Author: Glen Gower
COMMENT: Landmark barn needs to stay where it is
(Photo: Bradley-Craig Barn, October 2015. Photo by Barry Gray.) From a heritage perspective, moving the Bradley-Craig barn from Hazeldean Road to Munster is only a slightly better option than turning into…
Owner of Bradley-Craig barn wants to move it to Munster
(Photo: Bradley-Craig Barn, October 2015. Photo by Barry Gray.) On Monday, the City of Ottawa’s Built Heritage Sub-Committee will consider an application to dismantle the landmark Bradley-Craig barn on Hazeldean Road…
NOTEBOOK: Free ice cream & more, 6279 Fernbank, museum needs space
FREE STUFF! Lois & Frima’s is giving away free ice cream on Saturday, October 31. It’s become an annual tradition to clear out their buckets of ice cream before going…
NOTEBOOK: Dog park signage, voter turn-out, 6279 Fernbank
DOG PARK SIGNAGE Earlier this year we published a map of off-leash dog parks in Stittsville, using data pulled from the City of Ottawa’s web site. Recently, a reader pointed out that signage in…
HIGH & DRY: Stittsville’s prohibition-era Temperance Hotel
Next time you visit Quitters, have a close look at the brick building right next door on the corner of Orville Street. You can still see a faint line marking…
COMMENT: Anything can happen on election day
(Photo by Barry Gray.) I had a coffee the other day with one of Carleton’s federal election candidates and I asked him what he’d learned during the course of the campaign.…
Kemp Woodland includes trees over two centuries old
(ABOVE: Unveiling of the Kemp Woodland plaque. Left to right: Janet Mason (Ottawa Stewardship Council), Glen Carr (Sacred Heart High School), Phil Sweetnam (Stittsville Village Association), Councillor Shad Qadri, Wayne French…
NOTEBOOK: GRC pool legal action, Carp River work, community safety, more
Updates on stories we’ve been watching over the past few weeks… GOULBOURN REC CENTRE POOL The GRC pool re-opened in June after extensive repairs to fix structural deficiencies. We were wondering…
COMMENT: Happy first birthday to Quitters!
(ABOVE: Dog owners gather for a pack walk in front of Quitters last October. Quitters owner Kathleen Edwards is wearing a white shirt in the middle. Photo via Janet Burns /…
COMMENT: Ottawa lags behind in heritage funding
(Above: Dr. Bruce Elliott gives a tour of the St. John’s cemetery on Sandhill Road in Kanata.) The City of Ottawa needs to step up the resources it provides for preserving heritage…
COMMENT: More oversight needed on Carp River Restoration Plan
(Above: Carp River looking west from Maple Grove Road, August 2015.) A couple weeks ago we published an article called “Something Fishy with Carp River pathway plan”, outlining concerns about…
Crab apple tree leads archeologists to a lost farm near Tanger
(Above: This old crab apple tree just south of Tanger Outlets led archeologists to the site of a the 19th century Burroughs Farm. Photo by Glen Gower / September 2015.)…
Something fishy with Carp River pathway plan, say observers
(Above: A heron and ducks swim along the Carp River between Hazeldean and Maple Grove. This photo looks north towards Maple Grove from the Hazeldean Road Bridge.) After years of delay,…
Site of demolished home was once “Glen Eden”, home to champion Clydesdales
“WE BOUGHT A BEAUTIFUL SEVEN-GABLE FARMHOUSE ON THE PROPERTY IN 1975 with a view to upgrading it however, we found the frame too far gone. We have some photos and…
Thanks and good luck to our summer reporter, Jordan Mady
1/2 Thanks to @StittsCentral & @glengower for providing me the opportunity to cover one of the most exciting suburbs in Ottawa. #Stittsville — Jordan Mady (@jordantmady) August 14, 2015 2/2…