Category: Heritage
LETTERS: How the community built Stittsville’s rink
Andrew King reimagines the Bradley-Craig Farm
Does suburban commercial development always have to be so bland? Why do builders tend to bulldoze everything and start from scratch? What if we applied a bit of vision and imagination to…
PHOTO ESSAY: Johnny Leroux Arena turns 45 years old
The Johnny Leroux Stittsville Community Arena turns 45 years old this month. The first skate was on the evening of January 16, 1971, the result of a massive community effort to raise…
NOTEBOOK: Flewellyn-Jones house could be home to a PTSD wellness centre
Interesting discussion today at City Hall around the impacts of heritage designation, and a great example of a creative compromise. A group of seven therapists want to transform the Flewellyn-Jones…
BOYD HOUSE: The men with two graves (Part 6)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This ongoing series on Boyd House, an old stone farmhouse on Huntmar Drive, originally appeared a year ago on OttawaStart.com. We’re republishing and updating the original research here on StittsvilleCentral.ca.
Vintage Richmond Bakery sign uncovered during renovations
“Coolest find ever! Painted on the block under the old sign,” wrote Deb Mallett on a Richmond community Facebook group where this photo was posted. It was uncovered when the…
NUSSBAUM: Hazeldean road development ‘rather disappointing’
Here’s a transcript of two statements made by city councillors at last week’s Built Heritage Sub-Committee during a debate about the future of the Bradley-Craig farmstead. The first is from Tobi…
The true story of how Covered Bridge Brewing got its name
(Above: The covered bridge in West Carleton. Photo by Barry Gray.) Romantic, historic, picturesque. Idealized in story and movie, covered bridges have a special nostalgia about them. Of course, they…
COMMENT: Clearing up some misconceptions about Bradley-Craig heritage
(Photo: Barn at the Bradley-Craig farmstead, September 2015.) UPDATE: The heritage committee has rejected the proposal to move the barn. The demolition will now be considered at a Planning Committee…
Saunders Farm statement on Bradley-Craig barn
(press release via Saunders Farm) Our mission here at Saunders Farm is to create amazing fun, food and memories, and our vision is to be the most amazing family farm…
Flewellyn-Jones House on Fernbank up for heritage designation
IMAGINE YOU AND YOUR SPOUSE ARE NEWLYWEDS IN YOUR EARLY TWENTIES. You have a young child, maybe an infant, certainly no older than two years old, and you decide to…
St. Thomas gears up for 150th anniversary
(Above: Long-time church members William Passmore, chair of the 150th anniversary committee, along with Doreen Bell. Passmore has served as head of the Sunday School and has been part of…
MID-CENTURY MODERNIST: A look at the architecture of Amberwood Village
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This article comes from Saul Svirplys, a PhD candidate in Geography University of Ottawa. Svirplys blogs at Mid-Century Modern and 1970s-Era Ottawa, where this piece originally appeared. You can click on…
Richardson farmhouse to be turned into condo clubhouse
I’ve had a lot of people ask me if I knew what was happening with the old stone house at Terry Fox and Richardson Side Road in Kanata North. That’s…
ART OF THE POSSIBLE: Barn raising, not barn razing
If you’re having trouble picturing how a heritage farm could be incorporated into a modern suburban environment, a project in Surrey, B.C. might spark your imagination. Rempel Development Group, a company based…