Category: Heritage
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…
Richcraft gets deferral on demolition decision
The City of Ottawa’s Built Heritage Subcommittee was supposed to decide today on Richcraft’s proposal to dismantle and move the Bradley-Craig barn at 590 Huntmar, but they deferred the decision until the…
LETTER: City needs to strengthen heritage rules
(Photo: Bradley Craig barn on Hazeldean Road, October 2015. Photo by Barry Gray.) Increased urban sprawl into what once was prime agricultural land and thriving rural communities requires an ethical response…
Boyd House on Huntmar recommended for heritage designation
(Photo: Boyd House, Fall 2013. Photo by Glen Gower.) City planners are recommending that Boyd House, the old stone home at 173 Huntmar Drive, be designated as a heritage building.…
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…
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…
War of 1812 veteran Captain Bradley remembered at Beechwood Cemetery
(Above: The Bradley family headstone is at the left, the footstone of Captain William Brown Bradley and his son Sands Bradley and the plaque are located next to it. Photo…
Goulbourn Historical Society invites photo contest entries
(Bradley-Craig Barn, Hazeldean Road. Photo by Barry Gray.) The Goulbourn Historical Society’s 2015 Photo Contest is up and running and both youth and adults are encouraged to enter. There is…
Richmond Bakery sign to be auctioned off
(Richmond Bakery circa 2014. Photo via Google Streetview.) UPDATE, OCTOBER 8: The Goulbourn Museum’s Curator Manager Kathryn Jamieson sent along this note: “Goulbourn Museum wants to preserve the history of the…