, so it’s not exactly street food – or even tasty coffee for that matter. But this guy was selling $1.50 Styrofoam cups of coffee  and hot chocolate off his back this morning outside the Tunney’s Pasture OC Transpo bus station.

I shelled out $2.00 – including a tip – and talked to the guy. And in a thick Russian accent, he told me this was a new concept in coffee vending. I never finished mine, since I was heading downtown and near some decent coffeeshops. But has anyone else seen this out on the mean streets of Ottawa?

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iPhone time-lapse video: 2012 Ascension Christmas Pageant rehearsal

Two hours of chaos in one and a half minutes with a great acapella vocal group doing a Manhattan Transfer style version of Carol of the Bells. Love how this turned out.

iPhone time-lapse video: artist Jennifer Shepherd shooting a video

I recently did some work with artist Jennifer Shepherd of Living Tapestries and Susan Murphy of SuzeMuse.com and Jester Creative to shoot a concept video for Industry Canada’s Canada Business group on how to start a business. We wanted to try a different approach for this video – more fun and whimsical than your average government information package. I’ll share the final product when it’s public.

But as a fun way of capturing the process and camera set up, I shot this time lapse of Jenniferat work on one of the drawings.

iPhone time-lapse video: prefab house being delivered in Wellington Village area.

Cool to see how they do this, but the timpe-lapse video ended up being kind of shaky. So maybe this one isn’t ready for iMax yet.

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Link to image here.

Here’s the real reason Sandy visited NY. It was that T-Shirt. Feel free to share it, Facebook it, Pin it, Instagram it, whatever you like.

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I was all gooey and weak in the knees listening to Mitt Romney tonight during the final debate with Barack Obama. He. Is. Dreamy. (sigh) But tonight, and through the whole campaign, I was also struck by how many progressive, modern ideas Mr. Mittens has – about women, Muppets, the 47% of Americans who mooch off the system, that kind of stuff.

But his brilliant plan to measure American military capacity by the lofty standards of 1916 –  bayonets, horses, gunboats, and all? Pure un-bindered genius! Then it occurred to me: why, this guy doesn’t just have a LOT of ideas. He has BINDERS full of them.

So I give you. Mitt Romney’s secret idea binder…

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